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I’m on the road for the next couple days and away from my beloved TiVo, so I missed last night’s Big Love and won’t be able to catch up on it. I’ve been detecting some dissatisfaction with the show in the Twitterverse, however, and figured the Big Lovers, or Big-Love-to-Haters, here might like to hash it out themselves today. I’ll try to …
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Tonight, The Grover Cleveland of television, Jay Leno, commences his second nonconsecutive term as the host of The Tonight Show. (As I write this I’m about to head off on assignment for a couple days, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to blog about his first night back or not.) His first week, as I’ve noted, has no blockbuster guest list, …
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If you watched the first episodes of Caprica and decided it wasn’t for you because it didn’t live up to Battlestar Galactica, try this: watch another episode and try to forget that it has anything to do with BSG.
When the show debuted, I liked its potential but wasn’t entirely on board: it had a lot going on and was a little sluggish …
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Last night, NBC gave a demonstration of the difference between so-awful-it’s-awesome and so-awful-it’s-amazing awful. First came the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, which, after the usual nods to the next Olympic site, final benediction by Olympic officials and emotional performances, morphed into a bizarre comic parody of …
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Word is out that Howard Stern—who was never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol—is not going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol. You know who else is never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol? Perez Hilton, but it gets attention when someone …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains coming up after the jump:
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It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on the Winter Olympics, and various screener-watching and writing duties are going to keep me from catching up for a while. So as the Games wrap up, here’s a general discussion post: what have you loved and hated about the Games on TV? And has anyone been streaming curling and hockey online?
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Brief spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:
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Here’s a crazy idea. The President of the United States and Congressional leaders are holding a forum on whether and how to reform the health-care system, a matter that affects pretty much everyone’s lives and is worth trillions to the economy. Wouldn’t it be wild if the TV networks airing the summit covered it mainly with analysts who …
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My Tuned In column in this week’s print issue of TIME looks at Sarah Palin’s Family Guy feud and its irony: Palin had her own favorite rhetorical device turned aganst her. Palin’s strength as a politician has been to use identity politics, drawing her authority from her biography (military mom, special-needs mom, small-town native, etc.) …
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When Conan O’Brien was being defenestrated by NBC in the Jaypocalypse, Twitter came loudly to his defense. And now Conan O’Brien—of Twitter Tracker fame—has come to Twitter! Yesterday, O’Brien debuted a Twitter account with a single (as of this writing) tweet:
Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to
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The men of American Idol made their live debut last night, and it was powerful—a powerful argument for not mandating that six guys and six girls make the finals. One way or another, folks, there is no stopping a half dozen of these guys from being around in three weeks.
If the women Tuesday night didn’t live up to their potential, …
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Earlier today on my Twitter feed I posted a question that occurred to me after I put up Lostwatch for last night:
What, now, is the objective [of Lost]? What, exactly, are we rooting for Jack et al to do?
It may be a stupid question, but it’s a serious one. Let me elaborate a little, and then I want to hear your answer.
