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5 Best TV Pilots

Last week, TV Guide came up with its list of the ten best pilots ever, a list that was clearly written by insane people. While it’s hard to argue with the inclusion of Lost (which is, in fact, on this list as well), the presence of Football Wives and Desperate Housewives is a bit harder [...]

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Friday Tidbits

NBC has such faith in Chuck that it’s ordered a full season pickup a month before the show’s second season premiere. I know Chuck is a good show, but I rather think this decision says as much about the weakness of NBC’s fall lineup as it does about the longevity of the humorous spy drama. If [...]

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Tuesday Tidbits

Are you feeling the Battlestar Galactica love the way I am? Does Friday seem really far away? To tide you over, here are two crazy theories on who might be the final Cylon. Since I think every possible character has been repeatedly guessed by now, I’m going out on a limb and saying that it’s [...]

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5 Best TV Finales

It’s been five days, but I’m still thinking about the finale of The Wire. It was such a relief to actually have the show end exactly as it ought to. Although I was fairly certain that David Simon would not have McNulty wake up next to his ex-wife, wondering about the strange dream he had, [...]

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Tipple Tuesday: Drunk on The Wire

I’m still reeling from the penultimate episode of The Wire and torn between excitement and dread for Sunday’s final installment. Excitement because, of course, it’s the final hour of one of the best goddamn TV shows ever, and dread for pretty much the same reason. The final hour. This is it. No more. It’s all [...]

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Son of TV Haiku

Project Runway took the week off, but there was a surprising amount of new programming this last week. Enough, in fact, that there’s only one way to cover it all: more TV haiku! American Idol Yes, I’m still watching Though I feel unclean and Would like Paula’s drugs. Eli Stone Maybe it’s just me But based on the latest shows Quirky’s the new [...]

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“Way Down in the Hole” With The Wire

The fifth season of The Wire has received a tremendous amount of press, most of it slavering over the pure genius of the show (I include myself in that). There has also been a fair amount of debate regarding the direction of this season. Is David Simon giving too much airtime to the newsroom at [...]

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5 Worst TV Workplaces

Has this first full week back at work after the holidays felt like a long slog through thick mud on a molasses freeway? Trying to figure out how you’re going to make it to your next set of holidays, sometime in the distant, glorious days of May? Well, in the spirit of “it could always [...]

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Up on The Wire

I almost didn’t watch The Wire. I don’t mean this week’s episode; there was no way I’d miss that. Just in general. Five years ago, I sat through the first five minutes of the very first episode and decided it was a Homicide ripoff by someone who was really pleased with their ability to use [...]

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Tidbits for November 29

The Wire, one of the few shows completely unaffected by the writers’ strike, has a confirmed air date at last. It’s returning to HBO on January 6, though those that have On Demand can skip that whole “get drunk and desperately find someone to kiss at midnight” ritual and start watching it on New [...]

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