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I am not one to complain about more Top Chef in any form. I love the original, I liked Top Chef Masters, I even—in theory if not in first-season practice—liked Top Chef Just Desserts. But while I eventually grew used to the format of Top Chef Masters, I wished from the beginning that it could have had the same format as the …
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At this point, you could pretty much do the cast diagram of a typical Dancing With the Stars season yourself: some current/former athletes, a kids’ star, an old peoples’ star, some reality-show personalities, a where-are-they-now star, a minor pop/country singer or two—plus, in recent years, a wild card, like a controversial …
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Today, in a presentation conveniently following Keith Olbermann’s decision to join the network, Current TV announced a slate of new programming for the year 2011. It’s not the new, complementary news-and-views programming that (one assumes) new star and news chief Olbermann will recruit to air along with his primetime show. That will …
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Viacom, owner of MTV, Comedy Central and other valuable properties on the Monopoly board of cable TV, has finally cut a deal with Hulu to make its shows available on the online video service. But, for most of its shows, it’ll cost you. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will now be online …
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That’s right: MTV has announced that the fourth season of its hit Jersey Shore will send Snooki and the gang to The Boot, as part of the series’ ongoing effort to promote positive images of Italian American culture. I am hoping that it will look something like this (see above). …
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There used to be an unspoken deal between the British and Americans regarding television. Their part of the deal was that they would be allowed on our programs either as reality-show villains or if they adopted unrecognizable mid-Atlantic accents like Hugh Laurie.
Our part of the deal was, there was no our part of the deal. We’re …
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With Breaking Bad and Mad Men collecting awards hardware and The Walking Dead smashing ratings records, AMC is not letting up. Today, it announced that it is picking up to series Hell on Wheels, a Western about an ex-Confederate soldier after the Civil War who heads west to work on the Transcontinental Railroad and seek revenge. I …
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I’ll admit I’ve never been a particular fan of The Closer, but for those of you who are, a bit of unfortunate and surprising news: next year’s season seven will be the last, because star Kyra Sedgwick has decided she’s done with it.
If it’s bad news for Closer fans, it must be worse for TNT, since the series has been one of the reliably …
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If you’ve been wondering if AMC’s The Walking Dead would get a second season after its six-episode debut one, you can probably relax. The zombie series ate the guts out of all previous AMC ratings records, getting 5.3 million viewers for its first airing alone. (By comparison, Rubicon debuted at around a million, and Mad Men, well …
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HBO today announced a premiere date (Jan. 16) for the fifth season of Big Love, and announced that the season will be its last. I’m filing this under Things I Sort of Thought Were Already Announced; it had at least been intimated for a while that the polygamy drama would wrap up with five seasons. And while I’ve been a fan of the …
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Conan O’Brien starts a talk show, he gets Tom Hanks to come by; that’s just the tradition. TBS’s Conan announced it’s first week of guests today, and along with longtime O’Brien stalwart Hanks, he’ll have Seth Rogen, Jack McBrayer (take that, NBC!), Jon Hamm and Julie Bowen. Let’s hope Hanks can avoid being hit by a meteor this …
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President Obama and Discovery Channel announced today that the chief executive will appear on the Dec. 8 episode of Mythbusters. And surprisingly, the myth being busted has nothing to do with either Islam or Kenyan birth certificates.
On the episode, Obama will ask Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to test whether it was possible for the …
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One’s about disturbed minds, one’s about disembodied minds, and fans of HBO’s therapy drama In Treatment and Syfy’s artificial-intelligence drama Caprica can all set their minds at ease: each show is coming back in October.
Caprica, whose fans were initially told they’d have to wait until next year for the second half of the first …
