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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1617 days ago

Making It Work, Well Enough Anyway

By James Poniewozik

BRAVO If a show’s ratings potential can be judged by the number of people who ask me about it, unsolicited, before it comes out, Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style will be the top-rated television show of 2007. “Have you seen it yet?” people ask me. And “Is it any good?” And “Can I borrow the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1617 days ago

The All-TIME 100 TV Shows: Let the Beatdown Begin!

By James Poniewozik

I told you I had something big planned for you after my summer vacation, and here it is: another freaking list! Some time ago, time.com conscripted me to come up with a list of the top 100 shows in TV history. (We’d already covered movies, music and novels, but let’s be glad they got around [...]

+Television | 1617 days ago

All-TIME 100 TV Shows

By James Poniewozik
Everett

“I apologize. I know I left some of your favorite shows off this list. How do I know that? Because I left some of my favorite shows off this list. The happy and unfortunate fact is that there are far more than 100 great shows, and more created every year. Lists are incredibly important: they [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1617 days ago

Thompson to Leno: I'm Runnin'

By James Poniewozik

Five decades after the Nixon-Kennedy debates, three decades after an actor and former TV host was elected president and a good decade and a half after Bill Clinton blew sax on the Arsenio Hall show, the perception still persists that anytime a candidate uses TV strategically, it’s a sign that he or she is a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1618 days ago

Fall Walkup Poll: Pick the Hits!

By James Poniewozik

Every year around now, people ask me which fall shows I think are going to be hits and which ones will tank. Every year around now, I tell them that it’s my job to decide whether shows are good and interesting, not whether they’ll make money for some giant corporation. If I were in the [...]