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Courtesy of New York magazine’s Vulture blog (and denisermorris on my Twitter stream) comes this excellent Lost season six teaser from Spain. (Though, like its American cousins, it has no new footage to offer.) How do you say “I cannot freaking wait” en Español?
The New York Post has reported that Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, a Toronto psychotherapist, could be in line to become Oprah’s next media darling. If the tabloid is right, she’s just the latest in a long line of professionals whose …
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FX announced its midseason schedule today. On tap: Archer, Damages and Nip/Tuck (doesn’t it feel like Nip/Tuck is always returning?) in January; a new Louis C.K. comedy, Louie, in the spring; and in March, the much-anticipated (by me, anyway) Timothy Olyphant drama, once called Lawman, which will now be titled Justified.
Looking forward …
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Tonight at 9 p.m., something with the name Scrubs will air on ABC. Bill Lawrence, creator of the sitcom that debuted back in 2001 on NBC, gave the show a send-off of sorts last spring, before it was saved from certain death again. Lawrence says he considers the returned Scrubs—which focuses on a crop of med students—a “new …
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A public-service reminder: A Charlie Brown Christmas, originally scheduled to air tonight, has been rescheduled for Dec. 15, because President Obama is addressing the nation on his Afghanistan policy. Did his secret-madrassa-brainwashing program him to systematically take out Christian holiday icons on assuming the Presidency? I …
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It’s December rerun season, which meant that last night was time for me to rediscover the fact that NBC programs TV shows on Monday night. Having fallen out of touch with Heroes—which from a casual viewing seems to have evolved into some kind of quasi-Carnivale with T-Bag from Prison Break—it’s probably not fair for me to judge; …
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This morning the White House crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, took their fame-n-shame tour to the Today show, where they told Matt Lauer that they were in fact invited guests at last month’s state dinner and revealed that… um, that someday they would reveal something. But man, when …
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Love him or hate him, success or failure, Jay Leno taking over NBC’s 10 p.m. slot is the biggest TV story of the year. And now that he’s been on-air for a couple months, the assessments of his ratings performance have been coming in.
On the one hand, Leno’s been the subject of one bad ratings story after another for weeks, as he some …
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In other respectable-news news, PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer–in a move originally planned for September–next month will rename itself The PBS NewsHour, taking the anchor’s name out of the title for the first time and pairing him with a rotation of co-anchors. In the process, the newscast plans a few changes to increase its metabolism, …
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We in the respectable media are not interested in Tiger Woods’ car crash for prurient reasons. Oh, no. We don’t care about what a celebrity, but a private citizen, may or may not have been doing with his extracurricular time. Nor do we care about the rush of viewers and readers—like you there, who came to this article by Googling …
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Quick spoilers for Dexter coming up after the jump:
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Further reinforcing the theory that reality TV participation is replacing surly reclusiveness as the chief warning sign of future acts of bizarre notoriety, the New York Times runs a page-one story today on the couple who crashed a Presidential state dinner—who were, naturally, under consideration as participants in Bravo’s Real …
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Brief spoilers for Modern Family coming up after the jump:
