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God help me, I think I actually agree with the Parents Television Council on an issue involving the FCC.
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve rarely seen eye-to-eye with the “broadcast decency” advocacy group, which has (among other things) spearheaded efforts to police the content of primetime TV. The reason: I’m all for …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, strap yourself it, hang on to your panic button, and watch last night’s Lost.
The nine remaining Idol finalists sang their way through the Lennon-McCartney songbook in this week’s competition. Did they take sad songs and make them better? What would you think if they sang out of tune? Click on the gallery below and try to see it my way:
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Maybe the most significant piece of video to come out this week was not on television—not originally—but from the website wikileaks.org. The video, which TIME’s Mark Thompson analyzes here, shows the pilot’s-eye view as, in July 2007, a U.S. Apache helicopter in Baghdad shot and …
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OK, not totally seriously. But a tiny bit.
Back when I wrote a cover story about Jay Leno coming to primetime on NBC, the big macro-point was that The Jay Leno Show was a dramatic example of how TV was changing in a time of fragmentation and decline. Big networks, to oversimplify, are becoming more like cable, looking for ways to …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s episode of Chuck coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
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There was plenty of TV last week that I’m not going to get around to catching up on, but the midseason return of Fringe, “Peter,” was probably my favorite episode since “There’s More Than One of Everything,” and it deserves at least a quick notice. (Spoilers ahead.)
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I’m back from staycation, and big thanks to Steven James Snyder for going above and beyond the call with a wide-ranging series of guest posts last week, on top of his work at Techland. But party’s over now, kids—it’s back to your regularly scheduled half-assed mediocrity with yours truly. Here’s some of what I missed in …
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Someday, after I wash out of journalism, I am going to go into the lawnmower business. I am going to invent a really awesome, beautifully sculpted lawnmower. I will convince the press that my lawnmower will save their imperiled business model. Then I can sit back, relax, and watch news outlets fall over themselves to liveblog the day my …
It’s been a fun week, interjecting on Jim’s behalf, but I do believe our fearless hero is returning in just a couple days, so my brief tenure has come to an end. Party’s over, and I’ll make my way to the exit.
But if you’ll permit me a final, random post, I’d love to toss three items at you, as suggestions for archive …
Back on Tuesday night, I had a surprising revelation.
Around 6 p.m. I rushed in the rain to a screening of Clash of the Titans, ready to get a face full of the Kraken (you can read my full take on the film over at Techland). But on the subway ride home – after a film that was probably about 30 minutes too long, and easily 15 minutes …
Love her or hate her, we saw a side of Sarah Palin last night that must have caught observers at every end of the spectrum by surprise.
That would be her boring side.
And while some of us thought that America was going through tough times – what with towering unemployment, bank bailouts and a tidal wave of foreclosures – it turns …
