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What to Read to Fill the Void Left by Your Favorite TV Shows This Summer

By Chloe Pantazi on

As one television season comes to its inevitable end, and a number of our favorite shows have either finished for the summer (or for good) we’ve compiled a suggested reading list of books to binge on and fill the void of your favorite shows while we wait impatiently for them to return next season. Readers and television bingers alike, don’t forget to leave your suggestions in the comments. … Read More

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What’s On at Flavorwire: Links You Need to See

By Lillian Ruiz on

Some things, like this Great Gatsby/Mean Girls meme mash-up, are just perfect. There’s a Robocop statue going up in Detroit, because that’s just what the city of Detroit has been clamoring for. Astronaut Chris Hadfield is the best thing to happen to space travel in a long time; we celebrated his… Read More

Television

This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments

By Alison Herman on

There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you sort through all that television has to offer, we’re compiling the five best moments on TV each week. This time, lots of couples get together, and one couple finds out they’re expecting. … Read More

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This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments

By Alison Herman on

There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you sort through all that television has to offer, we’re compiling the five best moments on TV… Read More

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TV Critics Explain What Nielsen’s New Streaming Ratings Mean for Our Favorite Shows

By Chloe Pantazi on

Nielsen, the company that monitors TV ratings, has announced that it will alter its rating system to factor in the many viewers that are watching TV shows away from the TV set. By changing the way it will collect ratings, Nielsen finally seems to be acknowledging the increasing significance of streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon – as well as gaming devices that support television like the X-Box and Playstation, also to be counted. The development is expected to come into effect later this year in September. … Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Presented without comment: “The British hospital treating the former Kate Middleton admitted Wednesday it was victimized by a crank call in which information on her condition was given out to a woman impersonating Queen Elizabeth II.” [via

Television

The 15 Funniest TV Characters Right Now

By Judy Berman on

Is Andy Dwyer the funniest character on TV? We know we struggle to keep a straight face every time Chris Pratt is on the screen in Parks and Recreation, between his sweetly doofy lines and his perfectly timed pratfalls. (As our colleague Kim Gardner reminds us, he makes an excellent FBI agent, too.) Our love of Andy got us thinking about who else might qualify as television’s most hilarious character right now, so we surveyed the Flavorpill staff to get their picks. See the 15 they shouted out — including now fewer than three more Parks and Rec characters — after the jump. … Read More

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‘The Mindy Project’ Gets Full-Season Pickup

By Judy Berman on

Good news for “The Cult of Mindy Kaling”: Fox has committed to a full, 22-episode season of The Mindy Project. Fans of the network’s perfectly solid Ben and Kate also have reason to celebrate, as the suits have ordered another six episodes of that sitcom, for a nearly full season of 19 episodes.… Read More

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10 Archetypes TV Needs to Get Over

By Judy Berman on

TV audiences apparently can’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes. With tonight’s premiere of Elementary, fans now have two shows starring the legendary fictional detective to choose from: the BBC’s acclaimed Sherlock, which produces just three episodes per season and airs in the US on PBS, and the new American version. The CBS series finds Jonny Lee Miller’s Holmes detoxing in New York, in the care of Lucy Liu’s Watson. Although we find the chemistry between those two promising, we’re not sure primetime needs another Sherlock Holmes.

Of course, both Sherlock Holmeses are just incarnations of an archetype TV dramas love: the rogue good guy. That realization got us thinking about characters we see far too often. So we’ve created a list of tired types we wish TV writers would lay off, at least for a while. Leave your additions in the comments. … Read More

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TV Reporters Can’t Agree on Whether ‘The Mindy Project’ Is a Success

By Judy Berman on

The most buzzed-about new sitcom of the 2012-13 season premiered last night, and the media can’t figure out whether or not it was a success. While an early headline from Vulture proclaimed, “Viewers Like Mindy Project Debut Just Fine,” pointing out that it won its time slot among viewers under 35, the raw… Read More