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Art Smith may not have been the winning chef on Top Chef Masters, but he was the best at bringing the drama, associating food with his personal emotions and generally oversharing. (As befits a guy who used to be Oprah's chef.) Also, he specialized in the kind of down-home food that people like ...
Reality
Oprah Winfrey
Top Chef
TLC
Even if I covered music, I probably would have a hard time taking the American Music Awards very seriously as an awards show. That doesn't make the performers last night any less famous/spectacular/insane, though. And as a further TV angle the show included, among other things, the primetime-TV ...
Reality
American Idol
Adam Lambert
American Music Awards
Have you heard what one of Obama's czars is saying now? Apparently this guy is out there telling people that he's assembled a council of advisers to chart a new course for America. He wants to undo the last century of American history. And he—get this—says the U.S. needs "a hundred-year-plan" ...
Other
Glenn Beck
Barack Obama
Spoilers for last night's Curb Your Enthusiasm season finale coming up after the jump:
Hands down one of the strangest, most satisfying things on TV this season has been seeing Seinfeld re-created, set for set, on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm—not as some weird R-rated pay-cable updating ...
Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Larry David
Jason Alexander
Oprah Winfrey made it official on air today: on Sept. 9, 2011, she pulls the plug on the talk show that has dominated daytime TV for two decades. Says the Queen: "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit." Mo Ryan has the full statement. (In related news, Discovery ...
Drama
Oprah Winfrey
Syndication
Haven't yet watched last night's Project Runway finale, owing to other blogging priorities and longer-term deadlines. And, to be honest, also owing to the fact that I have not been able to work up much interest in this season of what used to be one of my favorite reality shows.
Was it the ...
Reality
Project Runway
Top Chef
Lifetime
Bravo
NBC's Thursday sitcoms observed Green Is Universal Week in ways larger (subplots in Community and 30 Rock) and smaller (Recyclops and a "carbon neutral" reference in The Office, um, shooting at nature in Parks and Recreation). Time to review, recap and recycle!
Comedy
Community
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock
The Office
Also out today, elsewhere at time.com, is TIME's entertainment holiday gift guide (you can scan the full list here), within which I have a few DVD-set suggestions, including collections of Rome, Futurama, thirtysomething, The Shield and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. That Very Sunny Christmas disc ...
Drama
Rome
Futurama
The Shield
My Tuned In column in this week's TIME looks at Sarah Palin's media blitz behind Going Rogue this week, and her similarity to another kind of 21st-century media personality:
Summing up her family's public experience for Barbara Walters, she said, "Our life has become kind of a ...
Other
Sarah Palin
Barbara Walters
According to several reports, Oprah Winfrey will announce tomorrow that she is ending her talk show in 2011. The show, reportedly, will bow out Sept. 9, 2011, the last day of Oprah's current contract. It bears mentioning that there have been announcements and reports that the Queen of Talk would ...
Other
Oprah Winfrey
Not to be outdone by ABC's announcement of the Lost premiere (oh, they're still outdone, but nonetheless), NBC announced that Chuck is returning to TV Sunday, Jan. 10, before moving to its regular Mondays at 8 p.m. E.T. timeslot the next day. Word is the show will produce 19 episodes, not the ...
Comedy
Chuck
NBC Universal
ABC
Mark it on your calendars: The final season of Lost officially returns Tuesday, Feb. 2 (appropriately, it has been noted, on Groundhog Day), at 9 p.m. E.T., which will be the show's regular time slot.
Pros: Tuesday is a relative dry patch on the TV schedule, whereas Wednesday and ...
Reality
ABC
American Idol
Oh, there was a new Top Chef last night. It's still on my TiVo. Discuss it happily in the comments, and I'll happily ignore you until I catch up.
In the meantime, do you love Top Chef but wish there was more of it? And that it had more of a focus on the competently crowd-pleasing [...]
Reality
Top Chef
NBC Universal
In these tough economic times, I'm not sure I can in good conscience tell anyone to spend $27 retail (currently $16 at Amazon) for what amounts to an double-length single episode of a current TV sitcom. On the other hand, hell, the economy needs stimulus, and if you're inclined to blow ...
Comedy
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Mrs. Tuned In, a graphic design connoisseur (or is that connoisseuse?), pointed me to this way-cool tumblr blog, which proposes pared-down title graphics for a series of modern and classic TV shows. Each poster, by designer Albert Exergian, boils down a show to a single essential image, as with ...
Drama
The Simpsons
Monk
Californication
Spoilers for last night's Glee coming up after the jump:
Last week I wrote that watching Glee was like watching a bungee jump, the way its episodes kept boinging up and down in quality. Allow me to amend that: it's amazing how Glee can career from excruciating to transcendent within a ...
Comedy
Glee
Spoilers for last night's Modern Family after the jump:
* Sssh! Wait—listen for a second. Did you hear that? That's right... nothing. This time out, an episode of Modern Family ended without a character delivering some funny-but-touching monologue about what we learned in the episode. And ...
Comedy
Modern Family
NBC has set the date for next year's Emmy Awards early, in more ways than one. Nine months in advance, it's announcing a date—of Sunday, August 29. NBC (which airs football on Sundays during the NFL season) notes, a bit defensively that when it aired the Emmys in August 2006, it "was the ...
Other
Emmy Awards
NBC Universal
The Nine
Spoilers for the finale of AMC's The Prisoner, which if you cared enough about you have already watched but remain spoilers nonetheless, after the jump:
Earlier this year when I reviewed the Battlestar Galactica finale, I wrote that sci-fi/fantasy series finales are different from ...
Other
The Prisoner
Watching the abbreviated launch of V is a strange experience: the show will air only four episodes (one more is left) before vanishing to reappear in midseason, and when it returns, it will have a new showrunner, so it's anyone's guess how the series will be retooled. It's less like a TV ...
