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question of the weekend: How much should we protect uncontacted tribes?

Sat, Feb 12, 2011
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It’s hard to imagine that there are some people living so remotely on planet Earth that they’ve still had no contact with the rest of the world. But the BBC recently released this clip from an episode of its series Human Planet featuring footage of what is supposedly the last uncontacted community of people, in the Amazon…

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‘Justified’ Season 2 debuts tonight on FX

Wed, Feb 09, 2011
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I’ve been meaning forever to watch FX’s series Justified because I love actor Timothy Olyphant and I despair that he never seems to get enough work, or the right kind…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Torchwood’ is ‘Doctor Who,’ and always will be

Wed, Feb 09, 2011
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Were you worried that a half-American Torchwood was going to mean severing the series from its British roots… and more importantly, from its Doctor Who roots? Russell T. Davies says we needn’t worry…

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war is good for business

Wed, Feb 09, 2011
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The revolution will, in fact, not only be televised, it’ll be packaged for advertisers and marketers. Try the new Baharat Flavored Doritos!

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question of the day: Why do Americans love the Super Bowl so much?

Wed, Feb 09, 2011
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The numbers are in: 111 million Americans watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. What was in it for all of them?

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Russell T. Davies might leave ‘Torchwood’

Mon, Feb 07, 2011
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Oh noes! Or maybe not oh-noes. Maybe giving the series over to another showrunner would be a good thing, would keep the show from getting stale.

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trailer break: ‘Outcasts’

Mon, Feb 07, 2011
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Ooo, I’m really looking forward to this one. The BBC does science fiction so well. Here’s the premise…

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question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?

Tue, Feb 01, 2011
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Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor saves the British National Television Awards

Mon, Jan 31, 2011
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Ever have those nightmares when you oversleep and miss an important test or an airplane or something? Well, the Doctor — in a new scene written by Steven Moffat — comes to the rescue of National Television Awards host Dermot O’Leary, when he actually does oversleep and miss his big job…

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watch Al Jazeera live online

Mon, Jan 31, 2011
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If you want to see what’s really going on in the Middle East, you want to watch Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, the vast majority of cable companies in the U.S. do not carry the channel…

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