It turns out the debates are among those few exceptions every year—the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the Olympics—when TV awakens as a big medium, now amplified and hyped by social media.
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Dancing with the Stars Watch: Paula Abdul Guest Star Edition
Paula Abdul helps put Gilles Marini and Shawn Johnson in First Place on Week 4 of Dancing with the Stars
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Stay on NBC, At Least As Golden Globes Hosts
NBC is keeping its two favorite funny women on the air—at least for one night, as co-hosts of the Golden Globes next January. To which I can only say: what took so long?
Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard on Striking Out on His Own
Benjamin Gibbard will release his highly anticipated solo debut, Former Lives, on Oct. 16th. As the frontman for Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service, Gibbard has earned himself a reputation for a certain melancholic …
Lady Gaga, Prince on Baz Lurhmann’s Great Gatsby Soundtrack?
If you are bummed that Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D film adaption of the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby has been pushed back from Christmas Day to May 2013, then exciting news about its soundtrack will cheer you up. Lady …
Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party
This year, folk legend Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old. So last night, a suitably impressive cast of pickers, warblers and icons gathered in Washington, D.C. to “blow out the candles,” as his daughter Nora Guthrie …
R. Kelly on His Single Ladies Tour, Bedroom Ballads and the Future of Trapped
On Oct. 13, R&B singer R. Kelly played the first stop of the fall-winter “Single Ladies Tour” in support of his latest album, Write Me Back. The best-selling artist behind hits like “Bump n’ Grind” and “Ignition (Remix)”—also …
Argo Spoiler Alert: What’s More Exciting Than a Rescue?
Argo did well at the box office over the weekend. As someone who thinks we desperately need more intelligent, smartly scripted, adult-oriented thrillers, I take it as encouraging news. But even among Argo’s fans, I can’t be …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Get Me a Wet Towel
When the war moves to New York, everyone feels more exposed
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Holding Out for a Hero: 10 Great Rescue Movies
With ‘Argo’ out in theaters, TIME celebrates a few of filmdom’s most memorable rescue efforts
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Homeland Watch: The Expendables
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get yourself a glass of white wine—just a glass of white wine!—and watch last night’s Homeland.
“A flat tire. When he was in Iraq, I bet he never thought he’d deal with something …
The Walking Dead Watch: From the Farm to the Prison
Less than an hour after The Walking Dead’s Season 2 finale, showrunner Glen Mazzara talked a bit about killing off characters. During the Battle of Greene Farm, poor Patricia and Jimmy met grotesquely terrifying fates, but we …
Geezer Pleasers: Taken 2 and Argo Go for the Grownups
Adults flock to the Neeson and Affleck movies, and send the kids to ‘Hotel Transylvania’ and ‘Sinister’ for giggles and screams