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For most of you, Friday Night Lights returns in two days on NBC. For those of you with DirecTV, Season 3 ends tonight. I probably made a mistake leaving FNL off my best-of-2008 list in December—while this season didn’t quite match the first, it did get back to the same sort of intimate stories and provided closure for longtime …
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Remember during the campaign, when MSNBC decided to pull Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchoring its coverage of political events? Remember when it seemed someone had realized that maybe it wasn’t the best journalistic idea to have straight-news coverage anchored by two hosts who so clearly had a dog in the fight?
Well, that …
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Some headlines from the programmers’ presentations to the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Los Angeles:
* In season 5 of Rescue Me, Daniel Sunjata’s character, Franco, will argue that 9/11 was an inside job and conspiracy. And Sunjata agrees with him.
* Prison Break has been sentenced to death.
* The Arrested …
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…same as the old Idol? Slightly changed? American Idol stomped Tyrannosaurus-like back onto the TV schedule last night. A few thoughts:
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Animal Planet announced a roster of new programming today. The release, included here solely because it contains the phrase “freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh,” appears after the jump:
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Two related news items on the TV-regulation front:
* The Parents Television Council issued a response to Sunday’s Golden Globes broadcast, in which The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky flipped his star Mickey Rourke the bird on camera: “It was disappointing that a small number of narcissistic performers placed their need to be vulgar …
Over the weekend Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg’s wife and collaborator, died at their home in L.A. Van Bruggen was a Dutch born art historian and a curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam when she met Oldenburg in 1970. At the time Oldenburg was just beginning his transition from his oversize soft sculptures of the 60s to …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Hours 3 and 4 of 24 season 7 aired last night, which means that you’re caught up to the point that I am. No spoilers here, except to note that last night revealed a certain twist that, judging from the comments at this and other discussion boards, everyone on the planet had already guessed. Will you be back for hour 5?
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Last night Slumdog Millionaire—the Danny Boyle film centered on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—cleaned up at the Golden Globes. Now it looks like the American version of Millionaire may be a winner too. ABC, reports TV Week, is considering bringing the show back for a summer run to mark its 10th anniversary. With …
People have been sending me e-mails lately that urge me to sign an online petition calling for Barack Obama to create a cabinet level Secretary of the Arts. It’s an idea that was floated a few weeks ago in an interview by the musical plenipotentiary Quincy Jones. At first glance the notion of a high profile champion of the arts has …
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The Television Critics Association winter press tour is going on now in sunny L.A., and I am following it online from freezing Brooklyn. So far, it seems, the biggest news to emerge has been something that didn’t happen—cancer-sufferer Patrick Swayze was hospitalized and missed the session for A&E’s The Beast. But here are some bits …
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While I grind away on deadline this morning, let me invite those of you who missed it to relive last night’s Golden Globes liveblog by Richard Corliss, Kate Betts and me, from the first strokes of Jay Manuel’s Glamastrator to the last piece of hardware given out. What were the high and lowlights for you?
