How I Met Your Mother (weirdly, it’s about the Super Bowl, as if to promote its network’s broadcast retroactively), Heroes, 24–although, after the last couple episodes, it’s on thin ice with me. A little more Bauer family drama and they can blow the whole thing up as far as I’m concerned.

Variety is reporting that Jeff Zucker is going to be promoted to chief executive of the entire NBC Universal company, later today or tomorrow. It’s a curious move, because Zucker has headed up the NBC television business for the last several years, during which, you may recall, there has not exactly been a ton of [...]

My Super Bowl ad-review extravanganza is now up. It doesn’t take comments, so feel free to use this post to tell me how thoroughly full of it I am. To be honest, I’m too exhausted and commercialed-out to sum this up into one big wrap-up synthesis (I was shocked when I looked at the finished [...]

Continuing what is fast becoming a tradition here at Tuned In–namely, letting C. Brown come up with post topics for me–our correspondent asks: Who do you think is going to bite it on Heroes? I’m praying for Simone. Glad you reminded me, C. Brown, because while I have no inside knowledge I do have a [...]

It was a night to do a Midwestern boy’s heart good. There was Indianapolis squaring off against Chicago, of course. But in the end–or rather at the half–it was Minneapolis who tore up the field. When CBS announced Prince as the Super Bowl halftime act, I worried it meant that the wizard of Paisley Park [...]