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Campaign Video: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em for Herman Cain
Can this insane campaign ad help keep Herman Cain from inadvertently getting himself nominated?
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What Would You Like Apple to Do to Your TV?
When writers dream of someday producing work that will change the world, they are not necessarily thinking about adding millions of dollars to a company’s market cap. But my old boss, Walter Isaacson, pulled off just that with his upcoming biography of Steve Jobs, as Apple’s stock rose $3 a share 3% on a quote that Jobs was on the verge …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Not Out of the Woods Yet
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, have your servant bring the cocoa and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
In a quote that you are probably tired by now of hearing critics like me repeat, playwright Anton Chekhov …
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TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time
There is a school of thought in Hollywood that the best way to tell an audience a story is to make it one they’ve heard before. Hence the revival of multiple comic-book franchises, the (failed) rebooting of Charlie’s Angels and …
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Starz’s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject
The dramatic grimness comes quick and often in Starz’s new show starring Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago Mayor
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Did You Need to See Gaddafi’s Corpse?
When Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in May, people criticized the government’s decision not to release the reportedly grisly photos of his corpse. Rumors were swirling that bin Laden was not actually dead, and the lack of visual evidence—as opposed to the leaked video that emerged after Saddam Hussein’s hanging—encouraged them. We …
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NPR Listeners May Finally Be Protected from Opera Bias
Public radio listeners! Have you long worried that your station was undermining capitalism through its broadcasts of the Ring Cycle? Tired of having your children brainwashed by the socialistic messages of La Traviata? Well, fear …
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The Morning After: X, Men
With Tuned In having been folded into TIME Entertainment, I’ve been trying to decide which of the old blog features do and don’t work in the new format—among them, The Morning After open-discussion posts for last night’s TV. But because I like having that option—and don’t have the time right now to post at more length—let’s give it …
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I Let My Babies Watch TV. And I Regret Nothing!
On Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed a longstanding statement that children under the age of two should not watch television. This is not exactly a new position. Doctors and development experts have urged parents to keep young children away from screens for years. And the AAP itself made much the same statement about …
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Review: The Descent of Man Up!
ABC’s newest manxiety sitcom is about men estranged from their masculinity, and it will never let you forget that.
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The Good Wife, Up All Night and the Spinoff-Within-a-Show
The other night while I was watching The Good Wife, a follower on Twitter asked me how I was liking the new season so far. It occurred to me that, while I’m still a big fan of the show, I wasn’t loving the season yet—the main …
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Zombies Devour Ratings Record! 7.3 Million for Walking Dead
Amid the off-season drama over AMC’s The Walking Dead—in which the network cut the series’ budget and ushered out showrunner Frank Darabont—hung the question: was the network going to, er, cannibalize its zombie drama and …
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Supersize Me! Welcome to TIME Entertainment
As you may have noticed, we’ve spruced up the place over the weekend. Welcome to the new TIME Entertainment, in which yours truly at Tuned In is being joined by TIME’s other arts writers to form a kind of critical supergroup. (If …