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In today's column, I preview the new season of "Lost," which premieres tomorrow night: "Lost" Sure, the dazzling island adventure has dabbled in four dimensions in the past, with the flashes and journeys of consciousness of Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick). But as the series&
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In the first of today's columns (which actually won't be in the paper until Sunday), I talk with "United States of Tara" creator Diablo Cody about the show, her quick rise to fame and Academy Award approval, and the backlash that resulted from it.
In Treatment
I'll try to do a roundup of notable stuff from yesterday's 9 a.m.-9 p.m. marathon later today, but the session I was most excited about -- which should come as no surprise to anyone reading this blog during the strike -- was the
Battlestar Galactica
Yesterday's "Battlestar Galactica" discussion made me realize that I never found the right opportunity to transcribe and post an interview I did with the show's developer, Ronald D. Moore, back at the last press tour in July. With the final batch of episodes debuting
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The following transcript comes from two different conversations with "The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan: a two-hour-plus chat he had with FX president John Landgraf and a half-dozen TV critics immediately after we watched the series finale (click here for the finale review), and then a solo phone interview
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In today's column, I interview "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter about the arc of the season. I'll post a more detailed transcript tomorrow night after the finale airs (along with, of course, a finale review).
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On Tuesday, shortly after watching the "Mad Men" season two finale, I spoke with the show's creator Matthew Weiner about the episode, the season, the show's future, the 1960s, "The Sopranos," his mother... well, we talked about a lot of things. Really,
Chuck
In an unexpected but very cool move, NBC has given "Chuck" a full season order for season two based on their opinion of the first six episodes. (Initially, it only got a 13-episode order based on the weird strike-related nature of season one.) So even though the show&
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If you've been reading the blog this summer, you know how much I've grown to love "The Middleman." With four episodes left in the season, I decided it was time once again to express that love in newspaper form, and so today's
House
Today's column has "House" creator David Shore looking ahead to next season at the same time he talks about some of the missteps (notably the use of Cameron and Chase) of last season. If you have the time, you can also read a full transcript of
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This interview with “The Wire” creator David Simon was conducted over two different days shortly before the 9th episode of the final season aired. (But after I had already seen the series finale.) We discuss several characters’ final fates in detail, so if you haven’t already seen “-30-,” what
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Today's column is an interview with Josh Schwartz about the end of "The O.C.," the beginning, and lots of things in between: "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz was in the middle of a storyline last season involving Johnny, an angst-ridden new character,