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Back in November when Oprah Winfrey said she was ending her daytime talk show to focus on her new cable channels, there was a lot of coverage of “the end of Oprah’s show.” I made a point of stressing, at the time, that there is a difference between ending one iteration of a show for a particular syndication deal and actually ending …
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So there are a few things that are pretty much known to move product. Sex, of course—we all know sex sells. And a good deep discount—people love to save money! Oh, and also? A pained, publicly shamed celebrity staring dead-eyed at you while being interrogated by the edited, …
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I guested this week on the “Orientation: Ryan Station” podcast with Ryan McGee and Maureen Ryan to talk about the Desmond-centric “Happily Ever After.” It’s my second time this season, the second one having been “Dr. Linus,” so I must be good luck.
The way it works: the Ryans and I sync Lost on …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination round coming up after the jump:
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She’s delivered the news and interviewed world leaders, but now, through time.com, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer is answering to you. Sawyer—who took over the evening newscast in December—is the latest subject in TIME’s 10 Questions interview series, and you can submit a query for her at the 10 Questions page. Now’s the time to ask …
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It’s getting to the point where Tuesday needs its own week. American Idol and Lost being Tuned In mainstays, watching and blogging them take up the whole night (and, depending on my energy level and loquaciousness, into Wednesday morning). I’m still watching Justified, The Good Wife, Parenthood and V (pretty much in that order), but I …
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God help me, I think I actually agree with the Parents Television Council on an issue involving the FCC.
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve rarely seen eye-to-eye with the “broadcast decency” advocacy group, which has (among other things) spearheaded efforts to police the content of primetime TV. The reason: I’m all for …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, strap yourself it, hang on to your panic button, and watch last night’s Lost.
The nine remaining Idol finalists sang their way through the Lennon-McCartney songbook in this week’s competition. Did they take sad songs and make them better? What would you think if they sang out of tune? Click on the gallery below and try to see it my way:
Read Last Week’s Review of the American Idol Final 10 »
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Maybe the most significant piece of video to come out this week was not on television—not originally—but from the website wikileaks.org. The video, which TIME’s Mark Thompson analyzes here, shows the pilot’s-eye view as, in July 2007, a U.S. Apache helicopter in Baghdad shot and …
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OK, not totally seriously. But a tiny bit.
Back when I wrote a cover story about Jay Leno coming to primetime on NBC, the big macro-point was that The Jay Leno Show was a dramatic example of how TV was changing in a time of fragmentation and decline. Big networks, to oversimplify, are becoming more like cable, looking for ways to …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s episode of Chuck coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
