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At the last minute last week, I shifted gears from doing a writeup for season 5 of Rescue Me in favor of reviewing In Treatment for the print TIME. Then other things came up, so I never got through my full batch of screeners of the Denis Leary show, which returns tonight on FX. But a quick recommendation: even if you got tired of it …
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Probably not a huge surprise, but EW’s Ausiello reports that Kings will have its remaining (and final) episodes burned off on Saturdays, starting April 18. On the other hand: At least they’ll air. Also: network drama on Saturdays!
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After the jump, TIME writer and House aficionado John Cloud shares his (spoilery! you’ve been warned!) thoughts on last night’s House:
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According to a CNBC announcement, stockpicker and Jon Stewart punching bag Jim Cramer celebrates his 1,000th episode tomorrow. (CNBC actually went to the trouble of counting the number of “boo-yahs” on Mad Money—over 1,500, a surprisingly low figure.) Judging from the reaction to the recent Daily Show smackdown of Cramer, many other …
Let’s finish up that conversation with Frederick Ilchman, who co-curated the smart and hilariously lustrous new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, “Rivals in Renaissance Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese.”
LACAYO: In the fall of 2006 your museum reached an agreement with the Italian culture ministry to give back to Italy 13 …
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I’ve been on Twitter for a few weeks now, long enough to have ascertained a few things:
* It’s a great repository for my observations and jokes that are too trivial and superficial even for this blog—and boy, do I have plenty of those.
* Twitter is superior to Facebook, because it is better to have “followers” than “friends.”
* …
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Quick thoughts on last night’s installment of Breaking Bad (mild spoilers below):
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Sorry for the light posting today, but dealing with a deadline. In the meantime, may I interest you in…
* The New York Times’ David Carr gets an early look at the taping of David Simon’s New Orleans’ drama, Treme
* Tom Braden, the author and liberal pundit who gave us both Eight is Enough and Crossfire, is dead at age 92
* And …
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I’m not sure when or if I’ll have a chance to blog much of this weekend’s TV—Breaking Bad, Dollhouse, In Treatment, the United States of Tara finale—so consider this an open thread in the meantime. I also wanted to put in a word for Kings, whose episode last night was the first I hadn’t been sent in advance by NBC. Though the ratings …
I was up in Boston last Thursday and Friday, mainly to look in on “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice”. That would be the very pleasurable new loan show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts about the ways that the Big Three of 16th-century Venetian painting pushed each other’s buttons for decades. It remains …
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Boston, it is often said, was the cradle of the American Revolution. And today it is the site of an all-out rebellion between a colony (the NBC affiliate) and its distant overlord (NBC). Boston’s WHDH says it will not air Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. talk show next fall, and will put a newscast in its place instead–the TV equivalent of a shot …
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Former Swamplander Ana Marie Cox is guest-hosting on Air America from noon to 3 p.m. E.T. today, and I’ll be on with her somewhere around 1:30, talking about matters TV-related.
I’m told the interview will be available on something called a “radio.” If you don’t have one handy, and are not near an antiques shop, you can find a live …
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The show that kicked off TLC’s giant brood of shows about families with giant broods, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, was picked up for a fifth season, it was announced yesterday at Discovery’s upfront presentation. As the Zap2It article linked here suggests, you might wonder whether putting the family on camera again is such a hot idea, given …
