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Walter White will be the one who knocks on your TV screen July 15, when Breaking Bad returns for its fifth and final season on AMC July 15. But you won’t have to say goodbye too soon, because the show will re-return for the same …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish up reciting your Valyrian poetry and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“Being a lord is like being a father, except you have thousands of children, and you worry about all of …
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The good news for Community fans came before last week’s upfronts, when NBC committed to pick the sitcom up for another (albeit possibly final) season of 13 episodes. The bad news came late on Friday, when news broke that …
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In the new print issue of TIME, we have our summer Arts preview (subscription required), in which I blurb 11 summer TV shows I’m most interested in seeing. This is not to say the “best” shows of the summer, because they’re shows …
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In my upfronts post about ABC the other day, I talked about how the broadcast networks spend the week trying to distinguish themselves from each other, even though they are far more like each other than the much-more-specialized cable networks are. The CW is an exception. Its ratings are much more like cable (often below some cable …
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“You know what we do,” said CBS scheduling executive Kelly Kahl at a Wednesday-morning announcement of the network’s fall schedule. “We do pretty much the same things every year.” To be fair to Kahl, he was talking about …
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Spoilers for last Sunday’s Mad Men (and the season so far in general) below:
I was traveling over the weekend and had to watch Mad Men late, but if the reports I got over my Twitter feed were any indication, “Dark Shadows” was …
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An amazing thing about the TV upfronts is seeing how each of the major networks tries to distinguish itself, while all essentially offering the same thing. In the grand scheme of media, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are not all that different. Yes, they each have a certain style and aim for certain audiences, but they each have their …
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I was out of town yesterday as broadcast-network upfront season began, with NBC and Fox announcing their new fall schedules for advertisers. I’ll be attending and/or following the remaining announcements this week, and I’ll have …
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Quick spoilers for the season finale of Smash below:
…and so Smash concludes its first season as it began, wildly applauding for itself.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish getting that full-body tattoo and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“We can’t make steel as well as you, but we’re free. If someone told us we couldn’t lie down as man and …
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I’m going to be away with the Tuned In family for a long weekend through Monday night, so I’m going to miss the first day of Upfronts Week, in which the major networks (on Monday, NBC and Fox) announce their fall schedules for advertisers. Fortunately, NBC and Fox have obliged me by announcing many of their fall pickups early. I wrote a …
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My column in this week’s print TIME (subscription required) is a midseason update on Mad Men. In it, I look at how the show’s (literally) brighter, bolder 1966 color palette reflects (figuratively) the less subtle times it’s …
