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“What is a Wisconsin Film?”: 2013 Wisconsin Film Festival
What is a “Wisconsin” film? Such was the question facing me when I was offered a programming job in this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival. Now in its 15th year, the festival (running April 11th-18th)...
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Why Netflix is Not Emmy’s Online TV Vanguard
Every year the Primetime Emmy Award nominations tell a story. Most times, though, it’s a story about the nuances of the Emmys themselves; when Downton Abbey made the switch from miniseries to drama...
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Fall Premieres 2013: Fox
A year after losing their 18-49 demographic crown to CBS in a rather ignominious defeat given the Eye network’s reputation for skewing old, Fox finds itself picking up the pieces. Its new lineup finds...
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards
When Stephen Colbert accepted his first of two awards on behalf of his team at The Colbert Report, which took home the Emmy for Writing for a Variety Series before ending compatriot Jon Stewart’s...
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Fall Premieres 2013: CBS
CBS has normally had to convince advertisers that it was total viewers that mattered, consistently losing the demographic crown but dominating among older viewers. A year after dethroning Fox and...
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Fall Premieres 2013: The CW
As everyone’s favorite pretend broadcast network, The CW suffers from low ratings and benefits from low expectations. This has allowed them to sneakily cultivate a range of interesting genre fare and...
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