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Early Buzz: Beyonce at the Superbowl, the debates, more

By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, guest blogger for Pop Candy
Beyonce will perform during the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show on Feb. 3, 2013 in New Orleans.

Your binders are full of pop culture news this morning:

-- Yes, please: Beyoncé will headline the Super Bowl halftime show, The Washington Post reports.

-- Hilary Mantel cemented her status as a literary superstar by winning the Booker Prize for her novel about Anne Boleyn, Bring Up the Bodies, The Awl tells us.

-- I like reading the TV critics' reviews of the presidential debates the day after, since at least a large portion of their point these days is to make good (and Tweet-able) TV. Here's Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times; here's my friend Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly. And speaking of Tweetable, here's an array of Hollywood reactions in real time.

- The AV Club's Sopranos in Ten Episodes.

- A Greek public broadcaster courted outrage by cutting a gay kiss from an airing of a season 1 episode of Downton Abbey, per Deadline. (Is anyone else more fascinated by the fact that they have a Golden Dawn party?)

You can find Jennifer Keishin Armstrong on Twitter at @jmkarmstrong or at her website.

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