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Spoilers for last night’s Glee up next:
See, now that’s the Glee I would have liked to share with that Super Bowl–sized sample of America Sunday night.
I can see why the producers went with the kind of episode they did. The story didn’t require more than the most general knowledge of the series and its serial plots. It involved …
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Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced this morning that, as of late spring, he will launch a new primetime show and become Chief News Officer at Current TV.
[Pause to allow readers to find Current TV in their digital-cable/satellite channel guides.]
On a conference call with Current founders former Vice President Al Gore and Joel …
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In Showtime’s comedy Episodes, a pair of British sitcom producers have lunch with Matt LeBlanc, who’s considering starring in a remake of their comedy about a headmaster at a boys’ school. LeBlanc notes that it sounds like The History Boys, and the more the couple try to explain the differences, the more it does in fact sound like that …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother following:
The moment that “Oh Honey” indicated it would focus on Zoey, I actually exclaimed aloud, “I do not give a crap* about Zoey!” (*Quotation bowdlerized for MSM-website standards.) So you probably have a sense of where I stand on the Zoey-Ted relationship. It’s not that I …
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I try to make a point of not using this blog to simply post random videos from bands that I like. But I feel I can make an exception when the video (for The New Pornographers’ “Moves”) includes Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Donald Glover, much of the Daily Show cast, Julie Klausner as Neko …
Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly deserve better than this by-the-numbers girl-meets-girl psycho thriller
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So as I wrote this morning, Groupon seems to have alienated much of the football-watching world with its commercial last night, which began as a seemingly earnest plea about the plight of Tibet and ended with Timothy Hutton describing the awesome deal he and others got at a Tibetan …
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Ideally, TV critics should judge new shows without regard to whether they run on cable or broadcast TV. In practice, our insider-y knowledge of the differences and the tensions between the two creeps in. Arguably, some cable shows get a pass for recurrent themes—the brooding antihero, &c.—that are every bit as much as overused as …
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You’ll have to excuse anyone, like me, who works for Time Warner for having flashbacks this morning, as word spreads of AOL buying The Huffington Post for $315 million. (Here’s HuffPo’s statement.) A high-profile deal between a media content company and AOL, with starry-eyed leaders on both sides promising synergies that will make “1 …
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Spoilers for the post–Super Bowl Glee up next:
If you had never watched Glee before, yet lived in American society with full possession of your senses and faculties, what would you probably know about it? That it’s set in a high school. That kids sing popular tunes of the day. That there’s this cheerleading coach who does all kinds …
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Thanks for my kindly masters, this was the first year in several that I did not work through the Super Bowl and into overtime reviewing every single ad for time.com—I divvied up the game with colleagues Steven James Snyder, Feifei Sun and Josh Sanburn. I had the second quarter, …
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“We’re going to be a church that values women and their relationship with Heavenly Father.” —Barb Henrickson
“I am not Roman Grant.” —Bill Henrickson
An early knock against Big Love was that a drama about polygamy that did not condemn the practice across the board amounted to a male fantasy. It was an oversimplification, the …
Now that Conan O’Brien is back on television, one might be forgiven for thinking the late night wars were behind us. But in recent weeks, Howard Stern has made a return to the talk show circuit, and has come out swinging, reviving the vitriolic Letterman-Leno-Conan dustup. And he’s held no punches about what he thinks of the 2010 scrum. …
