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Art Smith may not have been the winning chef on Top Chef Masters, but he was the best at bringing the drama, associating food with emotions and generally oversharing. (As befits a guy who used to be Oprah’s chef.) Also, he specialized in the kind of down-home food that people like to eat, and to ogle on TV.
So it makes sense that he …
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Even if I covered music, I probably would have a hard time taking the American Music Awards very seriously as an awards show. That doesn’t make the performers last night any less famous/spectacular/insane, though. And as a further TV angle the show included, among other things, the primetime-TV bow of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert …
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Have you heard what one of Obama’s czars is saying now? Apparently this guy is out there telling people that he’s assembled a council of advisers to chart a new course for America. He wants to undo the last century of American history. And he—get this—says the U.S. needs “a …
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Spoilers for last night’s Curb Your Enthusiasm season finale coming up after the jump:
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Oprah Winfrey made it official on air today: on Sept. 9, 2011, she pulls the plug on the talk show that has dominated daytime TV for two decades. Says the Queen: “Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit.” Mo Ryan has the full statement. (In related news, Discovery announced a launch date of January 2011 for …
They tell us the Great Recession is in retreat, though it may not feel that way if you’re unemployed. Even if it is, on the way out the door it took down a project I was looking forward to. Earlier this week the University of California at Berkeley announced that it was giving up on its plan to build a new home for the Berkeley Art …
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Haven’t yet watched last night’s Project Runway finale, owing to other blogging priorities and longer-term deadlines. And, to be honest, also owing to the fact that I have not been able to work up much interest in this season of what used to be one of my favorite reality shows.
Was it the casting? As opposed to Top Chef, which has …
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NBC’s Thursday sitcoms observed Green Is Universal Week in ways larger (subplots in Community and 30 Rock) and smaller (Recyclops and a “carbon neutral” reference in The Office, um, shooting at nature in Parks and Recreation). Time to review, recap and recycle!
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Also out today, elsewhere at time.com, is TIME’s entertainment holiday gift guide (you can scan the full list here), within which I have a few DVD-set suggestions, including collections of Rome, Futurama, thirtysomething, The Shield and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. That Very Sunny Christmas disc came across my desk too late for this, but …
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My Tuned In column in this week’s TIME looks at Sarah Palin’s media blitz behind Going Rogue this week, and her similarity to another kind of 21st-century media personality:
Summing up her family’s public experience for Barbara Walters, she said, “Our life has become kind of a reality show.” It’s a near perfect analogy. Like a
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According to several reports, Oprah Winfrey will announce tomorrow that she is ending her talk show in 2011. The show, reportedly, will bow out Sept. 9, 2011, the last day of Oprah’s current contract. It bears mentioning that there have been announcements and reports that the Queen of Talk would hang it up in the past; in 2002, her plan …
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Not to be outdone by ABC’s announcement of the Lost premiere (oh, they’re still outdone, but nonetheless), NBC announced that Chuck is returning to TV Sunday, Jan. 10, before moving to its regular Mondays at 8 p.m. E.T. timeslot the next day. Word is the show will produce 19 episodes, not the originally ordered 13.
So rejoice again. But …
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Mark it on your calendars: The final season of Lost officially returns Tuesday, Feb. 2 (appropriately, it has been noted, on Groundhog Day), at 9 p.m. E.T., which will be the show’s regular time slot.
Pros: Tuesday is a relative dry patch on the TV schedule, whereas Wednesday and especially Thursday are pile-ups. Also, Mrs. …
