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Television News from the New York Times The Academy Smiles With Both Faces – The Oscars telecast exposed an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in identity crisis: the ceremony was big and commercial; the winners were small and arty.Arts, Briefly: Against Oscars, Rival Networks See No Gold – CBS, NBC and Fox struggled in the ratings on Sunday opposite ABC’s coverage of the Academy Awards, which dwarfed all other shows with an audience of about 41 million. The TV Watch: Supersizing the Show (Austerity Is So 2009) – Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony was one enormous Hollywood stimulus package. Oscar Night Suspense, Then Poof! Cable’s Back – Cablevision customers in the New York area faced the prospect of Oscar night without Channel 7, the Oscar channel, because of a contract dispute. Television: No Enchanted Evenings in This Pacific Warfare – “The Pacific,” an HBO mini-series, beginning Sunday, by the team behind 2001’s “Band of Brothers,” follows three real-life Marines from Pearl Harbor to homecoming after V-J Day. Arts, Briefly: Renewed: ’30 Rock,’ ‘Office’ and ‘Community’ – NBC’s Thursday night sitcoms will all be back for the 2010-11 television season that starts next fall. At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce – The companies’ feud, most recently exemplified by a Disney move that temporarily prevented Cablevision customers from viewing the Academy Awards, promises to spread across the country to other cable providers and stations. For Web and Public TV, Brief Films That Dramatize Issues – An attempt by a public television stalwart to bring the young into the fold with punchy takes on social issues. |
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