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'Cougar Town' producers promise no changes as show moves from ABC to TBS — except, more nudity Jan 4th 2013, 23:46 Same show, more nudity. One year after ABC's programming chief told TV critics that he'd slashed "Cougar Town's" episode order — and that he'd delayed its third-season debut because the network loved the show — TBS opened this TV Press Tour with a Q&A session for its new comedy series: "Cougar Town"! Read full article >> NatGeo's 'Killing Lincoln' producer says John Wilkes Booth 'could be the poster child for the Tea Party' Jan 4th 2013, 23:37 John Wilkes Booth "could be the poster child for the Tea Party," NatGeo's "Killing Lincoln" exec producer Erik Jendresen told shocked TV critics attending Winter TV Press Tour 2013. Booth was not mad and his views were, in fact, pretty common when he assassinated Lincoln, Jendresen said Friday. Read full article >> 'American Idol' showing early preview of first episode across the country, including Washington Jan 4th 2013, 23:27 "American Idol: The Season of Nicki Minaj" debuts on Wednesday, Jan. 16, but Fox has decided to let viewers see the first episode a week earlier — as long as they can get to a movie theater. The network is offering screenings around the country of the show's first episode of Season 12, which features new judges Minaj, Keith Urban and Mariah Carey, along with sole "Idol" survivor Randy Jackson. Afterwards, the judges — and host Ryan Seacrest — will participate in a Q&A, giving us the delightful first chance to see how Minaj and Carey can handle being in the same room on live TV (essentially). Read full article >> 'The Other Side of the World,' by Jay Neugeboren Jan 4th 2013, 22:56 This fall when Philip Rothtold an interviewerthat he'd stopped writing novels, the commentaries that surged forth might as well have been obituaries. Which writer would continue to honor well-made sentences? Who would capture America's roiling moral anxiety? And was there anybody left who could do it through tormented, sex-obsessed Jewish men? Read full article >> Kimmel making move to 11:35: At last, it's Jimmy vs. Jay vs. Dave Jan 4th 2013, 18:17 Ten years after ABC began making trouble when it tried to pinch late-night stars from CBS and NBC to replace "Nightline," the network will finally move homegrown talent Jimmy Kimmel into the time slot Tuesday. Read full article >> TV review: 'Deception' asks lots of questions — will it answer them? Jan 4th 2013, 17:56 At this point in the TV season, deciding which shows to watch is all about logistics. The DVR may be empty now, but with a slew of January and February premieres, that space will soon be at a premium. Read full article >> At 'Downton Abbey,' braving the fiscal cliff Jan 4th 2013, 17:42 "Downton Abbey," that phenomenally successful British drama series about a very specific sort of people enduring what amounts to the modern era's original first-world problems, is back on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" Sunday night for a third season. It is greeted with huzzahs, which are deserved, but it is also met with the law of diminishing returns. Read full article >> Nielsen to measure TV talk on Twitter Jan 4th 2013, 17:29 The Twitter haters are losing the war. You know who they are, or, perhaps, who you are. Those who dismiss the snappy social network as the Platonic Non-Ideal of oversharing undercooked ideas, of blurting out what's better left unsaid. Read full article >> Arena Stage's and WSC Avant Bard's troubles Jan 4th 2013, 16:31 In an art form powered by illusion, dreaming turns out to be the easy part. Marvelous designs are laid out; visionary projects are greenlighted; exciting partnerships announced, to fanfare and applause. Read full article >> Inaugural music: It's nice, but it's not a concert Jan 4th 2013, 16:07 In 2009, Barack Obama wanted to include a moment of uplifting music in his inauguration. So he called Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, two of the most beloved figures in classical music. He said he wanted them to play in the ceremony. He said he liked Copland. And he left it at that. Read full article >> Pregnant artists continue to perform with precision Jan 4th 2013, 15:30 The concert didn't sound unusual. The Choral Arts Society sang with its typical verve. The parade of soloists basked in the customary applause, and the orchestra played Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" with the radiance and rigor it requires. Read full article >> 'The Start of Everything,' by Emily Winslow Jan 4th 2013, 14:57 Fr. Ronald Knox, a founding member of Britain's famed Detection Club, concluded his 1929 "Decalogue" for detective fiction with this rule: "Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them." Read full article >>

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