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V.22 No.20 | 5/16/2013

Idiot Box

Out With the Old

Networks sweep aside underperforming shows

By Devin D. O’Leary

The last of the 2012-13 season finales are wrapping up, and the networks are in severe “cut our losses” mode. Last weekend, the broadcast networks started announcing their new shows for fall 2013. That means programmers have to make room in their schedules for all the new content. That’s bad news for a lot of folks in Hollywood who got a mess of pink slips last week telling them that their prime time meal tickets had been canceled.

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Week in Sloth

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.19 | 5/9/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.18 | 5/2/2013

Idiot Box

Elegy for Network TV

Q1 ratings say cable crushes

By Devin D. O’Leary

It’s time to have an uncomfortable talk about mortality. Television as we know it is in the process of dying a slow, painful death. The “big” networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and The CW) are scrambling to fix their ratings downturn. But it ain’t gonna happen. Today’s viewers are watching sitcoms on their DVRs, their cell phones, their iPads—anything but a creaky old television set. And cable TV is flat-out kicking broadcast television’s ass in the ratings game.

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Week in Sloth

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.17 | 4/25/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.16 | 4/18/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.15 | 4/11/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.14 | 4/4/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.13 | 3/28/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.12 | 3/21/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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V.22 No.11 | 3/14/2013

The Week in Sloth

Highlights from around the dial. Except no one has dials anymore.

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Music

Girls, girls, girls ...

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Tue Mar 12 2013 2:08 PM ]

“I don’t care, I love it. ...”

Alibi Copy Editor and Staff Writer Mark Lopez shares a treatise on the soundtracking of Lena Dunham’s hit HBO comedy/drama in Girls’ Soundtrack Strikes a Chord. Stage an afternoon dance party with our “Girls”-centric playlist below.

Alibi "Girls" mix from Samantha Anne on 8tracks Radio.