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In this week’s print TIME, I review The Prisoner, which I found pretty to look at, but pretentious and incoherent. Which, since you’re probably going to ask, is not how I would describe the 1967 original, for all its surreality. Some of the problems with the new version stem from the way it tries to conceptually update the …
The New Museum in New York is getting spanked quite a bit lately for its upcoming show devoted to the contemporary art collection of one of its own trustees, the Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou.
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When I want to take a break and drive myself crazy, I look over my year-end best-TV-list candidates and try to whittle them down to 10. I didn’t realize until this year—with a surfeit of shows that could arguably land in a top 10—what a blessing the writers’ strike of 2008 was.
And next year could be even tougher. I haven’t seen any …
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That was quick: Less than 24 hours after Lou Dobbs abruptly left the air, CNN has announced he’ll be replaced by magic-wall-wrangler John King, hosting a daily political program. King’s show begins early next year. Thereby ensuring that the network’s 7 p.m. hour will not have to deal with future Dobbs-like controversies, or, most likely, …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:
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In an odd moment in a career that has not exactly lacked for said moments, crotchety CNN host Lou Dobbs abruptly announced on-air today that he is leaving the network where he has worked most of three decades (and hence, most of its existence). Leaving as in today. From his statement:
Over the past six months, it’s become increasingly
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No one could say they didn’t see this coming, but The Hollywood Reporter says it’s official: Dollhouse has been canceled. Fox, it reports, will finish running the rest of the 13 episodes of season 2.
Whenever a show with an intense fan base gets axed, there is wailing and gnashing and second-guessing. This is an especially …
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On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart busted Fox News’ Sean Hannity for doctoring coverage of a rally against the congressional health-care-reform bill, by intercutting it with footage from Glenn Beck’s much bigger 9/12 rally two months ago:
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Amid the recent charges from …
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When The Jay Leno Show premiered, the parlor game was guessing how well it would do against its big-network competition. Now it’s guessing which basic-cable show will beat it next. Jay’s been topped so far by Monday Night Football, Sons of Anarchy and SpongeBob (that last one not a direct competitor but still no badge of honor). In …
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It’ll be a while before I catch up on last night’s V, so I’ll let any interested fans DIY the discussion for now. Last week’s pilot ended up being the highest-rated new show premiere of the season (with the exception, I believe, of the Kanye-assisted premiere of The Jay Leno Show). The pilot was so lavish and effects-laden, though, …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
Not long ago, in connection with a story I’ll be posting soon on Time.com, I had a conversation with Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who heads the Santa Monica-based firm Morphosis. This fall New York got its first building by Mayne, a really compelling project in the East Village that holds offices, laboratories and …
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Does George Lopez own the song “Low Rider”? The classic War tune was the theme for his ABC comedy, and it also kicked off his new TBS talk show, where the multiethnic band’s ’70s anthem underscores an idea that Lopez re-underscored in his monologue: This was a show intended for an audience that “looks like America.” A point that, even if …
