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Boob Tube: Bunheads
I spend a lot of time (too much time?) pondering the great thinkers of the television world. The people who build a brilliant concept out of nothing and give us groundbreaking shows like Buffy the...
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Boob Tube: Katie Holmes, please be Joey Potter again
Even those who are generally out of touch with celebrity gossip have probably heard about Katie Holmes filing for divorce from Tom Cruise last week. If you have been paying attention to these things...
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Boob Tube: Web Television and Web Therapy
You guys should really be watching Web Therapy. Lisa Kudrow’s experimental pseudo-improvisational web series, which she debuted in 2008, is now beginning its second successful season on real live...
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Boob Tube: Media Coverage of Female Athletes
The 2012 London Olympics, hailed as the “Women’s Games,” have been praised as having achieved near gender equality in terms of participation of female athletes. This year for the first time, every...
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Boob Tube: Cottage Edition
I currently have no access to regular cable or to my usual menu of television streaming websites since I am at a cottage in nowhere (I know, poor me). My television watching has been limited to a few...
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Boob Tube: Kardashian Konversation
As the seventh season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians is starting to come to a close (only 3 episode left), I really think it is time for me to talk about the notorious E! family. I love the...
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Boob Tube: First Ladies of American Politics
I don’t usually use this column to talk about politics, but the cool thing about having a (semi) functional brain and a (fully) functional computer is that I can use those things to do almost anything...
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Boob Tube: The Emmys!
In a year when major award shows have mostly been a disappointing series of background noise for naps, the Emmys this past Sunday really entertained me. Sure, they got a bit slow after the comedy,...
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Boob Tube: Good Riddance Gossip Girl
I love television. All television. Sports coverage obviously doesn’t count. I love the critically acclaimed masterpieces (Downton Abbey, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights) right alongside the vapid reality...
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Boob Tube: Sophomore Season
A few years ago, some of the most important dates in my fall calendar were the season premiere nights of all of my favourite television shows. Not anymore. Thanks to DVR, Netflix, and the Internet,...
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Boob Tube: 1 Girl 5 Gays makes Canadian television proud
As both a Canadian and a television enthusiast, I am always trying to find Canadian television to watch and support. Degrassi has had its moments and I am of course down for the occasional Dragon’s...
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Boob Tube: Why I Never Get Anything Done or Netflix
I’ve been watching TV online for a long time. Even before that I was borrowing full seasons of shows on DVD from friends and also from that old cultural relic Blockbuster. I am no stranger to killing...
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Boob Tube: Don’t Judge Me (unless you are Judge Judy)
This year I was invited to an American Thanksgiving dinner at the house of a close family friend who also happens to be a woman and writer I greatly respect. At that dinner, the subject of the...
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Boob Tube: Downton Abbey
Please read the following in a posh English accent: The third season of Downton Abbey has yet to come across the pond, but those of us who have been savvy enough to watch it online (devilishly sneaky,...
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Boob Tube: Ringing in the New Year in Television
Happy New Year to all my loyal Boob Tube readers! (Happy New Year Uncle Larry and Aunt Theresa!) If you are anything like me, the main thing you are looking forward to in the new year is watching...
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Boob Tube: Dunhamania
Love her or hate her, you’ve had conversations about her. These days, everyone seems to be talking about Lena Dunham. I’d pay you to find a January 2013 issue of a magazine that has a significant...
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Boob Tube: The Lost Art of Channel-Surfing
As a newly minted 9-to-5er with a commute and all, I’ve rediscovered a long lost love: channel surfing. The last several years of my life, as a student and a waitress, I’ve enjoyed a fairly relaxed...
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Boob Tube: The Future is Here, brought to you by Netflix and Kevin Spacey
Forget everything you thought you knew about the television industry. This month when Netflix premiered its first original series, House of Cards, they changed the entire game, so you may as well...
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Boob Tube: Twittervision (sorry)
While Twittervision is admittedly a pretty terrible portmanteau, the integration of Twitter and TV has brought new life to an aging medium. The assumption has always been that the dominance of...
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Boob Tube: Television and the F-Word (Feminism, duh)
In a recent article on Jezebel (<3 <3 <3), the author referenced comments made by celebrated feminist Gloria Steinem (celebrated by all reasonable people, hated by misogynistic wackjobs –...
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