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WARNING: Spoilers for last night’s Glee lie ahead.
Maybe it’s just that I badly needed a palate-cleanser after a long night of Lost-induced brain-twisting and sleep-denying, but “Laryngitis” was the first episode of Glee since the season break that I found myself enjoying (mostly) without reservation. Because I’m still a bit …
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, tell your brother not to sit too close to that brightly glowing TV set, and enjoy a nice episode of Lost together.
Last night, Jamie Foxx made a return appearance to American idol to coach the four remaining singers in — the music of the movies! The songs of the silver screen! Les chansons du cinema! Who was a box-office smash? Who went over like Ishtar? Click on the pix to find out:
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…you might as well, too. Tonight, Jamie Foxx mentors the remaining Idols in Music from the Movies, apparently because he was in Ray. Last year he mentored the Idols in Music of The Rat Pack, apparently because he was in Ray. Next year, he’ll mentor contestants in–what?–Music from The Blues Brothers? Ray Charles was in that!
As Roger …
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A bit of a largish print deadline this morning, so blogging’s going to be light. But the first thing I’m going to do when I have time, right after all the other first things I’m going to do, is get caught up on the final season of 24 so I can be there for Jack Bauer’s sendoff. It’s not like the …
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As of this writing, the search string “how i met your mother ted douche” returns over 100,000 hits on Google. I’m not sure if I should be surprised that it doesn’t get fewer or more, but I have notice that descriptive and his name used together with increasing regularly on this and other TV sites. So to hear Ted say it to himself last …
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For a TV show with such a vast, sprawling plot, expansive visuals and everything-but-the-Dharma-sink philosophy, Lost is also distinguished as a show with not much in the way of main-title theme music. (It has more of a theme note, or sound, or something.) But it’s certainly not a …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad follow.
Now we wait. As last week’s episode, “One Minute,” blew up the storyline of the vengeful cousins and threw Walter’s family into crisis, it left us, with him, to go …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Treme coming up, along with an off-the-menu plate of crawfish.
Before Treme debuted, David Simon and Eric Overmyer took pains to say that the show was not going to be The Wire: New Orleans. One way in which it would differ, they said, was its scope. Where The Wire was deliberately a sweeping …
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Back when Lorne Michaels decided to get Betty White to co-host Saturday Night Live in response to a Facebook campaign, SNL cast it as a Mother’s Day / women-of-SNL night, with returning cast members including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon, among others. The idea seemed to …
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The wait is over for those of you without one of those little DirecTV pizzas stuck to your house: the fourth season of Friday Night Lights returns to NBC tonight, and it’s worth the wait. I reviewed the season (based on the first few episodes) back in the fall, and I found that—while you might be rightly suspicious that the show …
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NBC continues its long, Marshall-Plan-like rebuilding process today with the announcement of three new series pickups for next season. Two of them are series I’ve heard entertainment chief Angela Bromstad talk up in the past: Love Bites, a kind of 21st-century Love, American Style from Sex and the City writer Cindy Chupack, and …
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