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Oh, there was a new Top Chef last night. It’s still on my TiVo. Discuss it happily in the comments, and I’ll happily ignore you until I catch up.
In the meantime, do you love Top Chef but wish there was more of it? And that it had more of a focus on the competently crowd-pleasing food of your local Chili’s? Well, wish no more! NBC …
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In these tough economic times, I’m not sure I can in good conscience tell anyone to spend $27 retail (currently $16 at Amazon) for what amounts to an double-length single episode of a current TV sitcom. On the other hand, hell, the economy needs stimulus, and if you’re inclined to blow the money this holiday season (or have someone …
We got news this morning of the death of Jeanne-Claude, the artist and creative partner of Christo. They are of course the husband-and-wife team who wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, ran a vast curtain fence for miles across the northern California landscape and created the completely enchanting New York City project called The Gates. …
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Mrs. Tuned In, a graphic design connoisseur (or is that connoisseuse?), pointed me to this way-cool tumblr blog, which proposes pared-down title graphics for a series of modern and classic TV shows. Each poster, by designer Albert Exergian, boils down a show to a single essential image, as with Six Feet Under, pictured, or, cleverly, …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s Modern Family after the jump:
Actually, the writer Raymond Carver never cared for the word “Minimalism” as the way to describe his taut, tight-lipped short stories. But that was the term they came to be known by in the late 1970s and ’80s, when he was at the height of his influence in American fiction. In this week’s Time I took a detour from my art and architecture …
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NBC has set the date for next year’s Emmy Awards early, in more ways than one. Nine months in advance, it’s announcing a date—of Sunday, August 29. NBC (which airs football on Sundays during the NFL season) notes, a bit defensively, that when it aired the Emmys in August 2006, it “was the highest-rated entertainment program of that …
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Spoilers for the finale of AMC’s The Prisoner, which if you cared enough about you have already watched but remain spoilers nonetheless, after the jump:
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Watching the abbreviated launch of V is a strange experience: the show will air only four episodes (one more is left) before vanishing to reappear in midseason, and when it returns, it will have a new showrunner, so it’s anyone’s guess how the series will be retooled. It’s less like a TV series than notes toward a TV series, with the …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
Okay, not the movie — but the podcast!
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When Lie to Me debuted last season, I was impressed not just with Tim Roth’s performance but with the show’s procedural efficiency, its blend of science and story, and, above all, its whole-hearted embrace of its essentially cynical (and I don’t mean that as an insult) premise: everyone, or nearly everyone, lies. That said, it wasn’t the …
