Living in the Material World is a fitting, sonorous tribute to the pop idol, movie producer, spiritual searcher and constant gardener
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It's All About the D'Oh: Is This the Way The Simpsons Should End?
The TV news-o-sphere has been buzzing for the last day or so about reports that Fox has threatened to stop producing new episodes of The Simpsons if its voice actors do not accept a substantial—as in, nearly by half—pay cut. Considering that the show has been one of TV’s biggest successes since it began life as a cave painting at …
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A.C. Nielsen, Godfather of TV Ratings, Dead at 92
Some might say that TV is too much a business of bean counters, but Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., who died Monday, was perhaps the most culturally influential bean counter of them all. Because, after all, the beans whose counting he revolutionized were all of us.
TV is a commercial business, and shows (excepting public TV) are on the air …
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Glee Watch: Gotta Dance!
In my review that posted earlier this morning, I neglected to mention one of the biggest reasons to root for the success of American Horror Story. It could give Ryan Murphy a full-time distraction, so that the new team of writers can get Glee under control, free from the need to throw in more and more insanity to fend off the boredom …
Dancing with the Stars Results, Week Three: Kristin Cavallari Gets a Reality Check
Welcome to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap, where we’ve barely dried our eyes from Monday night’s weepathon.
Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace knows politics. Her new novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman plucked from relative obscurity became Vice President of the United States
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TV Tonight: American Horror Story
Friends, I am not here today to argue that American Horror Story is, if I may use a critical-theory term, “good.” At least if one judges it by such factors as coherence, consistency or plausibility of characters’ motivations. The new series (FX, Wednesdays) comes from producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Like their current show, …
On Set With Audrey Hepburn
A behind-the-scenes look at the star of Breakfast At Tiffany’s fifty years after the release of the actress’ most famous film
When We Was Fab: George Harrison
George Harrison died ten years ago today. TIME takes a look at the quiet, peaceful Beatle.
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The Rabbit Done Died: NBC Kills Playboy Club, Adds Brian Williams
As the 2011-12 TV season begins its third week, it has claimed its first victim: NBC’s The Playboy Club, whose ratings plunged as low as its necklines, has been cancelled.
Playboy was one of the most hyped new fall shows this year, though the attention was hardly all positive; Gloria Steinem, some local affiliates and groups like the …
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Elsewhere on Time.com: Dancing Every Week
As I like to say, there’s one thing you have to give TV credit for: there’s a lot of TV on it. Too much for me to review, or even acknowledge, as one man with one blog. But if you have not noticed, my colleagues at Time.com’s NewsFeed have been beefing up their weekly TV coverage lately, today’s example being Melissa Locker’s recap of …
Dancing with the Stars Recap, Week Three: The Episode Where Everyone Cries
Welcome back to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap. Today’s theme: There Will Be Tears.
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Are You Ready for Some Hitler? ESPN Benches Hank Williams Jr. After Obama Comparison
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As country singer and Monday Night Football jinglemaster Hank Williams Jr. learned yesterday, Godwin’s Law is real, and there are penalties for violating it. Appearing on Fox News’ Fox and Friends to talk politics, the conservative Williams, in a rambling interview, criticized Speaker …