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question of the day: How could TV be more experimental?

Fri, Dec 07, 2012
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In what other ways, beyond breaking the fourth wall, could TV do something different? Or is stuff like this simply too arty for mainstream TV audiences? Why isn’t there room, on a hundred-plus channels, for something more arty?

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question of the day: Do you second-screen?

Thu, Dec 06, 2012
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Do you tweet or answer emails or surf the Web while watching TV? Has this changed in the past year?

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question of the day: Was Bob Costas wrong to deliver a pro-gun-control message during a halftime show?

Wed, Dec 05, 2012
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Perhaps this gets close to home for me because I am sometimes accused of inappropriately bringing politics or feminism or other topics that don’t “belong” in film criticism into my reviews…

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question of the day: How are you coping with Kate-is-pregnant-induced nausea?

Tue, Dec 04, 2012
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We’re in for 70 years of media frenzy about whoever this baby turns out to be, until he or she takes the throne in about 2082. You won’t be able to avoid it, unless you become a hermit (which I don’t recommend).

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question of the day: Why is Skyfall resonating so powerfully with British audiences?

Mon, Dec 03, 2012
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Skyfall has passed Titanic to become the No. 2 all-time box office champ in the U.K., and it’s within spitting distance of surpassing the No. 1 film, Avatar. What the heck is going on?

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question of the weekend: What is the ideal date to put up your Christmas tree?

Sat, Dec 01, 2012
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If you don’t celebrate Christmas, do you mark some other solstice-type observance, and how?

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question of the day: What fictional characters need their own Christmas album?

Fri, Nov 30, 2012
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And what songs would they sing? Traditional tunes? Or their own new (or merely previously unheard) songs?

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question of the day: What’s the first quintessentially 21st-century TV show?

Thu, Nov 29, 2012
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I might go with Mad Men, which represents a reexamination of the past in a way that no other series set in the past has done.

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question of the day: If your life were a TV show, what kind of show would it be?

Wed, Nov 28, 2012
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Inspired by Lindsay Lohan’s new dream of starring in a sitcom based on her own wacky life…

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question of the day: What’s your favorite pop-culture weapon?

Tue, Nov 27, 2012
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Lightsaber? Phaser? Or maybe you prefer something that also exists in the real world, such as Harry Callahan’s Magnum or SG1’s P90? Or Shaun’s anti-zombie cricket bat?

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