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I’ll admit I’ve never been a particular fan of The Closer, but for those of you who are, a bit of unfortunate and surprising news: next year’s season seven will be the last, because star Kyra Sedgwick has decided she’s done with it.
If it’s bad news for Closer fans, it must be worse for TNT, since the series has been one of the reliably …
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Inspiration! Celebrities! Inspiration through celebrities! These themes of The Oprah Winfrey Show …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Fringe coming up:
I think it’s fair to say that most of us have not experienced the complications that result from inadvertently sleeping with the parallel-universe doppelgänger of someone you are in love with. (Though if anyone has any crazy twin stories, feel free to share them in the comments!) But …
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Spoilers for last night’s The Office coming up:
When Holly (Amy Ryan) broke up with Michael Scott, she really broke up with all of us, didn’t she? Ryan’s casting in the show was so right, and her character’s oddball fit with Michael so perfect, that when their relationship failed to survive …
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There’s a delightful little detail in “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas,” last night’s stop-motion holiday episode of Community, that fascinated me. When characters “appear” and “disappear” from the Planet Abed fantasy world, they open a little curtain in the fabric of the fantasy, through which you can see—the study room, which they …
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My list of the Top 10 TV Episodes of 2010 is also up at time.com. See my post about my Top 10 TV Shows picks for some explanations and general thoughts on listmaking. After the jump, some particular comments about the episode list, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, and some honorable mentions:
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TIME’s annual collection of top-10 lists is up, including my list of the Top 10 TV Shows of 2010. (Also up is my list of Top 10 TV Episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.)
After the jump, I’ll post my complete list, along with a partial list of honorable mentions. But first a couple caveats. Number one: This is not the …
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Tuned In’s sister blog Techland covers a couple of TV-biz stories with a common, unstated theme: the slow but gradual fading of TV as something you get exclusively through TV networks on a TV set. First, HBO (like TIME, a Time Warner company) is considering offering its programming through other means besides as part of a cable TV …
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Spoilers for last night’s Modern Family coming up:
“Dance Dance Revelation” was an amusing but not stellar Modern Family, hobbled by the title storyline involving Claire and Gloria’s rivalry as school-dance organizers. I know some people find Claire overly shrill and grating as a character; I don’t, and I actually think that Julie …
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Spoilers for this week’s finale of season three of In Treatment coming up:
Those of us who were particularly anxious to find out the resolution of Sunil’s story on In Treatment had to wait a little longer this week, as HBO pulled a switcheroo and aired the final Frances session first. And, we soon learned, that wasn’t the only …
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Last week, we learned via WikiLeaks that the U.S. State Deparment had produced a cable analyzing trends of anti-Americanism in Canadian TV. But it now appears that the U.S. has an offensive as well as defensive posture on televisual warfare—and not just in Canada, which we’ve been bombing into submission with our sitcoms and dramas …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
The title of Glee‘s last episode of 2010, “A Very Glee Christmas,” pretty much said it all for me. There was no special significance to the title except to reference the very, very, very often-referenced “A Very Brady Christmas” and to send the message: This is a Christmas episode of Glee! You …
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I was not expecting to automatically like TNT’s Men of a Certain Age when it debuted last year, not having been a huge fan either of Everybody Loves Raymond nor of most of TNT’s scripted schedule. But the show turned out to be a huge, if modest and low-key, surprise. (Really it should be in the TV dictionary under “modest and …
