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Last week I wrote a post on why journalists should disclose who they vote for in elections. As you might have guessed from the fact that almost no journalists do disclose who they vote for in elections, mine is still a minority view.
Such a minority view, in fact, that there’s still a debate raging (well, mildly raging) about whether …
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One of the more interesting bits of strike fallout news: 24 co-creator Joel Surnow is leaving the show to develop new projects. Surnow, students of 24 know, is a rare Hollywood conservative, and the chief point of ire for critics who say the show is a shill for a hard-right, torture-em-all-let-God-sort-em-out view of …
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The writers’ strike officially ended today, which means it’s time to assess who won and who lost. At the Kansas City Star, Aaron Barnhart generally credits the writers with a win, while the New York Times’ David Carr …
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American Idol decided to retool its Hollywood-audition round this season, eliminating the singing-group competitions. I always liked the model-U.N. vibe of these episodes, with the contestants pulling all-nighters with strangers and working out harmony and choreography, …
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* The strike is almost over, but Jericho still stands to be one of its biggest beneficiaries, since the aftereffects have wiped some of the competition off the schedule for the seven-episode second season, saved by the efforts of fans …
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Cartoon Network announced today that it snared the rights to the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which will debut this fall. This is not the previously discussed live-action series that’s been bandied about, but all-CG-animated half-hour …
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If all goes according to plan, the writers will go pencils-up and return to work tomorrow. What may come as a surprise to the casual viewer, though, is that the coming months on TV will in many ways look strike-ier than the months when there actually was a strike. That’s because it will be March or April before many scripted shows are …
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“Are you watching porn?” Mrs. Tuned In had walked in the living room to see, on the big screen, a young gentleman in a bathing suit sort of, well, crawling on top of a young lady on a hotel bed. No, I was in fact watching My Network TV’s Paradise Hotel 2, the sleaziest of the sleazy reality shows, the …
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I have been at this job long enough–or have just gotten old and senile enough–that I constantly come across articles I forgot I had ever written. While searching time.com for an old essay to link to in my Wire Watch, the site threw me a link to an article about women presidents in pop culture.
I was intrigued. Turns out I wrote it! …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Wire yet, jump out the window now, while you still have the chance.
“Don’t seem possible. That’s some Spiderman sh_t there.”
If you’d forgotten how funny The Wire can be, the manhunt of Marlo’s crew for Omar had to remind you. Marlo’s …
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I went to the Project Runway finalists’ Fashion Week show at Bryant Park Friday morning. I wasn’t originally planning on blogging much, because I figured there wasn’t much I could blog without spoiling things. Bravo, evidently, has a different policy on spoilers, as it immediately issued a press release, which spilled the beans that I …
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The strike’s not over yet, although with a tentative deal having been struck, all reports indicate that it could be done by Wednesday. Which means the networks have begun figuring out what a resumed TV season will look like. A Bill Carter article in today’s New York Times looks at what we will and won’t see and when. The salient point …
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Tuned In’s editor and Time music critic Josh Tyrangiel offers up his rundown of the duet-heavy Grammy Awards, highlighted by the appearance by satellite of human car-crash Amy Winehouse, elsewhere on time.com. Thoughts? Dissensions? Were you taken by the awards, or did you say no, no, no?
