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But hey, we’re not all death this weekend here at Tuned In. Tonight, Starz returns its hilarious catering comedy, Party Down, for season two. Gone is Jane Lynch, who because of Glee will only be in one episode this season. Gone, after this season, will be star Adam Scott, who’s joining NBC’s Parks and Recreation. The show’s future is …
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I’m not the hugest fan of the kind of biopic film that HBO tends to favor for its original movies: these bio movies (both HBO’s and feature films) are often either straight-ahead recountings of the lives of figures I’m already familiar with or accounts of people I don’t much want to know more about. And nowadays I’m leery of the work …
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Jon Stewart ventured into straight-up, kind-of-earnest commentary on The Daily Show last night, on behalf of a pair of fellow comics. Stewart tweaked his network Comedy Central for censoring an episode of South Park that referenced the Muslim prophet Muhammad. But more than that, …
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And speaking of when media companies attack (themselves), my print column this week looks not at TIME but another unit of Time Warner: CNN, its nosedive in the primetime ratings and its plight as cable-news viewers increasingly turn to more-partisan hosts on Fox News and MSNBC. I’d like the channel to focus less on being a vanilla …
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It’s always entertaining when Fox News takes on Fox Entertainment; nothing better captures the exciting contradictions of Rupert Murdoch’s blend of conservative punditry with anything-goes entertainment. First Sarah Palin attacked “Fox Hollywood” for a Family Guy bit about Down Syndrome that mocked her. And now, as Mediaite points out, …
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Last Tuesday night (sorry! still catching up on work), Glee aired its much-vaunted Madonna episode. (If you haven’t yet seen the highly promoted Sue Sylvester “Vogue” video, above, you probably don’t want to, but here it is anyway.) I told you what I thought in my midseason-premiere walkup post …
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“201,” the conclusion to South Park‘s two-part 200th-episode celebration, aired last night, and it was an improvement on an already very entertaining first half. Or at least the parts we were able to see and hear were.
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Brief spoilers about last night’s Idol Gives Back / elimination round of American Idol coming up—after the break!
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John Cloud has already done an excellent job recapping last night’s Lost, “The Last Recruit,” and I don’t have much to add on the overall architecture of this moving-pieces-into-place episode. But because this is Lost, there are four episodes left, and I can’t shut myself up, I can’t resist …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t yet seen Tuesday night’s episode of Lost, “The Last Recruit,” then head over to the nearest Dharma station and watch it before reading this post.
Poniewozik has been drugged and stashed away in a padlocked room on the sub. So I’m your guest blogger for tonight’s frenetic episode…
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In James Poniewozik’s temporary absence, I’ve been asked to write tonight’s Idol Watch. There’s just one problem: somehow, even after eight and a half seasons, I’ve never seen a single episode of the nation’s most popular singing competition. Ever. I don’t watch reality TV and I’m terrified of Ryan Seacrest, the magical …
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SPOILER ALERT: Actually, I couldn’t spoil much about this week’s Lost, “The Last Recruit,” for you if I wanted to; I haven’t seen it yet and if my schedule holds, I probably won’t until sometime Wednesday at the earliest. (I can only say that based on the advance ABC logline, “Alliances are forged and broken as the Locke and Jack camps …
