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He can’t predict what’s going to happen, either. BOB D’AMICO / ABC
Halloween is the witching hour for the Writers’ Guild and the networks, as the midnight deadline (spooky!) looms for the strike. Today’s Variety runs down the programming scenarios. (And notes that the writers may decide to wait a week or so before walking out.) The …
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Every once in a while as a critic, you have an “Is it me or is it them?” review–one on which you part company with pretty much every peer in the world. Most of the ones I’ve had in the past (the American version of The Office [pro], Studio 60, Fat Actress annd Bette [con]), I’ve stood by. But maybe you’ll disagree with me about last …
Let’s finish up that talk with Dimitrios Pandermalis, who heads the new Acropolis Museum project.
LACAYO: I know you’re familiar with the concept of the universal museum, the idea that great works of art are the common heritage of mankind and should be distributed among museums around the world. What do you think of …
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Despite the NBC minisodes’ best efforts to warn me away, I’ll be seeing a screening of Bee Movie with the rest of the Tuned In family. I’m just sayin’. Actual viewing of the television machine curtailed accordingly.
For those of you at home and uninterested in another episode of Carpoolers, however, may I suggest The Undertaking, PBS’s …
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“It’s not about boys. It’s about me.” –Isabella
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I started this post with Isabella’s quote, but I could add Katie’s from a few episodes ago, when she discussed her daughter’s early puberty with her doctor: “It’s like a horror movie.” Katie was talking about the various environmental influences–movies, Barbie dolls, …
Dimitrios Pandermalis is the president of the New Acropolis Museum Project. (Until the museum opens, there’s no one with the title of director.) Last week he gave me a tour of the new building. Then we sat down for a conversation about the new museum, the Elgin Marbles and whether the British should be persuaded to send them back to …
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Ah, Nip/Tuck. Let me tell you what I don’t like about yourself.
For a few seasons, Ryan Murphy’s arch, audacious plastic-surgery drama was one of the most ludicrously provocative treats on TV–not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure. There were murders, coupling of every possible combination of characters, …
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NBC Photo: Dean Hendler
So nice to see HRG back to being a badass again! Or at least an essentially-good-but-forced-to-be-bad-for-the-sake-of-his-family-though-it-may-come-at-the-cost-of-his-soul-ass. Killing someone for information is bad. Taking someone’s memories for information is bad. But taking someone’s memories to extract …
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I’ve reached my peace with Chuck: I like it, but don’t feel compelled to watch it every week. So I’ll let you do that for me. Or update us on The Big Bang Theory, the Bachelor season that I’ve totally ignored or–hey, we never talk about Monday Night Football! I understand from Friday Night Lights that that’s a sport, correct?
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Fox’s Are You Smarter passes the PTC’s test. Does it pass yours? Rachel Devine/FOX
I tend to be hard on the Parents Television Council and its campaigns for TV decency, but in truth the PTC is a bit of a two-edged sword. Some of its efforts–the most-publicized ones, which I spend the most time bashing–involve agitating for stronger …
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Well, that was fast. For all the attention that’s gone to the Tyra-Landry stalker-killing subplot, I’m more bothered by how quickly Jason Katims decided to undo Coach Taylor’s abandonment of the Panthers to coach college ball. Yeah, I realize this is TV; yeah, I realize that everyone expected that somewhere, …
From silent vampires to animated murders to sharks that won’t die, TIME chronicles the best from more than a century’s worth of big-screen scares
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Here’s a TV business story that could actually affect the way some of you watch TV: The FCC is reportedly preparing to strike down contracts that limit apartment building residents to one exclusive cable company. In theory, anyway, this could lead to that most mythical and dreamed-of scenario for TV viewers: the ability to choose among …
