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It’s official: Netflix is getting into the business of producing first-run series. House of Cards, a remark of a British political thriller, from David Fincher and Kevin Spacey will debut in late 2012 on the—movie club? channel? things-you-watch-on-a-screen service?
The timing, of course, will coincide with a U.S. Presidential …
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Since we’re coming off the news of NBC’s pickup of four of its six Thursday comedies, this is a good time to note that 30 Rock is having a pretty fine fifth season so far. I still feel the show often makes better jokes than episodes; that is, I probably quote lines from it more than any other …
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We go from me on NPR to me, on NPR: Morning Edition interviewed me for a piece that ran this morning about Gilbert Gottfried’s Japan comments and the phenomenon of celebrity twimmolations.
Because that’s how they get the socialist bias into your brain! With stories about comedians on Twitter!
(But really, in case anyone’s seriously …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol:
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Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation coming up:
Ladies and gentlemen, the best Parks and Recreation episode of all time. So far.
In my overview piece on Parks and Recreation’s third season, I wrote about the irony, at a time of fights over budgets and public unions, of there being a sweet network comedy about …
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When I planned to write my print TIME column this week on NPR and the James O’Keefe tapes, I was concerned that public radio might no longer be in the news by the end of the week. Silly me!
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to cut off federal funding to NPR. Here’s what the vote does not mean: that Congress will cut off …
