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TV Tonight: Banshee
The hyperbloody new Cinemax drama is not a terrible show. At times it can be entertaining. But at best it’s terribly, entertainingly superfluous.
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Dead Tree Alert: Enlightened Returns; Plus, Mike White on Screenwriters’ Responsibility
The screenwriter and Laura Dern talk about their spiritual quest comedy-drama and about whether art can make a better (or worse) world.
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Netflix, Cable and Redefining the ‘Hit’
As Netflix creates original series — without weekly airings or ratings — it will further tangle the already knotty question of what constitutes a “hit” in television now
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Reality TV Journalism: Alex Jones Shoots Off His Mouth on Piers Morgan
This was Reality TV news: the kind that, in the name of “getting people to pay attention,” turns over an argument to people glad to inhabit their most outlandish caricatures.
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TV Tonight: Justified Brings It All Back Home
Justified’s great theme has always been returning to where you came from. Season 4 starts with a promising detour into the Givens family’s past.
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Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You
There’s plenty to enjoy in PBS’ story of beautifully sad rich people. But ultimately it leaves me like the crabby Irish-nationalist former servant, sulking and ruining the party for everyone.
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Buy the Sky and Sell the Sky: The Weather Channel Is Now Branding Winter
The channel now has its own system for naming (and hyping) winter storms. Call me old-fashioned, but is it too much to ask for marketing to stop at the freaking sky?
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The Dish Goes Indie: Big Change for Blogging, or Just for Andrew Sullivan?
Sullivan may be like Louis CK or Radiohead: an established content creator who is able to monetize a DIY effort after becoming famous in more conventional ways.
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Vacation Robo-Post: TV to Look Forward to in 2013
A year from now, many of the 2013 shows we’ll be looking back on—for better or worse—will be surprises. But there’s a lot we can already anticipate.
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Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards
This award, or perhaps “award,” recognizes TV shows with interesting ambitions that, for various reasons, they don’t manage to quite meet.
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Appreciation: The Odd Couple’s Jack Klugman, an Actor Who Could Crack Wise – with Heart
The craggy humanity Klugman brought his characters showed the bittersweetness Oscar Madison tried to hide behind his blunt talk, wisecracks and cigar smoke
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Vacation Robo-Post: The Worst TV of 2012
It is time, as Frank Costanza would say, for the airing of grievances. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… the 10 Worst TV Shows of 2012!
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Programming Note
I’m going to be spending the time between now and the New Year not working. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook, suckers!