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In your late-night update for the week:
* Two weeks into his restoration, Jay Leno is still leading David Letterman in the ratings, albeit with fewer viewers than when he left the Tonight Show.
* Dave, meanwhile, had fellow Leno-basher Jimmy Kimmel on his own show (above) to fondly …
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Here’s what your favorite political obsessive is going to be doing today, now that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has already had his minute in the spotlight announcing his support of the health-care bill: poring through the …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a beer, heat up a TV dinner, soak in a little bit of the homespun wisdom of Michael Landon, then watch last night’s Lost.
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Last night, the final twelve contestants on American Idol performed the music of the Rolling Stones. Did they start you up? Did they give you satisfaction? Click on the pictures for one TV critic’s individual (and definitely non-music-expert) reviews:
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Two decades after she was a Golden Girl, Betty White has managed to become TV’s It Girl. First she got a (prescient) career achievement award from the Television Critics Association and a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. Then the 88-year-old landed in one of …
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The first thing you need to know about Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty is that it contains a possessive, not a contraction. It is a show called The Price of Beauty that stars Jessica Simpson. The title is not telling us that Jessica Simpson Is The Price of Beauty.
But in a way …
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American Idol‘s final 12 kick off the finals tonight with the music of The Rolling Stones (look for my picture-gallery reviews to post overnight), and somewhere Tyler Grady is cursing fate that he never got the chance to properly show off his Jagger strut. The choice of artist means that, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, someone …
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Tonight FX debuts Justified, its Elmore Leonard-based US marshal drama starring Timothy Olyphant. I liked what I’ve seen a lot, and my review ran long enough ago that I figured I should point you to it again:
It seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre,
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Just caught up on How to Make It in America, the first episode to air since the review copies HBO sent me. In my review, I, like most critics I’ve seen compared the series to Entourage (with which it shares a producer). The makers of the show have resisted the comparison, though it’s meant as a compliment: it reminds me of the things I …
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A moment of silence, please. A decade late, the Tuned In home office has entered the 21st century, with the adoption of a flat-panel HD screen. To make room, I have finally decommissioned my last cathode-ray tube set and, along with it, my last operating VHS tape deck. For a little historical perspective, back when I originally picked …
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While I was in New Orleans earlier this month, I went to a premiere screening of the first episode of The Pacific sponsored by the National World War II Museum. Tom Hanks, introducing the episode, said that the challenge in this miniseries “was how to enter into this massive map with no recognizable names like Paris.”
In Band of …
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Peter Graves, best known for starring as Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (or, for a later generation, for his appearances in the Airplane! movies and the Biography series he hosted), has died. The original M:I series was before my time, but I’m always impressed, watching it in …
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I’ll stay away from spoilers for last night’s Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains and, thus, avoid having to review the episode. (Highlight: watching a chairbound James gradually become Harvey Fierstein as he shouted himself hoarse in the immunity challenge.) A few questions instead:
