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Monthly archives for 2007: June, July, September, October, November

  1. What to watch during the writers' strike? Californication.

    Nov 21, 2007

    Dear Hank Moody—or is it David Duchovny—where have you been all my life? Why didn't I get to meet you and your half-amused, half-sorrowful mug (not to mention the sexual appeal you carry before you like the nicest kind

    Tagged: television

  2. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, reviewed.

    Nov 21, 2007

    Last month, 11 million people tuned into It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, the Halloween perennial in which Linus stages an all-night vigil while Charlie's out getting rocks in his trick or treat bag. Next

    Tagged: television

  3. What the heck is Boing Boing TV?

    Nov 20, 2007

    Boing Boing, the world's "most favorited" blog, according to Technorati's vastly hideous phrase, is a hybrid of tech-culture newsletter and DIY lifestyle magazine. Its posts speak of copyright skirmishes and

    Tagged: television

  4. Why it's pointless to watch The Daily Show live.

    Nov 15, 2007

    As the Hollywood writers' strike enters its second week, the cold facts are starting to sink in. Such as: no more new Daily Shows for God knows how long (after talks broke down last Sunday, a negotiator for the studios

    Tagged: television

  5. A must-see documentary about live-action role playing games.

    Nov 12, 2007

    Darkon is a LARP (live-action role-playing game) where normal people dress up in homemade armor and pretend to be inhabitants of a fantasy realm. They fight battles in parks and on soccer fields over pretend land in a

    Tagged: television

  6. Project Runway live!

    Nov 6, 2007

    This afternoon, Bravo threw a publicity stunt in support of its lively sewing competition Project Runway, which begins its fourth season next week. It didn't seem like a dumb idea to go. The big piece about the

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  7. Parsing the weirdness of the Owen Wilson-Wes Anderson MySpace interview.

    Oct 30, 2007

    MySpaceTV, the four-month-old video-sharing wing of the networking site, is developing a specialty in pseudo-vérité and quasi-nonfiction. Last Monday saw the debut of Roommates, a slumber party of a serial wherein four

    Tagged: television

  8. Dirty Sexy Money reviewed.

    Oct 24, 2007

    As Tripp Darling—the plutocratic patriarch on the respectably sordid new soap Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET)—Donald Sutherland wears a flowing leonine mane, robber-baron sideburns, and a moustache

    Tagged: television

  9. Cavemen reviewed.

    Oct 3, 2007

    By the time Cavemen (ABC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET) finally materialized, it felt as if it had been with us since the Pliocene epoch. In March, ABC confirmed that it had ordered a pilot for a sitcom derived from a series

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  10. Aliens in America and Little Mosque on the Prairie reviewed.

    Oct 1, 2007

    Franny Tolchuck, the mother on the new sitcom Aliens in America (The CW, Mondays at 8:30 p.m. ET), wears a hairstyle persnickety enough to invite comparison with the lacquered 'do of Desperate Housewives' Bree Van De

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