FOX The Wedding Bells It is a weighty responsibility, the job of professional TV judging. Your faithful critic sweats over his assessments of shows. He watches. He re-watches. He jots and ruminates and second-guesses. Mrs. Tuned In, on the other hand, usually needs to see about 30 seconds of a show to reach a judgment, [...]

This video comes to us courtesy of Daniel Radosh, whose forthcoming book on Christian pop culture I can’t wait to read. For anyone tired of the Gomorrah that is YouTube, there is now Godtube, a Christian video sharing site. This clip explains the evidence for the existence of God in the perfectly utilitarian shape of [...]

OK, so 24 repeats itself. That’s what it does; that’s what it’s for. It’s probably silly to even point it out. And I tend to agree with Tim Goodman that 24 is so ludicrous, it defies analysis. But it doesn’t defy a quick-and-dirty list, so here’s a taxonomy of elements from last night’s episode lifted [...]

From the you-didn’t-ask-for-it-you-got-it-anyway dept., this just came in over the transom from MTV: THE SEARCH IS ON! MTV AND MTV Tr3s JOIN FORCES TO FIND THE NEXT MENUDO BEGINNING ON MARCH 31 MTV Menudo New York, NY/Santa Monica, CA — (March 6, 2007) — The search to recreate Menudo, one of the biggest and most [...]

ABC/ HEIDI GUTMAN Gibson demonstrates the power of gravitas. Either his or Oprah’s. The argument behind the self-help concept The Secret–sorry, The Secret–is that if you want something, you can get it through force of will, determination and positive thinking. This may also be true of winning network-news ratings battles. In February, ABC won the [...]

If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes, remove the top of your head and input the contents of the episode before reading further. NBC Photo: Justin Lubin So, good news and bad news. On the one hand, Mohinder’s not dead. But on the bright side, Sylar could still kill him in the next episode! While [...]

OK, so if I told you there is a YouTube video of someone drawing John Locke’s face on an egg using his computer, would that be worth a post? OK, maybe not. Suppose I told you that video was the third most-watched video of the day on YouTube as I write this? Still not so [...]

Was able to catch the purportedly sacrilegious Discovery documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus last night, after a brief outage in one of my TiVo tuners that I must take to be the work of an angry God. It takes more than divine intervention, however, to stop the Satanic force that is television criticism. I [...]

WARNING: If you haven’t watched last night’s Battlestar Galactica and don’t want it spoiled, go the frak away. SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal It’s a strange experience watching sci-fi shows on advance screener DVDs. Because so many scenes contain effects that are added in postproduction at the last minute, the episodes are often swiss-cheesed [...]

CBS Ulrich on Jericho Any given season, there are at least a couple series that I watch, loyally and attentively, even though they are not, in any aesthetically defensible sense of the word, good. This year, that award has to go to Jericho, CBS’s postapocalyptic drama set in Kansas after a multiple nuke attack cripples [...]

SCI FI Channel Photo: BBC/Adrian Rogers Who’s afraid of YouTube? Viacom may be, but not Her Majesty’s broadcasters. The BBC has just announced a deal to launch three channels on YouTube, which will carry BBC news, documentaries and clips and video diaries from programs including Doctor Who. The broadcaster says it has worked out a [...]

My Culture Complex column in this week’s Time looks at the Lost Tomb of Jesus controversy as an example of the love/hate/love-to-hate relationship between Hollywood and Christianity. Just to be clear: I’m not taking a side on the accuracy of the documentary, or for that matter the New Testament; you want to hear from someone [...]

[Before anyone gets all exercised, the title refers to this. Clip made relatively SFW by bleeping, sadly.] Comedy Central The Sarah Silverman Show It’s always a pleasure to discover that a series I’ve favorably reviewed actually stays good after the opening episodes. That’s the case with The Sarah Silverman Program, which I’ll be watching tonight–or [...]

Virginia Heffernan over at the New York Times blog mill has one of those wish-I’d-thought-of-it-first posts, about YouTube as a parenting tool. I thought of her post this morning as the Tuned In brood shared a light media snack of the OK-Go treadmill video. (The panda sneeze is another favorite, and a favorite pastime is [...]