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#MissionConan, showing Conan's Al Udeid hijinks, airs on TBS Monday Jan. 25.

Conan’s Al Udeid trip to air on TBS Monday

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By on Offbeat

Remember when talk show host and funnyman Conan O’Brien paid a visit to the troops at Al Udeid Air Base last November? Monday night on TBS, everybody’s going to get a chance to see what he was up to during his trip to Qatar with First Lady Michelle Obama. The special episode will be called #MissionConan (which is how they’re promoting it on social media). Besides Michelle Obama — who, it seems, challenged Conan to drop and give her 50 — O’Brien was joined by comedians John Mulaney, Laurie Kilmartin and Brian Kiley and singer Grace Potter. Shortly after his…

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Civilian casualties front-and-center on ‘Homeland’ premiere

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Showtime’s controversial CIA drama “Homeland” returned with a two-part episode Sunday night. And in the premiere, the Air Force plays a central role in a fatal airstrike that will clearly drive this season’s plot. Major spoilers for the premiere follow, in case you haven’t seen it yet. The episode begins with brilliant-but-unstable CIA analyst Carrie Matheson (Claire Danes) — now the station chief in Kabul — ordering a strike on a terrorist leader named Haqqani in the Pakistani tribal region. However, the CIA’s intel didn’t include the fact that Haqqani was at a wedding, and multiple women and children are killed…

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Civilian casualties front-and-center on 'Homeland' premiere

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Showtime’s controversial CIA drama “Homeland” returned with a two-part episode Sunday night. And in the premiere, the Air Force plays a central role in a fatal airstrike that will clearly drive this season’s plot. Major spoilers for the premiere follow, in case you haven’t seen it yet. The episode begins with brilliant-but-unstable CIA analyst Carrie Matheson (Claire Danes) — now the station chief in Kabul — ordering a strike on a terrorist leader named Haqqani in the Pakistani tribal region. However, the CIA’s intel didn’t include the fact that Haqqani was at a wedding, and multiple women and children are killed…

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