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New TV Program Cancellations Begin—”Dark” Dramas Among First to Go

CBS and NBC have begun chopping low-performing new programs, to go along with Fox's placin...

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Paul Hollander on the Persistence of Ideology

I've been out of town again for the past couple of days, this time unexpectedly without in...

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NBC’s “Friday Night Lights”—A Must-Watch

I'll be very interested in seeing how the new NBC show Friday Night Lights (Tuesdays, 8 p....

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New TV Series Having Rough Time, Old Standbys Strong

NBC's critically acclaimed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, helmed by superstar producer Aar...

commerce
“Bravo” for the Omniculture

One of the biggest trends of the past couple of decades has been the increasing commercial...

manners-and-morals
Liberty and Culture

I've just returned from a conference on great Americans' contributions to the nation's ong...

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The Wanderer. . . .

We're going to be out of the office for a few days, until Monday, and posting may be a bit...

commerce
TV Networks’ Ratings Up—Including Fox

The TV networks' ratings for "premiere week," when many returning shows have the...

commerce
Fox’s New Shows Struggling

The Fox TV network debuts its shows earlier than the others, in an evident effort to get t...

commerce
Magazines Instituting Hiring Freezes

In an effort to show better profitabilty to their corporate conglomerate owners, magazines...

manners-and-morals
“The Gridiron Gang,” the Philosophy of Determinism, and Freedom of the Will

The Gridiron Gang, mentioned immediately below, is a very good film, by the way, well wort...

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Jackass Number 2 Hits Big

Jackass Number 2 was the weekend movie box office champ with an impressive take of $29 mil...

commerce
Nielsen to Report Viewership of TV Commercials

I've written frequently about how technology is changing the media industry—both on ...

sports
ABC Rethinks Saturday Nights, Shuns Babysitters

Saturday night has long been a desert on television because the networks and cable channel...

commerce
Offending Christians OK at NBC, Bothering Atheists Not an Option

Yesterday we noted that NBC is leaning toward including Madonna's mock crucifixion scene w...

commerce
Tribune Co. Joins Reversal of Media Consolidation

The nascent but distinct and ongoing reversal of the corporate consolidation of the U.S. m...

music
NBC to Air Mock Rock Crucifixion?

NBC TV is pondering what to do about rock singer Madonna's upcoming TV special on the netw...

television
Fox’s Happy Hour: Capsule Review

Fox's new sitcom Happy Hour (Thursday nights at 8:30 EDT) is a real guilty pleasure—...

television
Men in Trees on ABC, Premiere: Capsule Review

In ABC's new comedy-drama program Men in Trees, kooky blonde actress Anne Heche plays a fa...

television
Studio City on the Sunset Strip, Premiere: Capsule Review

Produced by critical favorite Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset ...

television
Jericho Premiere on CBS: Capsule Review

The new CBS program Jericho (Monday nights at 10 p.m. EST is set in small Kansas town afte...

music
Sirius Grabs Met

I like opera but don't listen to it much or go to them very often. However, this sounds to...

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New York Times Redesign to Distinguish News, Opinion

The New York Times has implemented a fairly subtle redesign in its print editions today.He...

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Competition on the Web

As noted earlier on several occasions in this space, big media companies are doing their l...

books
“Transcending the Genre”

 The one thing most certain to destroy a work of genre fiction is for the author to t...

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Fox to Chase Christians

As I wrote in The Weekly Standard a few weeks ago, the best way for Christians to affect H...

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Microsoft to Compete with YouTube

Microsoft is developing an online video-sharing service modeled after YouTube. The Seattle...

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Football Rules the Box Office

For the second time in the last month, a football film is the weekend's top box-office att...

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Critics Go Political, Audiences Prefer Romance: Toronto Film Festival

The prizes have been awarded at the Toronto Film Festival, and as might have been expected...

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CBS Premieres New Show “Jericho” on Web Before Broadcast Debut

In another manifestation of the trend of major media outlets using the internet to promote...

art
Art That Bites

Artists in the twentieth-century increasingly operated on the insight that it is vain, stu...

manners-and-morals
Bush “Snuff” Film Premieres in Toronto

James Pinkerton of Tech Central Station went all the way up to Toronto for the city's annu...

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Get Your Red Meat Before the Store Closes. . . .

The rumors are flying, that the left-wing radio network Air America is about to shut down....