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The team of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin cleaned their runningmates’ clocks last night, according to preliminary results from Nielsen. The debate—fueled by tremendous curiosity about Palin and held on the most watched night of TV of the week—drew an overall 45.0 rating, compared with 31.6 for the McCain-Obama debate Friday. (The rating …
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Apropos of this morning’s Clone Wars post…
I received a screener DVD collection of season one of The Smurfs yesterday and promptly hid it. For most people, that would be a natural reaction to traumatic childhood memories of Gargamel. For me, it’s that I don’t want my children to find it, and thereby know of The Smurfs’ …
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On time.com today, I’ve got a roundup review of this fall’s bevy of imported/remade series from overseas showing up on American TV. (A shorter version should be in next week’s print TIME.) I also look a little bit at the general trickiness of adapting shows …
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A brief review in the print TIME this week on Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series, which debuts tonight. The gist: If you judge it against the original trilogy, it’s awful, like this summer’s movie was. If you judge it as intended—basically, as a moving action toy—it’s visually impressive, though the characters are inexcusably wooden …
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So the debate between Sarah Palin and That Other Guy is over. (You can still find our the debate liveblog here, if you missed it.) Both candidates cleared the almost-impossible-to-miss bars set for them, Joe Biden not melting into a puddle of gaffes, Palin not turning into a version of her SNL parody. She was confident and assertive (if …
I spent some time last week in San Francisco with Renzo Piano before the opening of his new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.
Then I wrote about the Age of Piano in this week’s Time.
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Quick spoilers for the season premiere of Friday Night Lights after the jump:
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I will be liveblogging the VP debate tonight, with TIME political and national correspondents Karen Tumulty and Michael Grunwald. Look for it here.
[Update: In response to demand from last debate’s commenters, all three of us will be posting in one big thread. So you can watch the trend of discussion as we and your fellow commenters get …
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Only a small and petty man says I told you so. I am a small and petty man.
For a while now, I’ve been skeptical about the wisdom of the networks’ decision not to bring back some of their high-profile new shows last year after the strike. Instead, they kept shows like Chuck, Pushing Daisies and Private Practice off the air for almost a …
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The Gender Factor Is Overblown. From the second Sarah Palin was nominated, there’s been breathless talk about how Biden was boxed in: he couldn’t debate her too aggressively, or treat her too gently, because he would look like a sexist pig. I’m not sure whether this line of reasoning is more insulting to Palin or to voters, but in any …
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Besides “expectations,” that is.
The forum. Beyond the content of her answers, the most damaging element of Sarah Palin’s interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric was her self-presentation. She seemed nervous—really nervous—tensing up, running sentences together and seeming to throw out verbiage defensively, like squid ink. …
Since not many people can get to London to see Francis Bacon at the Tate, my friends here at Time.com figured we should do the next best thing and bring a taste of the show to you.
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Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump.
