In his tenure as host of the eponymous CNN interview show Larry King Live, the King has conducted some 50,000 interviews with persons of the moment. As he hangs up his suspenders, TIME takes a look at his most memorable moments …
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Sing-Off Watch: It's Not Over 'Til…
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Brief spoilers for last night’s The Sing-Off coming up:
It was the last performance before the live finale of The Sing-Off next Monday, and that meant it was time for some tough choices. The judges, having eliminated one group to take the field down to four, needed to do one more round of …
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AMC Rolling with Hell on Wheels
With Breaking Bad and Mad Men collecting awards hardware and The Walking Dead smashing ratings records, AMC is not letting up. Today, it announced that it is picking up to series Hell on Wheels, a Western about an ex-Confederate soldier after the Civil War who heads west to work on the Transcontinental Railroad and seek revenge. I …
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"Delicious, Strawberry-Flavored Death!" for Fringe
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Fringe is not going gentle into that good Friday night. As this promo clip indicates, the show’s January move to Friday is often considered a mark of doom for a series. But the show is looking to make the best of the situation, and—like any good mad-scientist drama—trying to …
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TIME Updates Zuckerberg's Status to "Person of the Year"
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In 2006, TIME’s Person of the Year was You; this year, it’s Your Former High School Classmates on Facebook. TIME’s managing editor Rick Stengel this morning announced the Person of the Year for 2010: Facebook founder (and Social Network …
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Running Wilde, Running Out of Time
It looks like the end for Running Wilde, as EW reports that Fox has decided the remaining five episodes of the sitcom are not even worth essentially burning off during the slow month of December. [Update: Just got word from Fox that, contrary to the earlier report, the episodes will run / be burned off in December: Dec. 19 at 7 and …
The Night Shift: Jon Stewart's Seamless, Searing Takedown of Congressional 9/11 Hypocrisy
It’s always been a touchy subject on The Daily Show – the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, which redefined the battlefield of American politics. Following his emotional return to the airwaves in 2001, Stewart seemed somewhat hesitant about discussing the attacks. In the nine years since, he’s unloaded freely on the Bush …
Top 10 Posthumous Albums
TIME presents the classic recordings that brought fame and fortune to musicians—after they were gone.
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Sing-Off Watch: You Call That Guilty?
Spoilers for last night’s The Sing-Off coming up:
Competition continued last night on The Most Important Television Event of Our Era, with the six remaining teams in The Sing-Off selecting from “rock songs” and “guilty pleasures.” I had my issues with the elimination, and I question whether “guilty pleasure” in fact means what the …
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2010 Golden Globe Nominations Announced: The TV Awards
The Golden Globes nominations were announced this morning, and while it was the usual mix of expected choices, occasional smart calls and total head-scratchers (Burlesque—that is not a typo), we’ll indulge them and take them seriously, at least for the moment.
To start with the positive: Katey Sagal got a well-deserved actress …
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The Morning After: Upping the Body Count
I jumped off the regular Dexter train a couple of seasons back, around the time the series stopped being a drama about the attempt of a sociopathic killer to assimilate into society and became a successful drama that had to potentially run many, many seasons. In other words: when it became clear that Dexter would have to continue …
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Amazing Race Watch: California Gurls, They're Undeniable?
Spoilers for last night’s finale of The Amazing Race coming up:
The three final teams in this iteration of The Amazing Race touched down for the final leg of their contest in Los Angeles, to the tune of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” as if the show needed to further underscore the stakes: There was a two in three chance that the …
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More Lists! The AFI Chooses Its Top Ten TV Shows
The American Film Institute—they’re not just about film!—announced yesterday its list of the top 10 TV shows of 2010. (And, oh, yeah, its top 10 movies, if anyone cares about that.) I voted on its jury this year, as I did in 2008 and 2005, and as with any juried list, you get some of what you want and some of what you don’t: you …