It was “Music from the Movies” night on Idol, which, given the abundance of soundtracks, more or less translates to “Any Song Ever Written” night. Did it separate the Avatars from the Ishtars? And did the judges manage to say anything remotely critical of any performance all night? Click the pictures to find out.
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Why Wonder Woman's Costume Really Worries Me
Some projects come to television heralded by all manner of advance coverage and fan buzz, like Sunday’s debut of Game of Thrones, which has been written about—here among other places—when it was only a twinkle in HBO’s eye years ago. And some projects are greeted by intense scrutiny and advance buzz… of a less flattering …
The Good Wife Watch: Affairs of State
Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife:
The courtroom and personal/political stories in The Good Wife sometimes intersect but they don’t always work in concert. Often, a strong case-of-the-week pulls through a slack political story, sometimes vice-versa.
In “Foreign Affairs,” it was vice-versa.
The Morning After: City of Angelfood
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The first season of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution was my favorite new reality show of 2010 (and one of my favorite new series of the year altogether). As the British chef went on a crusade to improve the eating habits of a town and a school in West Virginia—finding resistance not just from …
Shocker! NPR/PBS Funding Threat Fizzles Like All Other NPR/PBS Funding Threats
Remember the controversy over funding public broadcasting? I know, it was an entire month ago, but make an effort. Remember how it was the signal culture-war issue in America? Remember how this was a matter of principle and how we simply could not afford such extras in a time of deep deficits? Remember how it was a matter of values and …
Stephen Colbert Does Not Intend This to Be a Factual Statement
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Stephen Colbert, as you probably know, is the guy who invented “truthiness.” So when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl made the statement that “over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does” is abortions (it’s actually about 3%)—and then his office backtracked by saying that his statement “was …
HIMYM Watch: Sub Mission
Quick spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother:
To its credit, How I Met Your Mother has pushed its characters this season with some real and challenging developments: Barney’s finding his father, Marshall losing his, Marshall and Lily deciding to have a baby, then apparently deciding not to. But HIMYM has always felt a little …
The Killing Watch: This Is What It Feels Like
Spoilers for last night’s The Killing coming up:
After the two-part premiere of The Killing last Sunday, AMC’s long-form murder procedural is settling in to investigate its title crime at its own deliberate pace. As to the investigation itself, there are too many questions and I have too few theories to judge that plot so far. (The …
The Morning After: Human, Nature
The secret to the appeal of Discovery’s Human Planet, which debuted last night, is that it is as much about the second half of its title as the first. That’s not to say simply that it replicates much of the how-did-they-do-that camera wizardry of predecessors Planet Earth and Life. It’s also that it focuses on a situation that is as …
Idol Watch: Lost for Life
Spoilers for last night’s elimination round of American Idol:
A few thoughts about last night’s promised “shocking” American Idol results episode, which turned out, shockingly, actually to be shocking. But first: is it possible that Iggy Pop’s performance was the most weird/incongruous/awesome thing ever to happen on Idol’s stage? …
The Morning After: One Bad Mama
Quick spoilers for last night’s Justified coming up:
I wish I had more time to give “Brother’s Keeper,” the best episode of Justified this season (following on last week’s, which was the best to that point). But simply because attention must be paid, a quick hail of bullets on this explosive installment:
Apocalypse Now: Glenn Beck to "Transition Off" Fox Show
After a week of big-if-they-actually-happen TV career moves comes a big-and-actually-happening announcement: Glenn Beck and Fox News announced today that Beck will leave his daily TV show by the end of the year. According to the statement, Beck’s production company will develop new programming for Fox:
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts,
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Today in Possibly-True TV Stories: Vieira, 30 Rock Departing?
We’re suddenly up to our armpits in stories of TV stars possibly, reportedly, according to insiders, leaning toward leaving their jobs. First, there was Katie Couric. Then yesterday came a report that Meredith Vieira is favoring leaving the Today Show later in the year when her contract runs out. And now we have Alec Baldwin telling …