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Human Beings Rejoice! Community Returns to NBC March 15
When NBC pulled Community from its schedule in December, saying it would bring the show back in midseason, fans began to spin all sorts of dark predictions as to what would happen to the show. Well, if you bet on “NBC will bring …
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NBC Announces: America’s Got Howard Stern
Your chances of winning the next edition of America’s Got Talent for butt bongo just got better.
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Prison Break: Fox Slates Alcatraz, Idol, New Kiefer Drama for Midseason
For the past several seasons, midseason—the stretch of the TV calendar starting in January—has been when Fox’s season really began in earnest, as it brought out powerhouses like American Idol and, back in the day, 24. That’s …
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HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner
HBO announced today that it signed a new contract with one of its favorite writers, David Milch, who created Deadwood, John from Cincinnati and various projects that never made air for the network, and whose horseracing drama Luck debuts next month. (A sneak preview will air Dec. 11.) In connection with the deal, the network has also …
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Can’t Stop the Zombies: The Walking Dead Gets a Third Season
Since its second season debuted Oct. 16 to ratings that would (and I assume did) make broadcast networks envious, you should have expected this, but AMC made it official: The Walking Dead will swarm across your TV for a third season.
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Zombies Devour Ratings Record! 7.3 Million for Walking Dead
Amid the off-season drama over AMC’s The Walking Dead—in which the network cut the series’ budget and ushered out showrunner Frank Darabont—hung the question: was the network going to, er, cannibalize its zombie drama and …
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Breaking News! HBO Picks Up Sorkin’s Cable-News Series
While this may not count as the most stunning development in TV, HBO has made it official: it’s greenlighted a season of Aaron Sorkin‘s yet untitled drama set at a cable news network, starring Jeff Daniels as a talented but difficult high-profile anchor.
With little to go on but the premise and Sorkin’s history, I’m excited, and I’m nervous.
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The Sing-Off Names New, Super-Sized Cast
Because Tuned In aims to be your one-stop source of information on The Most Important Show on Television, The Sing-Off, I wanted to get you the list of the 16 competing groups for the new, longer version of the a cappella competition that will air starting in September.
The main distinguishing feature of the list is its size, the …
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The Real Muslims of Dearborn: TLC Announces Islam Reality Show
For a while now, people have batted around the idea of whether and when TV would give us a Muslim Cosby Show: that is, a TV series that would take a mass audience inside the family life of this cultural group for the first time, the way that the Huxtables were the first black family that millions of white viewers tuned to on a regular …
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May the Minifigures Be With You
I’ve been busy today closing a feature on Breaking Bad (which will be in TIME Friday) and writing a review of George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons (which will post here tomorrow morning). So I have been a bad, bad blogger today. You deserve better than that, so here are some pictures of Lego Star Wars minifigures.
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TNT Is Remaking Dallas. Why Are You Remaking Dallas, TNT?
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TNT has ordered ten episodes of a remake of Dallas, to start airing next year. Why?
I should issue the standard disclaimers. It’s all in the execution; I loved the Battlestar Galactica reboot; I hope to eat my words, &c. But Dallas seems to be less in need of remaking than even the …
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It's Not TV, It's Netflix; Fincher/Spacey House of Cards Set for Late 2012
It’s official: Netflix is getting into the business of producing first-run series. House of Cards, a remark of a British political thriller, from David Fincher and Kevin Spacey will debut in late 2012 on the—movie club? channel? things-you-watch-on-a-screen service?
The timing, of course, will coincide with a U.S. Presidential …