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Not a ton to say about the most recent Modern Family, which featured two subplots straight out of the Wacky Misunderstanding School of Sitcomedy—though for my money, the most amusing storyline involved Phil and Claire’s shared dorky love of bad movies. (Phil on sequels: “They usually get a new …
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More headlines from the Television Critics Association press tour out west:
* Don’t expect Conan O’Brien to make a Super Bowl commercial with Jay Leno this year either.
* Glee’s Heather Morris is ready to do more parody videos. And she has her own Flipcam now, so she can make that happen.
* Kevin Reilly asks reporters not to write …
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It was fortunate coincidence that President Barack Obama was able to begin his memorial speech Wednesday in Tucson with a bit of good news. Before he spoke to the memorial for the victims of Saturday’s shootings, the President announced, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes for …
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Wait! Come back! I swear this is not one more post about Sarah Palin’s “blood libel” reference!
Well, not exactly. I will leave it to others to judge the way she described her personal claim of unfair treatment in the media using the term for the charge that a religious minority, usually Jews, …
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There are series that get low ratings and get cancelled. There are series that get low ratings, are nurtured by their networks, and gradually get better ratings. There are series that get low ratings, then move to another network for which they’re a better fit, and where the low ratings are more acceptable. And then there are series …
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Australian director Baz Lurhmann recently hinted that he was considering filming The Great Gatsby in 3D, a format that has become a reliable cash cow for the movie industry. TIME looks at other Hollywood attempts to rack in extra …
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Do you like Grey’s Anatomy, but wish that the doctors’ private crises and personal issues were analogized to Third World suffering? Then you’ll love Off the Map!
The new medical drama from Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes, debuting tonight on ABC, was probably a no-brainer for the network to pick up, because it combined elements of two of …
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Time and interest permitting I may do a regular (or semiregular) Lights Out Watch here as the season goes on. Having some catching up to do, however, and having written about 1500 words on the show in my review this week, I’ll leave further breaking down of the pilot to you. I will say that I liked the pilot a great deal, but it took a …
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I was away from my desk on personal business yesterday, which means that not only was I absent from the TCA press tour, I was absent from not being at TCA press tour. Herewith, a selection of headlines from the last two days, as the broadcast networks began presenting to assembled TV reporters:
* Fox’s Kevin Reilly does not believe …
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I’m not at TCA press tour where it was screened, but had a chance to stream the very, very impressive 15-minute preview reel of Game of Thrones that HBO put together. (No sharing permitted, alas; above is a preview featurette that HBO aired.) After the jump, a few impressions—don’t …
Talk about a hard night to be a late night comedian. Given the very public violence of the weekend, and the attempted assassination of a sitting United States congresswoman, more than a few media observers wondered aloud as to how the nation’s funny men would return to the air Monday night. In the case of almost all late night …
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[Special spoiler alert: The following review mentions certain plot points that, at first viewing, I thought would be spoilers, but that FX’s commercials and promotions have abundantly given away–specifically, where the story goes after the pilot episode. I didn’t give away anything I wouldn’t want to know in advance, but in the …
The nationwide film critics’ associations have named their best films and actors of 2010, with ‘The Social Network,’ Colin Firth, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale taking an early lead for the Academy Awards
