Beyond the awards meted out at the Oscars last week, what happened between Cablevision and WABC, and what does it tell us about retransmission consent?
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Current Events
Retransmission Consent as Awards Show
The Warner Archive Program and Hollywood History
The studio vaults have opened -- but is that a good thing?
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Why Corey Haim Was Not a Good Trainwreck
If you’d encountered Corey Haim on TV in the past decade, his death of a (presumed) overdose could not have been a total surprise. That didn’t mean it wasn’t surprising or heartbreaking, but if there was ever an instance where we probably should have seen it coming, this was it.
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Lost Wednesdays: Ben the Follower
Michael Emerson struts out his A-game in what might be the most pleasurable Lost season six episode yet
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Hit Girl Could Be Your New Favorite Tween
She's Hit Girl, a foul-mouthed tween assassin in Kick-Ass, a comic book adaptation hitting theaters April 15. But after watching the trailer, I'm conflicted about her character.
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The Oscars, Star-Studies Style
The Oscars are a star scholar's Super Bowl: as much as we like to disdain them as artistically misguided, bloated, or pure distracting fluff, they're a fascinating text to behold.
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The Oscars: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Mystify Film Culture
It’s that time again: the time where Hollywood stands up and delivers its official pronouncement of what constitutes the finest in cinematic achievement for the calendar year
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Lost Wednesdays: Smokey and the Torturer
No lists, no cryptic new locations, but Smokey & Sayid opening a can of whup-ass on the temple means a fun time is in store.
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Watching Twitter on TV
The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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Lost Wednesdays: Good Times at the Caves
Another week brings revelations that don't feel like revelations - when will we know what we know?
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Lost Wednesday: Substitute Fanboy
Is Jacob the mystical SysOp of Lostpedia? Or is he just a teacher looking for a substitute?
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel
What's in a name? Hasbro and Discovery begin branding efforts for their new joint venture cable network debuting later this year.
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Is it all Downhill from here for Winter Olympics?
Olympic winter games are a rudiment of a bygone modern era of (television) culture. Whereas summer games have adopted to changing viewing habits, Winter Olympics have essentially remained fifteen ways of sliding.
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Lost Wednesday: Table Setting
One of my favorite television critics, Alan Sepinwall, ended his review of this week’s Lost with this spot-on reflection: Mainly, though, “What Kate Does” was a table-setting episode. I can see lots of things introduced here paying off interestingly down the road, maybe even as soon as next week, but there wasn’t enough meat...
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About the (w)hoopla: A few pedagogical thoughts about the Super Bowl ritual.
In an era of fragmentation it's the only media program left that has any kind of mass ritual component. Which, of course, is not only why so many debate its contents but why and how we , as scholars, should approach the program.
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