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One more item of mine in the print TIME I forgot to mention. Discovery’s Shark Week begins Sunday, and I reviewed the first two installments:
MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28
MythBusters uses its
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The third and final act of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog drops this weekend. (The show stays up free through the weekend; thereafter it’s available for download through iTunes.) Those of you who are interested probably already know that. For those of you who aren’t interested—yet—here’s a taste:
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Besides Generation Kill, this weekend sees tonight’s debut of Flashpoint, a CBS crime drama—about a police special task force—notable mostly for the fact that it’s a rare Canadian import on U.S. TV,* having been ordered partly as insurance against the possibility that the writers’ strike would …
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Adult Swim’s newest comedy, debuting Sunday night, may not necessarily be the best show of 2008. But it has probably already won the award for best title of 2008. Fat Guy Stuck in Internet, is, like Snakes on a Plane, the kind of it-is-what-it-is title that practically …
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Discovery’s next big docu-showcase, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, is another example of the technological limitations of contemporary TV criticism. The multi-night history of the space program, beginning Sunday night, arrived in …
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Back when I did a column on HBO’s Recount, I thought, and may have made the mistake of saying in public, that I would give the movie a longer review-review when it was about to come out. Well, here we are, it’s the Friday before Memorial Day, I’m finishing up something for the magazine, it’s 70 degrees and sunny in New York City and …
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Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls returns tonight, continuing season 2, which began airing episodes last fall. The controversy last year, in which it was discovered that Grylls occasionally stayed at resorts and had assistance from the crew accompanying him, did not finish off the show, whose premise is that Grylls …
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In another thread yesterday, someone asked why I hadn’t posted more on the return (tonight) of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve seen the premiere episode and reviewed it, briefly, in this week’s Time…
Battlestar Galactica Sci Fi; Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T. Company’s coming!
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While HBO looks for shows to fill up its schedule, Showtime has two premieres this weekend. First, season 2 of The Tudors begins, and I don’t have much different to say about it than I did when it debuted. The tumult of Henry VIII’s reign, especially the schism between him and the …
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There are certain shows that, as a TV critic, you simply want to ignore out of gratitude for the work the principals have done in the past. This includes, for instance, the sitcoms Jeffrey Tambor has made since Arrested Development. Likewise, Amy Sherman-Palladino gave us the winsome and …
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As we prepare to send off TV’s greatest drama, a few moments to remember your other options this weekend:
* The finale-that’s-not-really-a-finale of Breaking Bad. The series, originally intended to have a ten-episode order, was unceremoniously cut to seven by the strike, which means that the final episode ends the season arbitrarily. …
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The biggest show of the 2007-08 TV season will be tomorrow night, and you will not be able to watch it. That’s when the WGA holds a massive hootenanny at the Shrine Auditorium in LA (and a somewhat smaller hootenanny in New York City) for members to talk (or yell) over the proposed deal the guild negotiating committee has been working …
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It’s become a cliche to say that people now watch the Super Bowl for the ads. In my case it’s literally true, because I have to. I’ll be reviewing the ads again this year for time.com, and in order to file in time, I end up watching the game inside out: I TiVo it, watch the commercials, review them while the game is on, then …
