What if Sawyer never got a pen? He would have become Starsky.
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Lost Wednesdays: Sawyer Becomes Starsky
WWE’s Blind Eye Principle and the Prospects for a Second Monday Night War
Throughout its history, WWE has consistently turned a blind eye to its competition, but can TNA force it to break this principle, and create a second Monday Night War?
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Retransmission Consent as Awards Show
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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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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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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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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A Tale of a Roux and a Rue
The CBS sports commentator who concluded, “Tonight the City of New Orleans embraced football,” doesn’t know the first thing about television reception. On Superbowl Sunday 2010, viewers saw how a football team has embraced a city and its culture for decades.
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Talk about a bait and switch. The Tebow Super Bowl ad left me hyped up for more hype.
After weeks of controversy and speculation, Focus on the Family's 30-second Super bowl spot featuring Heisman Trophy-winner Tim Tebow was as decidedly uncontroversial as CBS claimed it would be.
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