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ESPN has suspended its Pardon the Interruption host Tony Kornheiser for remarks he made, on his radio show, about the clothing choices of his ESPN colleague Hannah Storm. Here’s the rundown on his comments from The Big Lead, which broke word of the suspension:
Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red
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Several months ago, I wrote a post about how MTV claimed it was changing its programming to reflect the idealism and optimism of a new generation and of the Obama era. A few months later, I wrote about how that might not exactly square with the fact that its biggest new hit was about drunken meatheads swapping fluids in hot tubs and …
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American Idol moved into its live phase last night, with a performance set from the twelve semifinalist women. (The semifinal contestants will be singing music “from the Billboard Hot 100”: i.e., popular songs from pretty much any time, ever.) And it was a bit of a letdown for two heretofore heavily praised entities: the girls …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn your TV 108 degrees and watch last night’s episode of Lost.
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And he seemed so stable! A publicist for Charlie Sheen released a statement today that the actor would be taking a leave of absence from Two and a Half Men while he checks into rehab for undisclosed reasons. Where, why and for how long are all up in the air.
In December, Sheen was arrested for domestic violence, but that run-in didn’t …
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Fresh off her mother’s battles with David Letterman and Family Guy, Bristol Palin will make her TV-drama debut in season 3 of ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager next summer. The show, now in its second season, follows a single teen mom who got pregnant in a regrettable fling at band camp. (I had no idea in high school …
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TNT’s Men of a Certain Age finished up its first season last night, having emerged as one of this TV season’s unexpected pleasures. It’s a talky, deliberately paced basset hound of a show—”Low-key” somehow sounds too overdramatic to describe its laid-back sensibility. But it used its comedy-drama explorations of small moments to big …
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The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir takes exception to the way NBC covered the upset U.S. victory over Canada in hockey Sunday night. Which is to say: it hardly covered it at all, breaking briefly into coverage for the end of the game, which played in full on cable channel MSNBC. (Where it drew over 8 million viewers, huge numbers for …
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Next Monday, the corpse of The Jay Leno Show will get a jolt of electricity and shamble, moaning, back to life as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. NBC and Jay have nodded to that restoration–and, perhaps, to the generational skew of Jay’s audience–with promos set to The Beatles’ “Get Back.”
And with whom will Jay get back? His first …
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The ratings for Undercover Boss since the Super Bowl have been stellar; last night it held its own against the Olympics and beat a new episode of Desperate Housewives. Joe Adalian at The Wrap says a renewal for a second season is inevitable, and it’s hard to argue. There’s only one question:
How?
If you assume that the show is not 100% …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off that telenovela, get into your ostrich cage, and watch last night’s Big Love.
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Did you miss me? Don’t answer that question! Instead, while I start digging out from under my pile of mail, let’s look at a few of the things I missed (or, at least, ignored) while staycationing last week:
* Tiger Woods showed off his sweet new blue curtain, and said that he was very, very sorry for letting you down. (Where “you” = …
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God bless our friends at the Shout! Factory company, the TV archivists who have been bringing back some of TV’s most obscure creations of the past on DVD. This week, they’ve put on the market—and thus, presumably, subjected some of their employees to watching—season one of what …
