I should not admit this as a professional TV watcher, but there are some shows I simply do not get. One of these is The Closer, which back in its first season I decided got far too much credit for glomming the slightest bit of character development (Kyra Sedgwick’s crime-solver-with-issues basically amounting to Jane Tennison [...]

In this morning’s HBO roundup, Tuned In habitue Chaddogg posts a question too good not to milk a whole blog post out of: How does HBO measure the success of its shows? Is it just ratings, and if so, how does it factor in the decrease due to the number of people who don’t subscribe? [...]

Trojan, the condom maker, is launching a new ad campaign for its prophylactics this week, but on Fox and CBS, it appears the advertiser is instead going to have to, um, pull out. The New York Times reports this morning that the two networks rejected the condom ads, which will run on ABC, NBC and [...]