Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination, after the jump:
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Conan Speaks—On 60 Minutes
Conan O’Brien‘s contractual TV-interview-muzzle agreement with NBC reportedly expires on Saturday, May 1, and the next night O’Brien will be giving his first on-air interview since the Jaypocalypse to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes.
The gag order’s expiration is timed fortuitously, promotion-wise, since it comes after Conan’s deal with TBS, …
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Glee Watch: Bringing It Back Home
After last week’s Madonna-opera, last night’s Glee, “Home,” was a welcome return to the show’s roots—insofar as any show that’s been on the air for less than a season can be said to have roots. It wasn’t an episode on par with the series’ best, like “Preggers” and “Wheels” from Glee’s fall run, but it reined in the show’s recent …
American Idol: A Little Bit Country
American Idol introduced megaselling mentor Shania Twain as the woman who “made country pop”; and since Idol is the TV show that makes pretty much every genre into pop, it’s a perfect match. Who among the remaining half-dozen rode the Twain to stardom? Click the pix for my take:
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Top 10 Controversial Cartoons
In light of the dust-up over South Park’s portrayals of Muhammad, TIME looks back at other cartoons that have caused a ruckus
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Joe Klein on Me on CNN
If you simply can’t get enough kibitzing on the broadcasting choices of shrinking cable channels, my colleague over at Swampland, Joe Klein, picks up on my recent column of suggestions for CNN and adds some of his own. For instance:
if I were the high sheriffs over there, I’d be looking closely at the way the British do the
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Lost Discussion Group: Who Lives? Who Dies?
There’s no new Lost tonight; ABC is rerunning “Ab Aeterno” before resuming the series’ run to the finale, so tonight you have extra time to ponder the significance of Richard’s history on the Island, or simply to vote extra times for American Idol.
On the Twitter suggestion of regular commenter Chaddogg, then, I’m reviving Lost …
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The Morning After: Nonstrangers on a Train
So on last night’s Chuck, the first of six bonus episodes resulting from an additional episode order by NBC, we meet Chuck and Sarah after they have consummated their relationship. Repeatedly. And, for those of you needing the additional assistance of Freudian symbolism, it takes place… on a train.
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TNT Gives Southland a Third Season. (Also, There Was a Second Season.)
If you were a fan of Southland—originally debuted in midseason by NBC a year ago, cancelled, then bought by TNT—you will be delighted to know that TNT has picked up the oft-praised but ratings-challenged (compared with TNT’s biggest hits) cop drama for a third season.
You may also, like at least one follower of my Twitter feed, be …
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TV Tonight: This War Was Hell, Too
Though its events took place thousands of miles away and over two decades later, you could see tonight’s PBS American Experience documentary, “My Lai,” as a kind of nonfiction companion piece to HBO’s The Pacific, especially the recent episodes (like last night’s) about the battle at Peleliu. The Pacific gets into the heads of American …
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The Morning After: A Re-Introduction
It’s been a while since I’ve given a little introduction to The Morning After posts at Tuned In. There’s a lot of TV on television, and most nights there are more noteworthy shows—for better or worse—than I have time or inclination to write about the next day, because of other deadlines, other obligations and extreme personal …
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Breaking Bad Watch: …Don’t Come a-Knockin’
Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
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Treme Watch: If This FEMA Trailer's A-Rockin…
Spoilers for last night’s episode of Treme coming up after the jump: