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Power Rankings! Week 9: All hail the new king. And welcome, "Venture Bros."
Welcome to the weekly "Power Rankings!" feature. For the back-story on how it started and how it's compiled, click here. And we're off:   RANK SHOW PREVIOUS TREND COMMENT 1 Sons of Anarchy 2 ↑ It's impossible to...  ...
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Kurt Sutter: Celebrity Podcast Interview with the "Sons of Anarchy" creator.
Kurt Sutter , the creator and writer of FX's acclaimed "Sons of Anarchy" series took some time out to talk the other day before the pivotal final episodes of the high-octane drama. Sutter, formerly a writer and producer of "The Shield," is on quite a roll with "Sons of Anarchy" right now....  ...
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Celebrity Podcast Interviews, "Mad Men" withdrawal, the Power Rankings!, pimping and more.
Yes, I'm having "Mad Men" withdrawals as well. More on that in a moment. If you'll look to the right of this blog you'll see a section called Celebrity Podcast Interviews . With the help of the fine SFGate folks, we've got a bunch of my archived interviews hard-wired into the blog now for... ...
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Power Rankings! Week 8: Victory lap for "Mad Men." Strange week of static; no Visitors.
Welcome to the weekly "Power Rankings!" feature. For the back-story on how it started and how it's compiled, click here. And we're off:   RANK SHOW PREVIOUS TREND COMMENT 1 Mad Men 1 ↔ The undisputed champ goes out...  ...
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"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard, Ep. 13: "Shut the door. Have a seat." Season finale.
This is a Spoiled Bastard. It contains spoilers. That's the point . FYI: The Bastard Machine is on Facebook . Also: Twitter . For those of you interested, I'll be interviewed on stage in San Francisco, talking television, Nov. 23. Hope to see you there. Currently, about...  ...
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Power Rankings! Week 7: Top 5 stable. Next 10 a car crash. Plus: Rookie failure.
Welcome to the weekly "Power Rankings!" feature. For the back-story on how it started and how it's compiled, click here. And we're off:   RANK SHOW PREVIOUS TREND COMMENT 1 Mad Men 1 ↔ Not even the actress playing...  ...
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What we talk about when we talk about TV. Live on stage.
One of the many great things about television is that, for better or worse, it's our shared cultural experience. The Bastard Machine , of course, tends to focus on either top tier brilliance or random bits of stupidity in the medium - whether that's deconstructing "Mad Men" or wondering out ...
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"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 12: "The Grown Ups."
This is a Spoiled Bastard. It contains spoilers. That's the point. FYI: The Bastard Machine is on Facebook . Also: Twitter . I'm going to resist the temptation to read into the episode title and talk about readily apparent inferences to how "children" and adults handled the...  ...
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Power Rankings! Week 6: Those who can't, drop. Two and out.
Welcome to the weekly "Power Rankings!" feature. For the back-story on how it started and how it's compiled, click here. And we're off:   RANK SHOW PREVIOUS TREND COMMENT 1 Mad Men 1 ↔ We just opened the box. It...  ...
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"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 11: "The Gypsy and the Hobo."
This is a Spoiled Bastard. It contains spoilers. That's the point . FYI: The Bastard Machine is on Facebook . Also: Twitter. So what - or better yet, who - are you going to be for Halloween? "The Gypsy and the Hobo" is one of those episodes where there's not much to talk...  ...
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New "Who Speaks for Islam?" TV series about media images via Link TV kicks off this weekend
A new series called "Who Speaks for Islam?" will kick off Saturday on Link TV (also available to be screened online at linktv.org/whospeaksforislam) and it features a particularly relevant second episode titled "Muslims on Screen," with interviews and clips of television series that have...  ...
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