Monthly Archives: September 2010

Playlist 9-17-10

In a show that spans Lonnie Mack’s “Wham!” to LCD Soundsystem’s “Pow Pow,” sampled quite a bit from new releases by Eli “Paperboy” Reid, Antony and the Johnsons, Superchunk and Of Montreal. Highlighted upcoming appearances by Broken Social Scene and Loretta Lynn (not together). Blasted my mono “Beatles for Sale” waiting for the reggae show [...]

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Fall TV Preview: Thursdays

  We’re previewing the new fall TV season each day in this space. It doesn’t look much better on Thursdays. NEW SHOWS “My Generation” (ABC, 8 p.m., starts Sept. 23). It’s been the subject of more than a couple TV movies or short lived series – a 10 year reunion recounting what’s happened to them [...]

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Tim and Eric Coming to Hartford

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of the “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” make their Hartford debut in a show at the Webster Theatre Nov. 29. Tickets go on sale today for the big event from the duo, who are also announcing a Nov. 5 “Crimbus Special” on Adult Swim. The two explain it [...]

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Fall TV Preview: Wednesdays

  The Fall TV Season of Our Discontent continues on hump night, with none of the new shows especially standing out. It’s a night mostly for the returning “Survivor” or “Modern Famiy.” NEW SHOWS “Undercovers”  (NBC, 8 p.m., starts Sept. 22). The brand of J.J. Abrams used to mean something. But its brand will be [...]

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Smits Returns for ‘Outlaw’

Jimmy Smits returns to network TV not as President, as he did at the end of “The West Wing,” but as a Supreme Court justice who up and quits. The new “Outlaw,” he told reporters at the TV Critics Press Tour this summer, “was an opportunity to 
deal with legal matters and hot-button issues that are
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Fall TV Preview: Tuesdays

We’re covering the new fall TV season day by day all week. Here’s what’s on tap Tuesdays this fall. NEW SHOWS   “No Ordinary Family”(ABC, 8 p.m., starts Sept. 21) is poised as one of the more unusual shows of the season: an ordinary family that finds itself with superpowers following a family trip abroad. [...]

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‘Parenthood’ Finds a Pace

“Parenthood” returned for its second season Tuesday and since its rocky start last spring, when just 13 episodes aired after a production delay and executive producer Jason Katims says he thinks its found its groove. A constantly-talking overlapping-voices kind of groove, but a groove nonetheless. “The first season of any show is discovering what the [...]

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Behind Dax Shepard’s ‘Parenthood’ Tattoo

For “Parenthood” costar Dax Shepard, who came to show business through hosting “Punked,” he’s been able to flex a big tree-like tattoo that seems to fit in with the show’s family theme. At the TV Critics Press Tour this summer, he told me the ink is his own, though he jokes, “We’re renting it. We [...]

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Fall TV Preview: Mondays

  By and large, it won’t get started for another week, but we’d thought we’d begin the process in surveying the new fall TV season, night by night this week. NEW SHOWS “Lone Star” (Fox, 9 p.m., starts Sept. 20) – Broadcast TV takes a conceit from cable in presenting the antihero as hero. Dashing [...]

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Taylor vs. Kanye at the VMAs: In Song

You know this isn’t anywhere near the best MTV Video Music Awards, as some backstage twerp was insisting, if the biggest part of the show Sunday came in responding to what happened last year: Kanye West swiping the microphone from winner Taylor Swift and interrupting her victory speech with his opinion that Beyonce should have [...]

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