SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off The Muppet Show on your monitor and watch Lost.
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Corporate Press Release Theater: I Got No Time for the Corner Boys…
Is Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise more expandable than CSI? We’ll find out soon as, per the release appearing after the jump, The Real Housewives of New Jersey debuts in May:
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Idol Predictions: The Tuned In Index
One advantage of moving the American Idol weekly reviews to the blog here, as opposed to putting them elsewhere on time.com, is that I get to see the traffic generated by each individual singer’s review. Which led me to wonder: Does a singer’s Tuned In traffic correspond to his or her voting rank? Can Tuned In predict the Idol results? …
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TV Critic Exposes His Twitter in Public
A little over a week ago, I opened a Twitter account (1) to follow other writers I know who post there, (2) because learning to write in 140-character tweets is much-needed discipline for me, and (3) so that I could someday write the above headline.
I resisted joining Twitter for a while, mainly because, as a journalist’s tool, it …
Talking to Neal Benezra
I was out in San Francisco last week to catch an advance look at the William Kentridge show that opened March 14 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — more on that later — and to check in on the nearly complete rooftop sculpture garden that SFMOMA is building on top of its adjacent parking garage. (Opens May 10.) While I was …
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Lost Discussion Group: Spirit of '77
Namaste! Lost returns from its halftime break—hope you had time to make a sandwich and hit the bathroom—with tonight’s episode, titled “Namaste,” which promises to be quite Dharma-heavy again. To kick off the pregame discussion, let’s talk about the impact of having so much of the story now set (seemingly for the duration, but you …
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Idol Predix Thread
My Idol reviews are online, directly below, in that post that looks like the American Idol Season 8 Commemorative Stamp Collection. Because it seems ungainly to throw a roundup and predictions into the same post, I thought I’d give my predictions for tonight here:
I have no idea.
Well, not no idea. If forced to pick, my money’s on …
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Judging American Idol: The Final 11
Click on the photos for reviews.
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Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day!
Someday, the kindly folks who run the time.com blogs will enable me to embed videos from Hulu. Until then, from Lisa Simpson and I… Sláinte.
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Corporate Press Release Theater: HGTV Hunkers Down
Although the bursting of the housing bubble hasn’t kept me from watching marathons of House Hunters episodes, these and other real-estate shows—with anxious buyers rushing to stretch their budgets and pull the trigger on houses—increasingly seem like remnants of a lost, prosperous time, artifacts of some ancient civilization dug from …
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Barack Obama: The Series!
In an effort to buck up the national mood and sell his economic plans, President Obama is considering a series of ten-minute addresses on TV, reports Slate’s John Dickerson. (The White House offered few details, but I would have to guess they’re talking about primetime.) A few thoughts:
* Obama has gotten attention for using YouTube to …
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Morning Roundup
Have miscellaneous bidness to attend to this morning, so chew on these info-nuggets in the meantime:
* David Chase is making a miniseries for HBO about the history of the film industry in the twentieth century. The final night will be a two-hour silent blank screen.
* The ratings are in, and Kings got its crown handed to it.
* …
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HIMYM Watch: Fictions of Lily
Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump: