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SXSW Watch: My Twitter-Crit Panel, or, A Lot of Words About 140 Characters
I have survived my first South By Southwest panel appearance. On my Sunday-morning panel, “Arts Criticism in 140 Characters or Less,” my fellow panelists and I used far more than 140 characters at a shot to explain how social …
The Bachelor Finale: Did Ben Pick Courtney or Lindzi?
Bachelor life tips: When you tell a man you love him and he says, “Good,” you should run.
SXSW: America’s Top Music Fest Returns. Five Buzz-Worthy Bands to Check Out
Thousands of bands over six days: How can anyone see them all? TIME picks five early standouts from the sprawling South By Southwest music festival
Bully: A Hard Documentary, but Does It Deserve to Be Rated R?
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Winter Is Returning: Game of Thrones Season 2 Hopes and Fears
I’m still at South by Southwest, so posting is going to be pretty light through Wednesday, but I wanted to point you to a roundtable I did with some fellow Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire fans about the upcoming season 2 …
SXSW and the Future of TV: Welcome to the Era of Relationship Television
From DVR to Netflix streaming, technology has the changed the business of the TV industry; now the push towards transmedia has content creators dreaming up new and creative ways of forging relationships with fans.
The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: March 12–18
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Go West, Young Chef
Ree Drummond created a blog empire from her life as a rancher’s wife. She has a …
The Walking Dead Watch: Better Angels
The Walking Dead has surpassed Game of Thrones with its whole, “We can kill any of these characters” philosophy.
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Top 10 Unusual Reality TV Jobs
From reptile wrangler to rocket scientists, we present some of reality-television’s most interesting occupations
The Lorax Aborts John Carter‘s Mission to Mars
Seuss slams Disney, as the $250 million space epic limps into second place
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SXSW Watch: The Transmedia of Top Chef
One of the TV buzzwords I’ve been hearing this year at South by Southwest is “transmedia.” Which, you may be surprised to find, is not a reference to RuPaul’s Drag Race. It’s the new term of art for using various other media platforms to create entertainment associated with a show, and one of the more aggressive networks at it has been …
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The Twidiot Box: How Do You Use Twitter With TV?
I’m en route to Austin, Tex., where on Sunday I’ll be speaking on a South by Southwest panel, Arts Criticism 140 Characters at a Time, about how Twitter and other social media have affected critics. My answer, in a word: immensely.