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Earlier this week, Eddie Murphy bailed as host of the Oscars after his Tower Heist producer, Brett Ratner, was booted from producing the awards for using an anti-gay slur in a press conference. The Academy moved quickly to hire a new producer, Brian Grazer, and now for Murphy’s replacement, it’s decided to go straight for its comfort …
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Over at HitFix, critic Alan Sepinwall has a disappointed assessment of The Office in its first season post-Steve Carell, in which, he says, the show has foundered in trying to find its center:
Michael not only generated most of
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So CNBC threw another debate for Mitt Romney and his traveling comedy troupe last night, this one focused, befitting the channel, on the economy. I could write about how the questions at the debate were as sharp and pointed as any since the excellent Fox News debate in August. I could note how the crowd booed Maria Bartiromo for asking …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
Right up front, let me say that “The First Time” was the best episode, overall, of Glee season three. Before we get to the good stuff, though, we had to get through about fifteen minutes …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy below:
Sons of Anarchy has always been a show built around two compelling, successful, but in the long term incompatible, stories. There’s one about Jax and Clay and Gemma and …
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Being a TV critic means that I have a job that, as far as my kids are concerned, is essentially like being paid to eat candy. But I get to share few of my goodies with them. Daddy is not likely to bond with the Tuned In Jrs (7 …
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The end of last week’s mail brought a new batch of screeners for HBO’s Enlightened, the Laura Dern–Mike White half-hour about a California woman trying to get her life back together after a nervous breakdown and spiritual …
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It was I Love the ’90s Day in TV news Monday. First, there was a dramatic press conference featuring Gloria Allred and an explosive charge of sexual harassment against a political figure. Scant hours later, the news networks broke away for the verdict from Los Angeles in a celebrity-death trial. The whole scene was so nostalgic, I …
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“You can’t deny the facts just because you find them inconvenient.”—Saul Berenson
As I started watching last night’s Homeland, “The Good Soldier,” I noticed that the episode was written by producer Henry Brommell, the …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, stop listening to that pay-wireless boxing match and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Much of all drama boils down to whether a character will do the right thing. What complicates …
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Longtime CBS journalist and 60 Minutes essayist Andy Rooney died Friday night at age 92 of complications from minor surgery, CBS News announced Saturday morning. Just last month, Rooney announced, in the commentary above, that he …
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Sometimes it feels like TV has been making revisionist Westerns longer than it was making the Westerns they re-envisioned. Gunsmoke alone was on TV for two decades, and the straight-ahead genre survived (with some tweaks, as in …
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One reasonable definition of a good TV show is one that makes you see something familiar in a new way. That was particularly the case for me with All-American Muslim, a reality show debuting on TLC Nov. 13 and the subject of my …
