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The print issue of TIME this week features our Fall Arts Preview, including TV as well as movies, …
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One’s about disturbed minds, one’s about disembodied minds, and fans of HBO’s therapy drama In Treatment and Syfy’s artificial-intelligence drama Caprica can all set their minds at ease: each show is coming back in October.
Caprica, whose fans were initially told they’d have to wait until next year for the second half of the first …
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I don’t have a full-length review for you of The CW’s Nikita, debuting tonight, partly because of other deadlines, partly because, while the pilot is a sleekly executed version of a familiar woman-who-kicks-ass theme (based on the ur-woman-who-kicks-ass story), there’s not enough compellingly original about it to comment on. If it’s a …
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Breaking news, everybody: Sarah Palin posted something on Facebook! Responding to a Florida church’s plans to burn Korans on 9/11, she writes:
Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like
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Spoilers for the first half of Top Chef DC’s finale coming up:
I have seen every episode of Top Chef DC. I have also seen, with the exception of season 2, pretty much every episode of every season of Top Chef. So I think I can speak from experience when I say that, by the time it comes to the finale, I should at least know the names …
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It’s been a barely-veiled secret for months now, but today CNN is confirming that British journalist and sometime reality-show judge/contestant Piers Morgan will replace Larry King in primetime, starting next January.
The proof will be in the show, but my thoughts on the move are pretty much what they were back when the idea first …
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NBC has generated headlines over the past year with its attempt to remake ’70s private-eye show The Rockford Files. Somebody should let them know they can stop trying now.
FX has not remade The Rockford Files with its sly-humored new P.I. drama Terriers, debuting tonight, but it has pursued what is probably a better idea: creating a …
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Brief spoilers for the season three premiere of Sons of Anarchy after the jump:
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The outstanding season 2 of Sons of Anarchy ended in a blaze of action: the SAMCRO motorcycle gang got revenge (of sorts) for the rape of matriarch Gemma (Katey Sagal) by the minions of a white-power group; Gemma herself went on the lam after being set up for murder; and protagonist Jax (Charlie Hunnam) was dealt another blow in the …
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David Westin, who has managed ABC News for nearly 14 years, is announcing his resignation, pending ABC’s naming a replacement. The resignation comes with the usual statement about pursuing other opportunities, and the specific causes of the move are arguable: The Daily Beast pegs Westin’s departure as the handiwork of Disney head Bob …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, buy a ticket to the closed-circuit screening at your local theater and watch last night’s Mad Men.
It was structured around one historic fight, and featured a few others—some verbal, …
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Spoilers for last night’s Rubicon coming up:
In many stories, the dramatic function of lie detectors—like the ostensible actual function of lie detectors—is to eliminate ambiguity: to cut through the murk and differing possibilities and find black and white answers. Black or white, pass or fail.
In some stories, however, they …
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One of the worst-kept secrets in TV finally became official today: Kara DioGuardi and Fox announced that the judge will follow Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres in leaving American Idol’s judging panel for next season.
“I felt like I won the lottery when I joined ‘American Idol’ two years ago, but I feel like now is the best time to …
