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Bravo is reportedly weighing what to do with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after news emerged that Russell Armstrong, an estranged husband of one of the show’s leads, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide. Armstrong was a recurring figure on the reality soap, one of whose …
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In a way, criticizing the political media for imbalanced coverage of the Iowa Straw Poll is like criticizing the sports media for imbalanced coverage of the Lingerie Bowl. It’s a nonbinding, festival-like event in which candidates essentially buy votes (or at least buy entrance, …
Because Tuned In aims to be your one-stop source of information on The Most Important Show on Television, The Sing-Off, I wanted to get you the list of the 16 competing groups for the new, longer version of the a cappella competition that will air starting in September.
The main distinguishing feature of the list is its size, the …
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Until recently, Kurt Sutter ran two ongoing shows: FX’s Sons of Anarchy and his Twitter feed. The former is a drama about the brutal lives of a California biker gang, entering its fourth season on FX this fall. The latter was Sutter’s unfiltered, or at least minimally filtered, stream …
The bad news: Breaking Bad is ending. The good news: Breaking Bad is ending (hopefully) on its own terms. After a prolonged and unfortunately public negotiation over its renewal with AMC, the producers of Breaking Bad will get a final run of 16 episodes to conclude the story of Walter White, chemistry-teacher-cum-criminal.
The whole …
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Last night’s double-shot of Louie was an example of a recurring structure of season two Louie episodes, and an unusual one for a sitcom. Louie is going about his business—work, life—and comes across another person. They talk. They just… talk. For a long time. And then the conversation …
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Eight Republican presidential candidates debated on Fox News from Ames, Iowa, in advance of its straw poll this weekend. My colleague Michael Scherer liveblogged it at Swampland, and I’ll let you pick the winner: was it Mitt Romney, for not doing anything to jeopardize his frontrunner …
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Cross one potential culture-war issue off the books for campaign 2012: despite various online petitions‘ requests, Sesame Street has announced that longtime cohabitors Bert and Ernie “have no sexual orientation” and thus will not be getting married. This despite the fact that the …
One of the more comical incidents of the recent TCA television critics’ press tour was the attempt by the makers of The Playboy Club to defend its romanticization of its eponymous Bunny hutch as “empowering” to women. A lot of the critics assembled laughed it off. But you know what would really help to bolster their case? An …
From the Dept. of Things You Were Not Aware You Asked For: CBS has ordered a script for a remake of the ’60s sitcom Bewitched. What sorcery is at work here?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that people who remember Bewitched fondly do more so out of affection—for the charms of Elizabeth Montgomery, for the wacky two-Darrins …
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
I checked out of the TCA television critic’s press tour a day and a half early, missing out on the final network to present, ABC, but plenty of TV writers have stayed to the bitter (except for the network-provided chocolate-chip-cookie swag) end. Here’s what they have to report.
* As I wrote earlier this summer, ABC this season will …
Sunday night, the TCAs—the Teen Choice Awards—will be handed out on Fox, with millions watching. Saturday night, a less-lauded TCAs—the Television Critics Association awards—were handed out at the Beverly Hilton, away from the cameras but with (I have to assume) much better winners.
Among the winners (full list appears after …
