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Link Tank: TV Blog Coalition Roundup for May 15-17

Televisionary is proud to be a member of the TV Blog Coalition. At the end of each week, we'll feature a roundup of content from our sister sites for your delectation.

This week, I was once again consumed with all things Lost, offering my in-depth thoughts and theories about the two-hour season finale ("The Incident, Parts One and Two").

I also reviewed the season finale of FOX's Dollhouse, took another look at NBC's Parks and Recreation (and offered my thoughts on how best to fix the flagging series), raved about the season finales of FOX's Fringe, NBC's 30 Rock, HBO's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and CBS' The Amazing Race, and offered an advance review of BBC America's latest reality series Don't Tell the Bride as well as my thoughts about CW's potential Gossip Girl spin-off.

And I shared news about the NBC Infront here in Los Angeles, Party Down getting renewed for a second season, Doctor Who's David Tennant coming aboard Masterpiece Contemporary as the new host, ABC ordering Flash Forward to series, NBC passing on David E. Kelley's Legally Mad, Chuck and Dollhouse still kicking, and FOX picking up Past Life, Sons of Tucson, and Human Target to series.

Elsewhere in the sophisticated TV-obsessed section of the blogosphere, members of the TV Blog Coalition were discussing the following items...
  • Buzz got pumped about the upcoming sneak peek of Glee and shared some tidbits she learned from the cast. (BuzzSugar)
  • So we finally get to see who Jacob is on Lost, and then his nemesis turned out to be... Richard Hatch? (Scooter McGavin's 9th Green)
  • Vance celebrated his 2000th post on the blog by remembering some of his favorites over the years, including Everwood, Lost and Friday Night Lights. (Tapeworthy)
  • Dan watched the premiere of The Fashion Show and found a temporary filler for the Project Runway-sized hole left in his heart. He still misses Tim Gunn, though. (TiFaux)
  • It's (VERY) early, but Matt is already excited about the second season of Fringe. (TV Fanatic.)
  • Kate was bemused and befuddled when Food Network renewed lying, cheating Robert Levine's show (TV Filter)

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