One contestant can’t handle the competition, while another comes back for more.
Happy Birthday Betty White: The Last Golden Girl Turns 90
As the television star turns 90, TIME takes a look at her storied and hilarious career.
MLK Run: Contraband Filches the Holiday Weekend from Beauty and the Beast
Mark Wahlberg leads another muscular session, while most Oscar hopefuls languish
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TV Tonight: Alcatraz
Even before Fox debuted Fringe in 2008, the series suffered under the unfair question of whether it would be the next version of its producer J.J. Abrams’ Lost. Once the show aired, it was quickly clear that the show had no such …
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An Unexpected Globes from Gervais: No Harm, No Foul, No Memories
Performance, like politics, has a lot to do with setting expectations. Ricky Gervais’ hosting performance at last year’s Golden Globes was incendiary partly for its content–acid jokes about Scientology, corruption and Robert …
Downton Abbey Watch: Bayonets Versus Feather Dusters
Last week’s season premiere of Downton Abbey was all about the dissonance between the home front and the real front and how the two worlds could be so closely connected while operating on an entirely separate set of stakes and …
Big Winners at the Golden Globes: Clooney and Streep, The Artist and The Descendants
In its patented swanky-trashy style, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association lures the stars to its party and TV viewers to a glimpse of Tinseltown at play
2012 Golden Globes: The Best and Worst Dressed
As Hollywood celebrates the best performances in film and television, TIME looks at the winners and losers on the Golden Globes red carpet.
TIME’s 2012 Golden Globes Live Blog
Because if a modern award show happens and no one is around to live blog it, then it didn’t actually happen.
Hollywood Harakiri: A Bad 2011 for the Movie Business
Sequels slumped, stars went dark and animated features lost their luster in the worst year for ticket sales since 1995.
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JPTV Jr.: Tennessee Tuxedo, the iPad and Magic
A while ago, Tuned In Jr. needed to look up a fact for homework, so he went on Google and looked it up. Within a few minutes, he had the information he needed, and as is my wont in such situations, I said in my best Tennessee Tuxedo voice: “Phineas J. Whoopee, you’re the greatest!”
Tuned In Jr. asked what I was talking about, and I …
Listen to TIME’s Gold-Themed Playlist on Spotify
The Golden Globes are this Sunday. This obviously calls for a gold-themed playlist on Spotify.
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30 Rock Returns: So You Think You Know Me
Spoilers for the season 6 premiere of 30 Rock below:
One of the best set pieces in the pilot of 30 Rock had Jack Donaghy, meeting Liz Lemon for the first time, give her a withering rundown of her personality, habits and …