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TV’s reigning best sitcom, Parks and Recreation, returns tonight with the episode the rest of season 3 has been building toward: the Parks department attempts to pull off the Harvest Festival, on which its future depends. I don’t want to spoil much about what is the season’s best episode …
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Having given the Internet public 15 years to get good and hooked on reading it free online (excepting the brief TimesSelect foray into partial online subscriptions), the New York Times will start charging for digital access to its news March 28. (Except in Canada, where our lucky northern neighbors get to test out the pay system …
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Last night’s Top Chef All-Stars is still on a low simmer on my DVR, so I thought I’d throw open this morning’s Morning After Post for your comments on it, and the season in general. Was the beach competition worth it, or a stunt too far? (Ditto Padma Lakshmi’s appearance in a bikini.) And as the show finally closes in on its finale, …
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This week, American Idol‘s dozen remaining finalists sang songs from the year they were born — some of those dates being in the mid-’90s, making your faithful reviewer feel like Grampa Simpson’s older brother. What’s with these whippersnappers and what they call “music” nowadays? Click the pix to find out:
In March 2011, Rebecca Black’s epically bad song “Friday” went viral. TIME cataloged other tunes with nonsense verses.
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The entertainment-biz press, led by a report in Deadline.com, has the news this morning that Netflix may be about to acquire a high-profile original drama—political thriller House of Cards from David Fincher and Kevin Spacey—by outbidding the likes of HBO. Does this mean, if the deal pans out, that Netflix wants to become a TV …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
Whether Glee is in the middle of a strong or shaky set of episodes, powerful or ridiculous storylines (or both at once), it usually manages to get things together for its regional/sectional competition episodes. It’s the opposite of what one might think, because the demands of those …
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If you take a guy known for making outrageous jokes—like his notorious remarks at the Friars Club three weeks after 9/11—and hire him as the voice of your adorable duck mascot, you’re taking a risk. Particularly if you’re an insurance company, and you do business that may directly involve enormous tragedies. Aflac discovered that …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Bachelor coming up:
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Been watching Conan O’Brien’s new TBS show but long for those early rebel days when he was unemployed? When the beard was new and we were young and his career became an act of improvisation? When he was an outsider and only you and the five jillion people who followed him on Twitter …
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It has become a cliché by now to declare that any awful event is “the first YouTube disaster,” “the coming of age of Twitter,” “the desktop-video tragedy,” &c. But clichés are sometimes true, and the endless supply of videos coming from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have had …
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Spoilers for the penultimate Big Love coming up:
“When people join churches, they change. Not the churches.” —Bill Henrickson
Is there a puddle in front of my TV? “Exorcism” may well qualify as Big Love‘s cryingest episode of all time; it seemed as if hardly a character managed to get through a scene without red-rimmed eyes. Yet for …
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James O’Keefe, the controversial conservative activist and undercover-video maker, brought down NPR’s CEO this week after releasing a “sting” video of an NPR fundraiser meeting with fake Muslim “donors.” Now a video editor, having reviewed the full, two-hour film that O’Keefe also posted online, …
