Archive | Television
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SNL star delivers weeknight update
Seth Meyers, the head writer for Saturday Night Live, entertained a packed crowd at Brown U. last night, performing stand-up, answering questions and even sharing some “Weekend Update” jokes that were censored from SNL — all while talking a mile a minute.
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TV review: Lindsay Lohan falls flat on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Lindsay Lohan hosted a much-ballyhooed episode of "Saturday Night Live" last week — an episode that, for all intents and purposes, was just as putrid as every other "SNL" episode for the better part of a decade.
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Stephen Colbert mocks male birth control
Late night conservative satirist Stephen Colbert gave U. Kansas the finger last Wednesday evening, the wag of the finger that is.
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Television: Going ‘Mad’
After almost a year and a half of waiting, Don Draper fans across the country finally get a fix of television’s favorite corporate mogul.
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TV review: ‘Portlandia’ teaches us to embrace hipster-dom
“Portlandia” is a show currently airing on the International Film Channel, created by and starring Saturday Night Live veteran Fred Armisen and ‘90s alternative rocker Carrie Brownstein. The show uses the same sketch-comedy format as SNL, and has recurring without an overarching plot.
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TV Review: ‘Alcatraz’ tempers ambitious plot with genre cliches
"On March 21st, 1963, Alcatraz officially closed. All the prisoners were transferred off the island. Only that's not what happened. Not at all." Bolstered by orchestral background music, these lines serve as the introduction to Fox's new midseason show, "Alcatraz.
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TV interview: Napoleon returns
Show: “Napoleon Dynamite” Time: 7:30 p.m. Sundays Network: Fox Jon Heder is now eight years removed from the debut of his most popular role as the courageous, moonboot-wearing Napoleon Dynamite.
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TV review: ‘Walking Dead’ midseason premiere a vast improvement over recent talky excesses
After the ill-advised seven episode arc of losing, searching, searching and more searching for the missing Sophia was resolved, the action picked up in the best/worst possible way for the show and the characters in AMC’s “The Walking Dead.
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TV review: Lukewarm waters in ABC’s ‘The River’
Is it “Paranormal Activity” combined with “Lost?” Or is it a hybrid of “The X-Files” and “The Blair Witch Project” set in the Amazon? Maybe it’s all of those recognizable names combined into an adventure-horror series made for television.