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OK, New Year’s Day is actually tomorrow. I am posting this nonetheless because:
* It is New Year’s Eve, and why are you on the Internet at all but to blow a few minutes on a diverting music video from the ’80s
* I am old, and this U2 video reminds me of a time when I was younger, …
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Having spent a lot of time this past couple of weeks looking back on 2010 here, it’s time to look forward. TV doesn’t have the same kind of lead time that, say, movies do: this time last year, we did not know what the broadcast fall schedules would be, or that Conan O’Brien would end the year with a talk show on a different network …
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We’ve covered the best and the worst of TV in 2010: now for the biggest. After the jump, a selected list of some of the stories that shaped TV (and by which TV shaped the culture) in 2010, and your invitation to suggest more:
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You may not believe it to read this blog, but I do other things besides watch TV and write about it. (Eat and sleep, for instance!) And Tuned In’s readers, I know, are diverse and catholic in their interests too. So I’m throwing open this discussion robo-post for you to talk about your favorite works of any medium—Books, movies, music, …
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When the iPad was first announced early this year, I wrote a post explaining why, media junkie and Apple acolyte that I am, I was not running out yet to buy one. If you had “eight months” in your betting pool as to how long it would take me to finally cave, you win.
I had my reasons. I was taking a trip (the trip I am on right now) to …
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In retrospect, it’s surprising the idea wasn’t done earlier: if you want someone to deliver a Christmas Past, Present and Future, you could do worse than Doctor Who. Tomorrow (Christmas Day) at 9 p.m. E.T., BBC America debuts Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, a stand-alone update of the …
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A 1920s gangster, a football coach (and maybe not the one you’re thinking of), a therapy patient in a strange land. Like my list of great TV quotes from 2010, this one is incomplete in the extreme. But think of it as a starting point for discussion, and in the comments, let the rest of us know: what do you say were TV’s best …
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This time at the end of every year, critics put together our lists: best episodes, best shows, worst shows. But when the year is done, it’s the little moments that stick with you: the small scenes, and the perfect lines.
After the jump, here are a few of my favorite quotes from the last year of TV. Because there’s so much out …
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Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off—and brief thoughts on the preview of NBC’s Perfect Couples—coming up:
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Last year around this time, I invented a new kind of TV award, or perhaps “award.” Like a lot of critics, I always list the best shows of the year, and the worst. But that inevitably leaves out a certain, often more interesting, group of shows: not mediocre ones, but shows that have ambitions that, for various reasons, they don’t manage …
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At the end of the year, we all take a moment to celebrate that which has been greatest and most uplifting in human endeavor. Then we get bored of all that feel-good crap, and it’s time to bash things. Tuned Inlanders, hoist a tomato with me and toast the Worst TV Shows of 2010!
I focused here on shows that stood out for being …
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It’s December, and you know what that means: from now through the New Year, it’s time for you to get a well-deserved break from having to read my posts so frequently!
But you’re not getting off that easily. While I’ll be on vacation, I’ll probably post occasionally from the road over the next couple of weeks. More important, I have …
Before there were motion-controlled sensors, online gameplay and the whatnot, we saved up quarters and headed down to the local arcade. In a fit of nostalgia, TIME named its top 10 favorite arcade titles.
