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Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway’s West Wing, or Its Studio 60?
NBC’s musical-about-a-musical, Smash, debuts next Monday, but after the massive promotional blitz, you’d be excused for feeling like you’ve already seen the entire 15-episode season. (The pilot has been available for streaming and download for a few weeks now.) NBC has high hopes for the show–I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t do huge …
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Love, Peace and Soul: RIP Don Cornelius
Soul Train host and TV-music pioneer Don Cornelius has been found dead in his Encino, Calif., home of a suicide, according to police. My colleague Madison Gray has more of the details, and it’s a sad ending to the life of someone who brought us one of the purest expressions of joy ever to take the form of a TV show. But Soul Train wasn’t …
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TV Tonight: Key and Peele
The very first , pre-credits sketch (video above) in tonight’s premiere of Key & Peele on Comedy Central may have been chosen because it’s short and very funny, but it’s also a kind of theme and mission statement. A man is talking on his cell phone to his wife about some theater tickets, when he sees another man—another African …
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X’ed Out! Can Simon Cowell’s House Cleaning Save The X Factor?
Call it Rachel Crow’s revenge. (Or, if you prefer, Drew Ryniewicz’s.) After a first season of decent but not blockbuster-sized ratings, reports came out Monday that Simon Cowell had pulled a triple elimination on The X Factor, firing judges Paula Abdul (again!) and Nicole Scherzinger as well as host Steve Jones. (Fox has officially …
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Video: Game of Thrones Reloads for Season 2
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Before last night’s debut (or …
Watch The Walking Dead‘s Midseason Premiere Trailer
The first half of season two was very, very, very…slow. We’re hoping the second half finds more zombies and shooting. Who’s with us?
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The Morning After: To the Moon!
I’m closing a piece for the print TIME today, so I didn’t have time for a writeup of last night’s 19th GOP Presidential debate. (See my colleagues at Swampland for their political take.) I simply want to give you a chance to discuss it, and to note this: we are in a country recovering from a massive recession/near-depression, coming off …
Wilco’s New Video is Also a Popeye Cartoon
Wilco released a music video for “Dawned on Me,” a song off the band’s latest album, The Whole Love. And get this, it’s also the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years. The video is a partnership between the Chicago …
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There Is a Rap Song About Ron Swanson
There is a rap song about Ron Swanson. Why are you even reading the rest of this post? Why haven’t you just clicked “Play”? What more could you possibly need to hear?
Well, all right: the track comes from Adam WarRock, whose past work includes a full album about Firefly (“M to the A to the L!”) and whose Parks & Rec EP also includes a …
Fans Remake Star Wars, 15 Seconds at a Time
Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut is a crowdsourced work of wonder.
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State of the Union: A Call for Unity, in a Political Package
One of the running narratives of Barack Obama’s administration has been how much it should mirror, or avoid, the acts of the last Democratic administration, Bill Clinton’s. In his State of the Union address last night, at least, Barack Obama became a Clintonian, at least in style. Like Clinton’s SOTU speeches, Obama’s was long (just over …
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Game of Thrones Season 2 Tidbits: Building Up Qarth, and Fleshing It Out
One of the many HBO programming announcements out of the winter TCA tour that I didn’t get around to commenting on was a return date for Game of Thrones‘ season 2: April 1. Information about the second series—and judging only by the source book, A Clash of Kings, it could be a doozy—has been coming out in bits and pieces. And here ( …