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Quick spoilers for last night’s Office coming up:
The thing about a serialized sitcom like The Office is that you watch it at the same time for how well the episode is doing and how well the series is doing. “The Sting” gave me very little to complain about on the first count; it was probably …
TIME selects the best films starring mediums, psychics and children (always the children!) able to communicate with the dead.
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You do not really need to shed a tear for Juan Williams, unless you weep droplets of gold, and them you can pile them on top of the three-year $2 million contract Williams received from Fox News after NPR cut ties with him. To sum up: Monday night, Williams said on The O’Reilly Factor …
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Is Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear a political event? NPR—which is currently having its own problems defining the limits of public commentary with its Juan Williams scandal—says so, having forbidden its reporters to attend the event. In an essay in this week’s print TIME (not yet available …
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Conan O’Brien starts a talk show, he gets Tom Hanks to come by; that’s just the tradition. TBS’s Conan announced it’s first week of guests today, and along with longtime O’Brien stalwart Hanks, he’ll have Seth Rogen, Jack McBrayer (take that, NBC!), Jon Hamm and Julie Bowen. Let’s hope Hanks can avoid being hit by a meteor this …
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I’ve dispensed a lot of verbiage in this space about what makes an episode of Modern Family work or not. Is it better when it brings the three family units together, or keeps them separate? Is it better when it’s sentimental, or forgoes the warm ending monologues? But “Unplugged” has me …
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Starting today at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT, the offices of Conan O’Brien’s coming TBS show are home to the 24-hour Live Coco Cam, set up in a stairwell and promising… well, you’ll have to load it to see. Today, they kicked things off with some aerobics (“Right, left, Cyndi-Lauper-style!”) as staffers made their way to work.
As Linda …
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Brief Sons of Anarchy spoilers following:
I’ll admit I’ve been a little lax on the Sons of Anarchy Watch this season, not that I haven’t been following it, but for a few other reasons: running out of time, between a front-loaded week on the blog and other deadlines; the fact that I’ve been watching episodes in chunks (and thus a …
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President Barack Obama, who had some positive things to say about the Rally to Restore Sanity—or actually, the “rally for Americans in favor of a return to sanity or something like that”—is going to appear on The Daily Show Oct. 27, the Wednesday before midterms, during the week the show …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife coming up:
In my print-magazine piece about The Good Wife last week (full version should be online within a week or so), I wrote that one way that the show has managed to tell sophisticated stories within the constraints of keeping a CBS-sized audience is by combining its serial and …
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Tom Bosley, a TV fixture as the Cunningham paterfamilias on Happy Days, died today at age 83.
There are two types of TV dads: those who play somebody’s dad, and those who make you feel as if they could be—almost, in some way, as if they are—your dad. Bosley was the latter. His …
When it comes to television characters, we seem to love bad moms just as much as squeaky clean ones. TIME takes a look at some ladies June Cleaver would have hated.
