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Television
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The Saturday Night Live Sketch Predictor
What will happen when Ben Affleck hosts tomorrow night? Argo see for yourself!
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(The Office Had) The Time of Its Life
Which outdated hits will make it into the series finale?
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Ashen-Faced Don Draper, and Other Mad Men Promo Predictions
Reading the tea leaves of AMC’s maddening “On the next Mad Men …” promos.
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Can Amazon Transform TV?
With eight new sitcom pilots and stars like John Goodman and Bebe Neuwirth, the bookselling giant is willing to try.
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The Mad Men Scorecard
Who scores the most? Whose bedpost needs more notches? Tally the conquests of Don, Peggy, Roger, and more on Slate’s interactive guide to Mad Men romance.
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With Great Power Comes Great Hilarity
Selina Meyer’s a player in the second season of Veep, and the show is much better as a result.
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Tee to Green
Morning shows about golf. Talk shows about golf. Reality shows about golf. The Golf Channel has it figured out.
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Zuckerman Unfound
PBS’s Philip Roth documentary is more respectful to its subject than its subject is to himself.
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Phil Spector
Al Pacino’s nonperformance in the HBO biopic crashes into the wall of David Mamet’s script and direction.
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Good as Gold
How does a rookie detective become the police commissioner in seven short years? Golden Boy means to show us.
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House of Cards
All 13 episodes of this Kevin Spacey-starring Netflix series premiere on Friday. Bet you can’t watch just one.
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2012: The Year in TV Moments
The Real Housewives of Atlanta: NeNe Leakes and Ryan Murphy call Tyler Perry.
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2012: The Year in TV Moments
The second presidential debate: Candy Crowley bails out Obama.
