Director Robert Redford delves into the case behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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TV Weekend: Back Upstairs Downstairs
Starting Sunday, PBS revisits a piece of its own history, with an update/extension of Upstairs Downstairs on Masterpiece. I’ll admit not being a rabid fan of the original in the first place, but TIME film critic Mary Pols wrote an appreciation of the original on its 40th anniversary, while looking forward to the new edition. I’ll agree …
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RIP Jon Stewart's Glenn Beck Impression, 2009-2011
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It was too soon. Dammit, they took him from us too soon. So it was that, with the announcement that Glenn Beck would be leaving his Fox News show, Jon Stewart and his Daily Show writers took what they must have assumed would be the years’ worth of Beck material they would have in …
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Idol Watch: Lost for Life
Spoilers for last night’s elimination round of American Idol:
A few thoughts about last night’s promised “shocking” American Idol results episode, which turned out, shockingly, actually to be shocking. But first: is it possible that Iggy Pop’s performance was the most weird/incongruous/awesome thing ever to happen on Idol’s stage? …
32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History
From American Idol mania to The Real World’s first spat, TIME looks at the best, the worst and the most tasteless episodes of the genre that’s been a national obsession for nearly 30 years
Top 10 Sloppiest Movie Drunks
From Arthur to Withnail, TIME has picked the drunkest in a long line of film alcoholics.
Your Highness: The Ultimate in Lowness
Your Highness’ isn’t just a bad movie, it’s ‘the’ bad movie — a work of ur-awfulness, counterbrilliance and antigenius
Home-Schooling an Assassin: A Hit-or-Miss Hanna
Over-eager in almost every way, Joe Wright’s thriller keeps pressing scenes of deliberate, off-putting weirdness
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The Morning After: One Bad Mama
Quick spoilers for last night’s Justified coming up:
I wish I had more time to give “Brother’s Keeper,” the best episode of Justified this season (following on last week’s, which was the best to that point). But simply because attention must be paid, a quick hail of bullets on this explosive installment:
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Presidential Apprentice: Donald Trump's Birtherism, Sponsored By NBC
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Donald Trump‘s appearance on the Today Show this morning was a trifecta of self-promotion for NBC Universal. It gave a platform to the star of Celebrity Apprentice, one of NBC’s few minor hits. It gave Today a buzzed-about interview …
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Judging American Idol: The Final 9
This week’s American Idol performance night was themed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which, coincidentally, is where Steven Tyler is stored in a plexiglass vacuum chamber in between episodes. The nine contestants had a long range of rock history to choose from, so who made the hall of fame and who made the hall of shame? Click the …
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Apocalypse Now: Glenn Beck to "Transition Off" Fox Show
After a week of big-if-they-actually-happen TV career moves comes a big-and-actually-happening announcement: Glenn Beck and Fox News announced today that Beck will leave his daily TV show by the end of the year. According to the statement, Beck’s production company will develop new programming for Fox:
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts,
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Today in Possibly-True TV Stories: Vieira, 30 Rock Departing?
We’re suddenly up to our armpits in stories of TV stars possibly, reportedly, according to insiders, leaning toward leaving their jobs. First, there was Katie Couric. Then yesterday came a report that Meredith Vieira is favoring leaving the Today Show later in the year when her contract runs out. And now we have Alec Baldwin telling …