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I’m not really qualified to hold forth on VH1’s Rock of Love II, having joined the series for, oh, about the last half-hour of the finale (I won’t spoil, don’t worry). But it seems like the sort of show that inspires, um, passions, so I’ll throw this thread open to your opinions on Bret’s choice between Daisy and Ambre. On the one hand, …
Off again to this place. I’ll blog a few times from there. Back next Monday to this place.
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EW’s Doc Jensen visited the magical factory where Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof and various Oompa-Loompas make rich, chocolaty servings of Lost, and brings back some samples:
EW spent three days on the set of the drama, and judging from the looks of things — like the corpse that washes up on the sandy shores of Camp Jack and the raging
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Neither 30 Rock nor The Office is 100% back on its game after the strike yet, but last night’s episodes did a lot to show how different these partnered-up comedies are.
To overgeneralize a little, 30 Rock is mainly about jokes and The Office is mainly about characters. Neither …
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Two count them two articles in this week’s print Time magazine. My Tuned In column expands on this earlier riff about TLC’s new show Date My House to look at how cable’s empire of real-estate shows are dealing with—and even profiting from—the collapse of the same …
They’re doing it again. Every time you turn around the grand vision for Ground Zero is ground down another notch. This time it’s a two-fer — why not screw up two of the still unbuilt portions of the project at one time? One of those would be the …
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Spoilers about last night’s post-Idol Gives Back elimination (or was it?) episode coming up… after the break!
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So Katie Couric is leaving CBS earlier than planned, unless she’s not. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Couric may leave her third-place newscast by early next year, well before her contract expires in 2011; CBS is pushing back against the report elsewhere. True or not, this is one of those reports that would be denied right up …
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The show: 30 Rock
Returns: Tonight, NBC, 8:30 p.m. E.T.
Episode description: “MILF Island”—Jack Donaghy’s evil smash-hit reality-show concept reaches fruition on the screen. It’s clear that 30 Rock’s staff watches plenty of reality TV—including NBC’s own Age of …
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There’s a school of thought that journalists should limber up every once in a while by writing about stuff they don’t really know much about, and in that spirit, this morning I review Starbucks’ new Pike Place coffee for time.com. My qualification: drinking more coffee than is strictly good for me. My conclusion:
Starbucks says it took
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Let’s try something different this Happy Not-Lost Day. LDG—and, really, Lost discussion online in general—tends to be a little geeky and fanboy-ish. Lots of mythology, analysis and theorizing. The character aspects of the show, on the other hand, tend to get short shrift if not out-and-out derided, especially the relationships and …
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Idol Gives Back returned for a second year last night. Though a massive national charity show is never exactly going to be a political statement, I continue to be impressed that Idol chooses to focus on poverty issues, abroad …
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Continuing with the theme of my last post: maybe people get such a thrill from watching YouTube videos of bad things happening to TV news reporters because TV news gets such a kick out of endlessly replaying videos of bad things happening to other people. I’ve had cable news on in the background all day while taking care of other …
