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The search of the next judge to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol continues, with the producers throwing more big names into the list of candidates. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elton John and Justin Timberlake are under next-Simon consideration. Though it’s not entirely clear who’s considering whom.
Captain Fantastic and …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
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Are you excited about NBC’s new fall shows? Really excited? Oh. Well, would a Daryl “Office” bobblehead change your mind? Or a Bob and Jillian Biggest Loser mug?
NBC is busily promoting its “Fan It” social networking program, in which it will pay, er, um, incentivize fans of its shows to promote its programming by participating in …
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This Thursday, Barack Obama will appear on The View for the first time since becoming President. (The episode will tape on Wednesday while Obama visits New York City.) Brian Stelter at the New York Times has more on the decision, noting it as an example of the White House’s longtime strategy of courting “nontraditional” media.
The fact …
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As Comic-Con disbands and the scent of snack food and vampire makeup fades from the streets of San Diego, a little more TV news, from TIME’s Techland blog and elsewhere:
* Some casting news from season 4 of Chuck, including Chuck’s mom and some names you’ve been seeing a lot in entertainment news lately. (No, not Mel Gibson.)
* Lev …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn on the TV in your lonely bachelor apartment and watch last night’s season premiere of Mad Men.
The theme of the new season of Mad Men is identity, says Matthew Weiner, and …
Mad Men, the popular show about advertising executives in the 1960s, returns to television this weekend. TIME takes a look at the things we miss about that swinging decade
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Daniel Schorr, a broadcast journalist with a career in reporting and commentary spanning more than half a century, has died at age 93. I, like many who came to admire him in recent years, knew him best from his comments and interviews on NPR. But he was a giant of TV journalism who …
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Some of your latest TV (and not) updates from San Diego Comic-Con, at TIME’s Techland and elsewhere:
* Having seen his Bored to Death session at TCA last year, I know that Jason Schwartzman gives good panel. Graeme McMillan dug his Scott Pilgrim session, and the movie itself.
* J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon shared a stage, creating a …
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There needs to be a term invented that conveys the message, “You might enjoy this show a lot, if you’re a fan of this kind of thing, as long as you don’t need it to be, in any grand sense of the word, actually good.”
The term “guilty pleasure” doesn’t quite apply to a project like Starz’s The Pillars of the Earth, debuting tonight. …
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WARNING: The following post involves a TV critic discussing TV criticism, including criticism of another TV critic’s criticism of a third TV critic’s criticism. Surely you have better things to do with your time.
My review/preview of the season 4 premiere of Mad Men is now online. Because Mad Men generates particular sensitivity about …
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Although my colleague Lev Grossman makes it sound so damn attractive, I am not going to the massive fan gathering / merchandise rollout that is San Diego Comic-Con. But Lev and several other of my TIME colleagues at the Techland blog will be there, covering many of its aspects including TV. Here, Peter Ha sneaks a peek at the promo …
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I wrote yesterday about the electronic shark attack on Shirley Sherrod this week, and how a video of a 40-plus-minute speech, edited to cast her in the most racist possible light, exploded from conservative website BigGovernment.com to Fox News and much of the big media—all before the longer, exculpatory video came out Tuesday …
