We all know, of course, that Hollywood is liberal. And liberals hate the Bush Administration. And Bush Administration haters hate Dick Cheney the hatingest of all. So you probably wouldn’t be surprised to know that there’s a TV network that has not one but two series featuring a sinister Vice President of the United States. Which
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There are two things that suck about the summer: missing your favorite network TV shows, and having to sit in an office working on a beautiful day. For fans of NBC’s The Office, both situations will get slightly better in summer 2006. The network is planning 10 online-only episodes of the sitcom, in which supporting characters from the
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The Federal Communications Commission had one of its semi-regular paroxysms of moral cleansing yesterday, upholding the fines against CBS for the Janet Jackson incident in 2004 and levying about $4 million in new fines for various shows, including a record $3.6 million against 11 CBS affiliates for airing an episode of crime show Without
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Yesterday, 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace acknowledged that the tick, tick, tick of time waits for no man. At 87, Wallace said that his eyes and ears were not what they used to be, and that he would step down from the newsmagazine after this season, though not necessarily end his news career. Immediately, there were suggestions that, as Tom
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When Mark Burnett premiered The Apprentice just over two years ago, the parallels with his hit Survivor were obvious: two groups of contestants, competing in immunity challenges on a hostile island (in this case Manhattan). In the first episodes, host Donald Trump made a big point of comparing the business world to "the jungle."
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With the long-awaited return of The Sopranos looming Sunday night, you may already feel you’ve read every possible angle on the show’s cultural significance. Not this one, I’ll bet. The Jewish news-and-culture paper The Forward is featuring a set of essays looking at Jewish themes, stereotypes and tributes in The Sopranos and six other
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Renee and Brian Sparks and their son, Nick, a black family from Atlanta, switch ethnic identities with the help of makeup in the new reality series
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We all know why the movies are superior to TV, right? TV relies on formula and cliches. It repeats itself, it insults your intelligence and it has no sense of subtlety. The
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the world was expected to exhaust its reserves of Brokeback Mountain jokes in early February. Hollywood is a resourceful town, however, and within the first 90 seconds of the Oscar broadcast last night, it pulled another one from its stockpile, as Billy Crystal and Chris Rock popped their heads
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet, avert thine eyes. Besides, aren’t you supposed to be working?
I don’t think I realized until watching last night’s episode how masculine Lost has been this season. Lots of Locke, lots of Jack, lots of Sawyer and Charlie — mucho testosterone-y bluster and bighorn-ram head-butting.
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On last night’s debut of The Amazing Race, we saw what has become a regular occurrence on reality TV. One of the racing teams, a pair of sisters, was helicoptering over the city of Sao Paolo, Brazil. "We’re closer to the heavens now," one of them said. "Let’s pray. Jesus, just don’t let us come in last."
It seems that you can hardly
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If you watched the Winter Olympics, you would have gotten the impression, from the endless commercials, that Deal or No Deal was the only program on the NBC network. And at least this week, you would not be far from wrong. NBC is running the show five nights this week (before it becomes a regular weekly show).
This scheduling move may
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The marquee event of the Winter Olympics—women’s individual figure skating—began last night, and like any good American, I watched American Idol instead for the first two hours. (Yes, I know I’m on vacation. Hey, restaurant critics have to eat on vacation, too.) At 10 p.m., I switched over to figure skating, where NBC had
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Tuned In’s globe-spanning staff of one will be on vacation next week- exploring the exotic wilds of Brooklyn with Tuned In, Jr., who’s off school- so you can expect posting to be lighter, if not nonexistent. It should be a good week of TV to miss anyway: Lost is a rerun, Fox will run another 16 or so episodes of American Idol and we
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