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TIME’s annual collection of top-10 lists is up, including my list of the Top 10 TV Shows of 2010. (Also up is my list of Top 10 TV Episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.)
After the jump, I’ll post my complete list, along with a partial list of honorable mentions. But first a couple caveats. Number one: This is not the …
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Tuned In’s sister blog Techland covers a couple of TV-biz stories with a common, unstated theme: the slow but gradual fading of TV as something you get exclusively through TV networks on a TV set. First, HBO (like TIME, a Time Warner company) is considering offering its programming through other means besides as part of a cable TV …
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Spoilers for last night’s Modern Family coming up:
“Dance Dance Revelation” was an amusing but not stellar Modern Family, hobbled by the title storyline involving Claire and Gloria’s rivalry as school-dance organizers. I know some people find Claire overly shrill and grating as a character; I don’t, and I actually think that Julie …
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Spoilers for this week’s finale of season three of In Treatment coming up:
Those of us who were particularly anxious to find out the resolution of Sunil’s story on In Treatment had to wait a little longer this week, as HBO pulled a switcheroo and aired the final Frances session first. And, we soon learned, that wasn’t the only …
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Last week, we learned via WikiLeaks that the U.S. State Deparment had produced a cable analyzing trends of anti-Americanism in Canadian TV. But it now appears that the U.S. has an offensive as well as defensive posture on televisual warfare—and not just in Canada, which we’ve been bombing into submission with our sitcoms and dramas …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
The title of Glee‘s last episode of 2010, “A Very Glee Christmas,” pretty much said it all for me. There was no special significance to the title except to reference the very, very, very often-referenced “A Very Brady Christmas” and to send the message: This is a Christmas episode of Glee! You …
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I was not expecting to automatically like TNT’s Men of a Certain Age when it debuted last year, not having been a huge fan either of Everybody Loves Raymond nor of most of TNT’s scripted schedule. But the show turned out to be a huge, if modest and low-key, surprise. (Really it should be in the TV dictionary under “modest and …
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The Most Important Television Event of Our Era, the a cappella battle The Sing-Off, returned last night to NBC with its three judge panel, Nick Lachey and this time ten entrants showcasing the diversity and lovable dorkiness of singing without instruments. Who’s a threat? Who’s going …
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Sadly but not surprisingly, FX has decided not to renew Terriers for a second season. The emotionally satisfying thing to do would be to pretend that FX is run by idiot philistines who blindly killed a show that was on the verge of becoming a hit. But it would not be the honest thing.
Terriers was a character-driven private-eye show …
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“Dandy” Don Meredith, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback turned Monday Night Football color commentator, has died of a brain hemorrhage at age 72. I’m not enough of a football fan (or old enough) to remember well his run with the early Cowboys, and my fondest TV memory of him may have …
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Spoilers for the season finale of Boardwalk Empire coming up:
Lead TV characters often develop a signature move over time: a gesture or expression that comes to define them. Think Ralph Kramden’s gesturing into the air on The …
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Spoilers for the season finale of The Walking Dead coming up:
Because it had to create a first season of only six episodes so that AMC could air its first season starting Halloween, The Walking Dead had to fit a lot into a few …
Dance involves movement across space and time—something that the cinema does very well. TIME presents the most memorable dance scenes in film history.
