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Like so many snarky, embittered Santa Clauses, TIME’s critics are busily making our year-end lists right now. As in past years, I’ll be counting down the 10 best series and episodes of the year next month, and I’ll probably …
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Regis Philbin, the most televised man in history, ends a run of affable irascibility this morning as he airs his last Live with Regis and Kelly. A few years ago, when he was about to debut as host of America’s Got Talent, I spent …
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In last night’s Up All Night, stay-at-home dad Chris (Will Arnett) and wife Reagan (Christina Applegate) are looking for a part-time babysitter so Chris can get some time to himself. One of his first requirements: “I don’t want a …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I’ll keep my issue with “Mash-Off” brief, because it is essentially the problem I had with last week’s (much superior) “The First Time.” Here’s the thing: Glee is itself a mash-up. At base, it’s a story about kids (and teachers) in Ohio with real, believable problems—a little unrealistic, …
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I had to save Gabby Giffords for last.
Giffords gave her first TV interview on ABC Monday night, the same night that NBC’s Bob Costas talked former Penn State defensive co-ordinator Jerry Sandusky, for Rock Center with Brian Williams, on the charges of child rape against Sandusky. The interviews aired in the same time slot—one a …
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New York City police in riot gear raided and cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park around 1 a.m. Tuesday. As it happened—coincidentally or not—this was past press time for local papers. There was no mention of the raid in the New York Times on my doorstep this morning, and when I woke up around 5 …
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Late Monday afternoon, NBC released its midseason schedule, which did not include a place for Community. Twitter—which feels as if it has a 10-to-1 greater ratio of Community fans than the actual TV viewership—briefly …
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Across America, families are wracked with doubts about whether the next generation will ever be able to enjoy the opportunities afforded to their parents. But as it turns out, there’s still hope for you, Young America! You can …
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Spoilers for last night’s Homeland follow:
In a drama about terrorism, you would expect an explosion, but not of the sort that finished last night’s Homeland. In this stunner of an episode, Homeland blew up its status quo.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish playing that fortuitously instructive board game with your ersatz family and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
As I’ve mentioned in these reviews before, Boardwalk Empire is …
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In last week’s TIME, I took an early look at TLC’s new reality series, All-American Muslim, debuting Sunday night; I also blogged about it earlier here at Tuned In. Here’s one more reminder to catch this deeply intriguing, …
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One of the very first articles I wrote for TIME magazine was about CBS trying to relaunch its low-rated morning show, The Early Show, with a new anchor team. It hired Bryant Gumbel (remember him?) and Jane Clayson (remember her?) and plopped them in a voguish glass-walled studio (remember those?). And then—not much. The Early Show has …
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Fresh off his freeze-tastic performance in the GOP Presidential debate Wednesday night, Rick Perry showed up on Late Show with David Letterman to try to turn embarrassment into embarrassment-ade, reading a list of top 10 excuses for his onstage forgetfulness.
Did Perry help himself out? The minimum standard for an appearance like this …
