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Britney, Shmitney: the real stars of MTV are returning to your TV tonight, as The Hills comes back, and we discover that Lauren’s voyage to Paris is not all baguettes and pamplemousse:
The best part of that clip, as in most Hills episodes, is not the action (Lauren hearing that Brody is catting around) but the reaction: Whitney’s glib …
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First Britney Spears was the subject of a surprisingly (if grotesquely) sympathetic South Park episode last week. Now tonight she takes a much-hyped role on How I Met Your Mother. Ideally, the appearance gives Britney some flattering screen time, on a show that’s not speculating as to what substances she’s ingesting or how she’s raising …
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I’ve been watching an inordinate amount of Fox News lately for an upcoming column, and Friday there was a bizarre incident in the saga of The Great Fox Jeremiah Wright Pile-On of 2008. Fox and Friends had Fox Sunday host Chris Wallace on as a guest, and Wallace began his segment by giving the hosts an on-air tongue-lashing for unfairly …
I was in Athens last October to get an early look at the New Acropolis Museum, which opens this fall. As you probably know, its chief purpose will be to display the surviving Parthenon marbles, roughly half of which are in Greece. The other half, the Elgin …
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Regular readers of Tuned In know that I am not a big follower of sports, but I am given to understand that it is the NCAA basketball tournament, which means that fans across the nation are dropping everything to watch as talented young men in short pants hurl the basketball at the basketball ring. I thought I’d offer up a thread for the …
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CBS has canceled Jericho, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tuesday’s season finale will also be the series finale.
Expect fans to rail, gnash their teeth and organize protest, but given the lower ratings than last season and CBS’s pretty clear statements that season 2 would have to draw more fans for the show to survive, all the …
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It’s looking like a light posting day, partly because I’m on a deadline, partly because Good EidFridayPurim has made this a Bring the Tuned In Jrs. to Work Day. In the meantime, I invite you to entertain yourselves by reading something you already read …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, unpack the crate in your room, open the suitcase inside, press the red button and watch Lost.
So we found out what Michael is doing on the boat and who got him there, but, as Hurley said of an earlier revelation in this …
When I first heard that part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial would consist of “events” at the Park Avenue Armory that aren’t usually thought of as art, I wondered how I might cover one or two. But which one. The 24-hour dance marathon? Too tiring. The gypsy …
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Tonight on Lost, we will purportedly learn more about Michael, and as teased by the ABC promo department, Someone! Will! Die! (Doc Jensen speculates as to who; feel free to add your guesses.) And then the show goes on a strike-forced hiatus for a month.
While we wait for new episodes, I suspect that a mini-session of Lost Discussion …
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Today’s Tuned In poll idea comes courtesy of time.com editor Josh Tyrangiel, and it’s appropriate for the morning after American Idol, Top Chef and Survivor. The headline says it all: Which reality show does the best job of kicking participants off and why?
Just in some of reality’s most popular shows, there are a wide range of …
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Top Chef: Chicago is still sitting in my TiVo menu like a frozen dinner. In the meantime, feel free to leave your spoilery thoughts in the comments. Next week, I understand we’ll be seeing guest chef Rick Bayless, of Chicago’s upscale Mexican eateries Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. Should be picante.
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Brief, spoilery thoughts on last night’s American Idol elimination coming up… after the break!
