We tend to write about big TV here at Tuned In: Lost, American Idol, The Sopranos, etc. Time is a big magazine, after all, and when I write about Travel Channel shows I love, the world does not exactly beat a path to my door. But I love my little TV too. If I didn’t [...]

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet watched Lost, secure your gas mask. It’s going to get ugly. This was not the best episode of Lost to be watching, on vacation, at my mother’s house, without benefit of TiVo. There were plenty of scenes I’d have liked to have paused, freeze-framed and rewound. Anyway, I’ll [...]

Here at Tuned In headquarters, I have limited access to our traffic statistics, which are overseen by the wizards behind the curtain at time.com. That means I have only a vague sense of what kind of posts people are most interested in reading. The comments-section activity is a vague guide, and sometimes a post will [...]

In my absence this week, the editors of time.com have decided to do something really crazy with out weekly American Idol reviews and have them done by someone who actually knows something about music: Josh Tyrangiel, editor of time.com, Time magazine music critic and, after all the rounds of corporate cost-cutting we’ve done here, probably [...]

As mentioned yesterday, the broadcast networks announce their new fall schedules next week. What’s missing from primetime now that you’d most like to see added? (I’ll start: primetime musicals! I’m hoping CBS picks up its pilot Viva Laughlin, a remake of the British miniseries Viva Blackpool, a musical mystery involving a sleazy casino owner. Yes, [...]

While I’m away this week, I thought I’d set up a daily discussion post at Tuned In, kind of like a color-coded set of frozen dinners for you to thaw and reheat in my absence. Herewith, the first of your freezer-burned treats: A week from today, the broadcast networks announce their fall schedules at the [...]

I’m away this week, traveling to a family wedding. (I know! I just took a week off in April! We’re like the French here at Time Inc., except less well-dressed.) So posting will be lighter than usual. You’re welcome. You’re not entirely off the hook, however. I’ve set up the RoboPoster 3000 machine to post [...]

As a man in my late 30s, I know all about what it’s like to be a teenage girl with problems. The world seems confusing. Your body and emotions are changing. Society is sending you confusing messages. When it’s all too much to take, there’s just one person you want to turn to: the actress [...]

There’s no Arts section proper this week in the print Time, because most of the issue is given over to the Time 100, in which I sing the praises of Tina Fey. Fey is one of several TV-related honorees, who also include America Ferrera, Simon Fuller, Rosie O’Donnell, Shonda Rhimes and Brian Williams. I didn’t [...]

Gilmore Girls is dead. The CW network announced the show’s cancellation, after its May 15 finale, today. Variety has the news. I feel a little sad and a little guilty, because I watched the show avidly for several seasons, then almost completely lost interest after Rory’s first season or so at Yale. Was I wrong? [...]

I don’t really have anything to say about last night’s American Idol vote-off, except that America is a wise and discerning country. (I thought we’d get one or the other of Phil and Chris, not both.) But clearly you have something to say, judging by the free-for-all yesterday’s post incited in the comments, including: Bon [...]

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, go to Hell. Or watch the episode, after which you’ll realize why I just told you that. ABC/MARIO PEREZ How much did I love this episode? I loved it so much I wanted to take it behind the Black Rock and get it pregnant. I [...]

One more post in the spirit of ’80s Rock Day: Among the technological archaisms I’ve had to explain to the Tuned In children–what a “record” is, why they call it “dialing” a phone, the fact that, once, you couldn’t rewind TV shows–is the fact that, a long time ago, musicians used to make little movies [...]

My American Idol reviews are posted, and reading them over–yikes!–it would appear I do not care very much for the work of Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Cue the angry e-mails from the Garden State! Seriously, though, if this is the best remaining choice we’ve got to represent rock on American Idol, then I greatly look [...]

NBC Universal Photo: Virginia Sherwood In a sign of more-serious plans on his part, or boredom on the part of the political press, I’m not sure which, speculation is building that former Senator / Law & Order star Fred Thompson will enter the Republican 2008 primary race. I’ll leave the analysis of Thompson’s chances to [...]