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The ABC publicity department wants none of us to get any work done today, because yesterday it posted two publicity stills of the cast of Lost re-creating Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Bigger versions of the photos (apologies for the right-hand column overrunning them; if I can get it cleaned up while retaining the full-size …
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Running against the entertainment-industry maxim that it is usually better business to take the depth out of television, several media companies are announcing efforts to launch 3D TV channels, the New York Times reports. Discovery, Imax and Sony are partnering on a channel, and ESPN …
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ABC keeps lighting off new editions of The Bachelor, one off the other, like a chain smoker copping lights off the embers of his last butt. In the latest edition, pilot Jake became the last Bachelor/ette hopeful to fail to “find love” on one edition of the series, only to find a much dearer prize: his own TV show. What lucky woman will …
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I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, but sometime this month Apple is likely to announce its giant iTouch, which will singlehandedly make people fall in love with reading again, persuade them to pay money for electronic publications and thus save journalism. Crisis over! Problem solved! Screw all you guys, I’m going to be rich …
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It seems like just a year ago that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was disgraced in a corruption scandal and making a tour of the media to try to restore his name. Oh, wait: it was just a year ago. Last summer, Blago tried to enlist on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here (his wife took the bullet instead). And now, the Pol Who …
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Lou Dobbs has floated a run for Senate (or President), Glenn Beck is touting a “100 year plan” for America, and Sarah Palin gave up running Alaska to go on a book tour. In the latest print TIME, my Tuned In column asks whether, in this midterm election year, a media platform may be a better route to political power than, like, actually …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s special episode of Iron Chef America coming up after the jump:
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Happy New Year! And welcome to the Tens, or the Teens, or the Teenies, or whatever the hell we’re going to call them! More important, congratulations on making it through the last decade, which some newsmagazine termed The Decade from Hell.
As you’ll recall, the previous decade began …
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
This completes Robo-James’ interregnum as vacation host of Tuned In. Commence celebrating your …
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