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ABC’s deal with Hulu begins today, starting with episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and continuing with new series unrolling throughout the month. And it’s about time. ABC still makes its series available through ABC.com, but I’ve always been irritated by that sites insistence on making me click to continue watching after the 30-second ads, and …
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If for no other reason than a mild validation of my own career, I have to be happy whenever someone else decides that there is a business plan, even in this economic climate, to a website devoted entirely to news and opinion about the media. Mediaite launched today, a combination of Mediabistro and Gawker that promises not to be …
Yinka Shonibare, the London-based artist of Nigerian descent, was in New York recently to install his new retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. While he was here we grabbed some lunch to talk about his background and his art. In this first part of the conversation we discuss the evolution of his best known works, the satires of …
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I didn’t end up watching a tremendous amount of TV on vacation, owing to (1) staying in a beach house without a DVD player, (2) it being the last week of June / first week of July (no Top Chef Masters? What gives?), (3) only being able to take so many Michael Jackson thanatopses, and (4) um, being on vacation.
I did read, though, and …
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In the issue of TIME that came out last Friday and that was not about Michael Jackson’s Death, I have a column about the rash of primetime medical shows breaking out (rash? medical? get it?), and how they reflect the health care debate going on in Washington. If you’ll journey back with me to 1994, you’ll recall that the last time …
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I’m back! Also, I was gone! In today’s The Morning After, I throw open discussion to many of the TV and media events that happened while I was on vacation, including but not limited to:
* Michael Jackson’s death continues to be news. Michael Jackson’s death will never stop being news. It is simply a permanent part of our culture now. …
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It’s Independence Day weekend, so here’s an historically appropriate last poll of the week: The British version of The Office or the American? Which is better and why? Brent or Scott? Tim/Dawn or Jim/Pam? Be ye patriot or Tory?
Have fun, shoot off some fireworks, stir up some bitter trans-Atlantic rivalries, and I’ll see you next week.
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This is Robo-James. While my programmer rests his weak flesh-husk on vacation, you are invited to use this space to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions.
Back Monday.
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Before heading on vacation, I got into a Twitter exchange with Maureen Ryan over whether we’d pick HBO or Showtime if we could take only one. (My pick: HBO if the choice were for all time, Showtime [for Nurse Jackie] if it were this summer only.)
It’s a fun, often-asked question, but it also got me thinking. We’re getting to the point …
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This is Robo-James. While my programmer rests his weak flesh-husk on vacation, you are invited to use this space to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions.
I hadn’t heard much recently about the plan Sarah Jessica Parker announced last year to co-produce a Top Chef-style artists’ competition show for cable TV. I thought the slump in the art market, and the attendant downward plummet of the Artworld Glamor Index, might mean that the whole idea had gone away. But it turns out that things …
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My favorite’s Bob Costas. I’m not sure he should wear that as a badge of honor, because as I have said often, I don’t watch sports. But he always radiates this lively intelligence and curiosity, which makes me think that I’d love to hear him take on topics other than sports. Which he occasionally does, but the man’s a sportscaster, so I …
