Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Top 10 Biopics
As Clint Eastwood’s new film on the life of J. Edgar Hoover hits movie screens, TIME looks back at 80-plus years of films “based on the life of…”
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The Morning After: Chuck in Charge
It has become a refrain of certain commenters here—cough! Chaddogg! cough!—that Tuned In is not showing sufficient love to Chuck this season. Triage, my friends, triage. I’m liking Chuck better this season than I did the first, but (1) I tend to watch them in chunks, either on DVD long before they air, or on TiVo long after, and …
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Nonprofit Press Release Theater: PTC Decrees Pepsi Naughty, Coke Nice
“Decency” watchdog group the Parents Television Council today issued its “best and worst advertiser” lists, honoring and castigating the advertisers who advertise on what it judges the most and least family-friendly shows, respectively. The lists after the jump:
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Hannity &—Oh, Who Are We Kidding?
After the end of the year, Alan Colmes will not provide a spirited defense of liberalism to Sean Hannity on Hannity & Colmes. Unlike for the past 12 years, the reason will now be that Colmes is not on the show.
Fox News has announced that the often-outshouted left half of the cable debate show will be leaving Hannity & Colmes at the …
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Heroes Creator Apologizes to Saps
Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, caused a bit of a stir last week when he blamed Heroes’ ratings problems on DVR, DVD and online viewing—which, he said, left the show’s live ratings dependent on “saps and dips__ts” who didn’t know how to use technology.
Kring has now apologized, in an open letter to fans (from SyFy Portal, via
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TV Poll: What's on the Menu?
The Tuned In house is hosting Thanksgiving this year, for 18 people, so like many of you I’m combining work this week with back-of-my-mind menu planning and logistical calculations. And yet as much as people like to commiserate about the burden of Thanksgiving, I love it. I love cooking, but more to the point I love eating, and therefore …
There’s Got to Be a Morning After
Apologies to Maureen McGovern for that headline, but over the weekend the businessman/philanthropist Eli Broad made an incredible proposal to save the S.S. Poseidon the floundering L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art. In an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, Broad, who was the founding chairman of MOCA in 1979, said that his Broad Art …
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Finale Watch: Resurrections on HBO
Spoilers for True Blood and Entourage coming up after the jump:
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New Lost Trailer/Video/Thing
There’s a new promo for Lost / music video for The Fray’s “You Found Me,” containing old and new scenes from the series, which returns in January (along with Big Love, Flight of the Conchords, Battlestar Galactica, and it seems pretty much every other reason to watch television): …
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TV Weekend: 24: Redemption
Once upon a time there was a plan to shoot season 7 of 24 in Africa. In between then and now, the idea was scotched, for reasons I’m not completely clear on. What we have been left with is 24: Redemption, a two-hour movie / season 7 prequel that airs Sunday on Fox. In it, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is working at a school in a …
Tara Donovan
In Boston a few weeks ago I looked in on the splendid little Tara Donovan retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. You could say that Donovan’s art is an ingenious hybrid of rigorous post-Minimalism and traditional handcraft. The architect Louis Kanh used to famously ask “What does a brick want to be?” Donovan seems to …
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30 Rock Watch: Excuuuuse Me
Spoilers for 30 Rock coming up after the jump: