8 p.m.: How I Met Your Mother. OK, actually, I would be watching this, if I hadn’t already seen the finale. Now that FNL’s been reviewed, this is the bubble show I’m sending out the most positive waves for, and a few setups from past episodes (hint: pasta sauce) pay off in this finale. 9 [...]

I’m in the cheap seats of Radio City Music Hall, where I’ve found a wireless network. So we’re going to go cowboy-style and do an impromptu liveblog, until it wraps up or the John Henry that is my aging Time loaner laptop wears its little battery heart out. The Shins are playing over the sound [...]

Wait ’til next year: FNL comes back. / NBC Photo: Bill Records NBC just zapped us their fall schedule. In: five new dramas and one new sitcom. Out: Studio 60 (not too surprisingly); pretty much everything that debuted midseason (Andy Barker, Raines, Black Donnellys); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (actually, it’s being shipped off to [...]

In this week’s print Time, I sneak-peek Shrek the Third and look at how that movie franchise–with plenty of help in the book, TV and theater businesses–has made fairy-tale parodies bigger than the original fairy tales themselves: All this has been a welcome change from generations of hokey fairy tales with stultifying lessons: Be nice [...]