The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
September 17, 2014
Good for Business: Five Years in, What Does ‘Shark Tank’ Mean for America?
If you want to appear on Shark Tank, you have to email a Yahoo address. Now approaching its sixth season, ABC’s live-hot-pitches business incubator is wildly, strangely, consistently popular — it’s the most-watched show on Friday nights for viewers ages 18–49, as well as arguably the best and certainly most American reality show on TV — […]
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Fall TV Preview, Part 2: All the New Dramas
It’s increasingly clear that only the very good, the very noisy or the very procedural have any hope of surviving. So is it any wonder that the Big Four are playing it so safe?
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: With Guest Chuck Klosterman
Prince Movies with special guest Chuck Klosterman! Idris Elba is inside Taraji P. Henson’s house! The new U2 album is inside your iTunes! And Robin Thicke just hurts inside.
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Rihanna Just Took on CBS and the NFL … and Won
CBS’s decision to pull a Rihanna song from ‘Thursday Night Football’ smacked of a fantastical desire to make domestic abuse go away by not discussing it.
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Stranger in My House: Idris Elba Is a Malignant Narcissist in ‘No Good Deed’
Idris Elba stars in Sam Miller’s thriller about a former prosecutor of domestic abusers and the strange man who comes to her door.
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Bryan Cranston Is: Baseball — The One-Man Show
Also in Afternoon Links: The ‘Vacation’ sequel adds another cast member, and a new batch of rumored ‘True Detective’ stars.
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The Andy Greenwald Podcast: Max Greenfield
On the eve of the fourth season of ‘New Girl,’ costar Max Greenfield joins Andy Greenwald to discuss his life, career, and all things Schmidt.
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The Moment Podcast: Brian Koppelman and Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried, the Miles Davis of comedy, on what’s funny and what’s not. Plus an update from Gary Gulman.
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The Movies of 1994: Pondering the Time-Travel Insanity of JCVD’s ‘Timecop’
‘Timecop’ is not the best movie of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career. It’s not a lot of things, really. But it’s full of crazy time-hopping.
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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: The Pseudo-Endlessness of ‘Destiny’
Online games are always evolving, so early impressions are only a snapshot. For now, a snapshot of ‘Destiny’ reveals a good-looking game that’s part shooter with derivative level design, part RPG with a paper-thin plot and a missing instruction manual, and part MMO that doesn’t play particularly well with others.
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Matt Damon Is Going to Play Jason Bourne Again
Big, big news from the world of amnesiac super-spies: Matt Damon, apparently forgetting he’d turned over the franchise to Jeremy Renner a mere two years ago, is reportedly returning to do another Jason Bourne movie. And he’s bringing his pal Paul Greengrass, who directed the second two films in the original trilogy, along for the ride.
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America’s Guy: Can Garth Brooks Really Make a Comeback?
Until this month, Garth Brooks hadn’t toured Middle America in 13 years. But he’s still attuned to Middle American sensibilities.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: U2 and Fall Network Dramas
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk U2 and fall network dramas.
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