Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in Indie Biopic
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Game of Thrones Watch: Dark, and Full of Terrors
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, throw a couple of your gods on the fire, and gather your friends around to watch last night’s season premiere of Game of Thrones.
“A comet means one thing, boy: dragons.”
I have …
Mad Men Watch: Time Is (Not) on Their Side
Betty returns bigger than ever, Don psychoanalyzes Stones fans and SCDP continues to diversify. This week’s episode gives us the munchies.
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Top 10 Movie Directors Who’ve Made TV Commercials
As more film-makers produce TV ads, we look back at those who’ve tackled both “art forms.”
The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: April 2–April 8
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Full Steam Ahead
We seem to have taken the “never let go” thing pretty seriously because Titanic is …
The Hunger Games Kills Off Two New Combatants: Perseus and Snow White
The teen-archer megahit vanquishes Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror — but it faces more challenges before it becomes an all-time worldwide blockbuster
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Olbermann Out, Spitzer In at Current TV
Once Keith Olbermann worked for MSNBC. Then he left amid a feud with his bosses. Then he signed up to remake Current TV’s news operation. Then he got embroiled in a feud with his bosses (despite ostensibly being one of them). Now, eight months and change later, late on a Friday afternoon Current announced that Olbermann is leaving the …
Everything You Need to Know About Earl Scruggs
A look back at the bluegrass legend’s best musical moments
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Dead Tree Alert: Veep, Women in Power and Game of Thrones’ Clash of Queens
In the current print edition of TIME magazine, my new column (subscription required) is about how–while women candidates may not be as prominent in 2012 as in 2008–TV has become chock-full of women exercising political power. I …
TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale
We get ready for Sunday’s season two premiere with a board game full of betrayal, intrigue and very confusing rules.
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Talking TV on the Radio: Primetime and the Recession (and/or Recovery)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post here about how, whatever signs of economic rebound are going on in the actual economy, TV shows were still talking about economic bad times and probably will be for a while. Kurt Andersen, a …
Book Excerpt: Diving Deep into Portland’s Enchanted Forest
An exclusive look at Under Wildwood, the new novel in the best-selling series by Decemberists front man Colin Meloy