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I’m in New Mexico for a couple of days: Santa Fe today to interview author George R. R. Martin about the adaptation of his novels into HBO’s Game of Thrones; tomorrow in Albuquerque for a set visit to the fourth season of Breaking Bad. So I was thwarted by the Mountain Time zone and missed last night’s live airing of How I Met Your …
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Spoilers for the series finale of Big Love:
[Apologies in advance for any typos or errors in quotation; I’m typing this on an iPad in an airport lounge.]
In the beginning, there was man and woman. Before we met them on Big Love, they were husband and wife, alone. Later, as we learned, came the kids, two more wives, more kids, almost a
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I’m going to be on the road for work through Thursday, so posting here at Tuned In may be more inconsistent than usual. (In quantity, I mean. The inconsistent quality will remain unchanged.) I’ll be posting on the Big Love finale, for instance, but if my post hasn’t gone up yet, then it may be later than usual, owing to an early-morning …
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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 …
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen have amiable fun skewering sci-fi clichés, but Paul never quite lives up to their talents
Granted extraordinary intelligence by a black-market drug in Limitless, Bradley Cooper’s character decides the best use of his new powers is corporate raiding. Is there an originality pill he could’ve taken instead
In this tale of a suburban schlub in need of redemption, Paul Giamatti and writer/director Thomas McCarthy craft a film that’s warm, edgy and — you guessed it — winning
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NBC spared a lot of fans a lot of nailbiting this afternoon and announced that it is bringing back Community, Parks and Recreation and The Office for another season. 30 Rock was already renewed as of last fall. As for the other Thursday comedies: there is a very, very low ratings bar at NBC right now, but Outsourced and Perfect Couples …
