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Columnist, Entertainment Weekly and EW.com

Mark Harris is a writer and former executive editor of EW.

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PopWatch Who will replace Matt Lauer? Who cares!
by Mark Harris | Apr 05, 2013 12:00 PM

The search for the next host of Today feels like a reality competition series—with the lowest stakes imaginable and a…

PopWatch TV pilot season: Now for something completely the same
by Mark Harris | Mar 08, 2013 09:32 AM

We've reached pilot season, the time of year when the networks start looking at candidates for this fall's…

PopWatch The dirty secret of 'Scandal': One of TV's most ridiculous, chaotic bat#@!*-crazy shows -- also one of its best
by Mark Harris | Feb 07, 2013 12:22 PM

I’ll get right to the point, because if the show I’m about to recommend has one rule, it’s…

The Year that was This was the year that ... everyone came out in parenthetical
by Mark Harris | Dec 21, 2012

Why coming out in 2012 was both a big story and a non-story at the same time

PopWatch Opinion: A re-examination of Hollywood and violence in the wake of Newtown
by Mark Harris | Dec 19, 2012 05:30 PM

In the days since President Obama’s speech in Newtown, Conn., following the massacre in which 20 young children…

News and Notes In reality, we'd like some honesty
by Mark Harris | Aug 03, 2012

Reality-show judges have gone soft, thanks to celebrities who are more concerned about burnishing their images than critiquing contestants. Memo to Mariah: It is possible to do both.

Features Nora Ephron: 1941-2012
by Mark Harris | Jul 06, 2012

For a generation of writers and filmmakers, particularly women, she was a witty role model who reinvented the romantic comedy in hits like ''When Harry Met Sally...'' and ''You've Got Mail''

PopWatch By the Way, We're Gay. The New Art of Coming Out
by Mark Harris | Jul 02, 2012 01:10 PM

In an email to journalist Andrew Sullivan that was posted on the Daily Beast, Anderson Cooper acknowledged that…

Cover Story By the way, we're gay
by Mark Harris | Jun 22, 2012

...and it's truly no big deal. Or is it? How Hollywood's stars have created a new, quiet — and incredibly effective — way to come out

PopWatch Mark Harris: TV's Diversity Dilemma
by Mark Harris | May 04, 2012 09:22 AM

Network execs are making a halfhearted effort to cast more diverse characters -- but too often those characters…

Guest Column TV's crash-and-burn problem
by Mark Harris | Apr 13, 2012

New series tend to launch with great ambitions and then wear out their welcome. Right now, ''Smash,'' ''Awake,'' ''Missing,'' and ''Touch'' are all trying (and failing) to stay interesting

News + Notes 5 ways to fix movie ratings
by Mark Harris | Apr 06, 2012

In the wake of a ridiculous R rating for ''Bully,'' are we ready to scrap the antiquated MPAA system?

The Final Cut Loving 'The Voice,' so over 'Idol'
by Mark Harris | Feb 17, 2012

Could it be any clearer that one show is about talent and hope, and the other's about desperation and false theatrics? This is why ''Ido''l should be looking over its shoulder

News + Notes Kristen Wiig wigs out Hollywood
by Mark Harris | Jan 27, 2012

She's had the audacity to say that she doesn't want to make a ''Bridesmaids'' sequel. Much as we love the movie, she's absolutely right. Here's what Wiig understands that the studios don't

Cover Story 'The Girl With the Dragon Tatto': Enter the 'Dragon'
by Mark Harris | Dec 30, 2011

Those eyes, those lips, those piercings. Lisbeth Salander is the series' inscrutable, androgynous, and explosive heroine -- and we can't stop thinking about her. Here's how David Fincher and actress Rooney Mara brought the character to life, and what's behind her incendiary appeal

The Final Cut Who are you calling funny?
by Mark Harris | Nov 04, 2011

The new sitcom ''Whitney'' isn't as bad as all the haters say it is — although it sure is close. Still, the heated reaction to the show tells us a lot about our warring visions of TV comedy

The Final Cut I caught a bug at 'Contagion'
by Mark Harris | Sep 23, 2011

The thriller freaked me out — then made me think about what sort of system we should have in place when a killer virus hits the fan. Does the movie say something nice about government?

PopWatch How Viola Davis saves 'The Help'
by Mark Harris | Aug 26, 2011 12:04 PM

Here’s my contribution to the debate over The Help, the much-discussed, fast-growing hit about black domestic servants and…

The Final Cut How Viola Davis saves 'The Help'
by Mark Harris | Aug 26, 2011

Her riveting turn in the hot-button movie is better, truer, and deeper than the movie itself

Book Review Jane Fonda
by Mark Harris | Aug 24, 2011

After at least nine other biographies, not to mention Fonda's vivid 2005 memoir, My Life So Far ,…