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Via The Huffington Post, anchor Sue Simmons (whom non-NYCers may know from a reference in Fountains of Wayne’s Traffic and Weather) busts out Ron Burgundy-style with a profanity in the middle of a 11 p.m. news tease (NSFW, unless you curse a lot at work):
In fairness to Simmons, it is possible that randomly screaming “What the f___ …
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ABC announced its new fall drama in a Manhattan press conference this morning. That is not a typo: its new fall drama, singular, is a remake of the British show Life on Mars, in which a modern-day cop has a car accident and wakes up in what appears to be 1973. The network’s new reality show—singular—is Opportunity Knocks, a game show …
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In a bit of good upfront-week news, How I Met Your Mother was picked up for another season on CBS. That’s something to keep in mind when sitting through an episode like last night’s, with Britney Spears, who probably had at least a little to do with the decision …
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When you enter the NBC Universal Experience, the first thing you see is a wall of screens, none of them playing anything someone ten years ago would have recognized as TV. There are in-supermarket video/advertising displays and in-taxi displays. NBC Universal chief Jeff …
With Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House set to be auctioned tonight, lets get back to the subject of how to preserve great Modernist houses from the wrecking ball. (Or almost as bad, tacky renovations.)
As I said yesterday, to the extent that they publicize the value of Modernist houses as important works, auctions as a way to sell them …
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NBC already announced its fall schedule (or its fall schedule for now) a month ago, so its “upfront” today will consist mainly of—well, I’m not entirely sure, but it seems like it, like the other big-network upfronts, will be focused less on new shows than on new ways for advertisers to make money off shows. Such as this …
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We TV critics like to pretend we’re a heartless, puppy-kicking, candy-from-baby-taking bunch, but we’re as sentimental as anyone else. So don’t be surprised if you read a bit of a melancholy streak in the this week’s coverage of the big-network upfronts, which kick off today.
As I’ve mentioned, this week’s presentations will be a …
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SPOILER ALERT: Considering this episode of Battlestar Galactica aired Friday, you really have no excuse to have waited three days to watch it—um, like I did…
Mother’s Day plans, and the Survivor finale, got in the way of my normal …
I’ve been thinking lately about the best way to preserve Modernist houses, some of which have been going to the auction block and some to the chopping block. As you may have heard, the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Richard Neutra’s suave little exercise in High Modernism, is going …
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Making months of speculation official, it is being widely reported that NBC will announce today (at a press conference scheduled noon-ish) that Jimmy Fallon will succeed Conan O’Brien as host of Late Night.
It’s a brilliant, brilliant move. For Jimmy Fallon. For the rest of the parties involved, I’m not so sure. Granted, Conan O’Brien …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Survivor finale after the jump:
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Remember Tuned In’s lengthy whine the other day about massively packaged TV-network mailings? We get results!
BRAVO IS COMPLETELY GREEN WITH EMMY®
Network Offers On-Air And Online Screenings That Include Friday Viewing Marathons And Downloads On BravoTV.com/Emmy
NEW YORK – May 8, 2008 – Bravo is completely Green with Emmy – as
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When Time’s not breaking news, we’re making news! After last night’s big Time 100 bash in Manhattan—which neither I nor fellow Timeblogger Lisa Cullen attended—a Fox News production assistant got her walking papers for telling Sen. John McCain she voted for him in the primary, reports TV Newser. (Link via Romenesko.) “I voted for you …
