Even as audiences largely ignored the film, “John Carter” finds itself at the center of a battle between Disney on one side and Netflix and Redbox on the other
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Richard Dawson, 1932–2012
Richard Dawson, actor, game show host and professional charmer, died Saturday at age 79. Dawson first came to fame on American televisions as good-humored British POW Cpl. Newkirk on Hogan’s Heroes, but he was best-known as a sly, saucy daytime TV conversationalist on Match Game and, most famously, Family Feud.
On Match Game, that …
Men in Black 3 Singes The Avengers
The revival of a Will Smith franchise slips past the Marvel men
Dead Tree Alert: Law & Order: DVR; or, Confessions of an Ad-Skipping Thief
My latest column in TIME (now free from the paywall!) is about the uproar in broadcast TV over Auto Hop, a new feature on Dish Network DVRs which takes commercial fast-forwarding one step further, allowing viewers to …
Community Without Dan Harmon? Suits Axe Auteur, and Fans Lose
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 …
Girls Watch: The Group
After the comedy’s pilot, “Vagina Panic” was a funnier, more structured episode, about sex and the idea that none of us is as special as we’d like to think we are.
Game of Thrones Watch: A Trick, A Shadow on a Wall
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Game of Thrones, but keep it to yourself. The Queen must never know!
Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones ended with a straight-up cliffhanger, in which Jon Snow …
TV Tonight: Scandal
Scandal, the new ABC drama from mega-producer Shonda Rhimes, is set in the world of politics, which is not to say that it is a political drama. It’s about politicians, and the associates and secret lovers around them. There are …
“I'd love to show @TimTebow around town...we have so much in common. He's 'like a virgin' and so am I ;)”
Madonna’s MDNA: The Queen of Pop Wants You to Dance, Not Think
Madge stays at the club for her 12th album, but the bad girl struggles to sound fresh.
Glee Watch: The Bully Becomes the Bullied
Spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I will say this for the way Glee handled Karofsky’s suicide attempt in “On My Way”: the beginning of the episode was a very effective 15 minutes or so of television. The problem: it was …
TV Tonight: The Loving Story
For Richard and Mildred Loving, their marriage was a pretty simple matter. They grew up in a small Virginia town where everyone pretty much knew everyone, fell in love (not without some obstacles; she found him “arrogant” at …
Three Cheers for Fashion Tourism: Come to Hong Kong for the Dim Sum, Stay for the Tailored Suits
In Anthony Bourdain’s new travel series, a quick visit to Hong Kong’s Simpson Sin suggests the rise of a whole new form of travel show