Lara Spencer and Pat O’Brien, neither of whom I actually met. / THE INSIDER Jessica Simpson will be on The Insider tonight. And so will I–although not in the same room–talking about that top-100 list you wish I would shut up about already. Good thing I decided not to put Access Hollywood on the list. [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Watch Mad Men before reading this post. Residents of Illinois, fast-forward through all the laxative ads. AMC At last, a good Betty episode. In my Kid Nation column today, I have a paragraph comparing hands-on modern parenting to the way Mad Men shows the kids of 1960 as having more separate (and much [...]

MONTY BRINTON / CBS Mad Men Watch will be slightly delayed today, and this time it really is due to deadlines and fall-screener backlog. (Get used to that excuse. You’ll be hearing it a lot for a few weeks.) In the meantime, I refer you to my column in the brand-new TIME print magazine, about [...]

The TIME presidential candidates’ spouses poll, summarized from an entirely TV-centric perspective: * Bill and Hillary watch Grey’s Anatomy together. Which demands the follow-up: Team Addison or Team Meredith? * The Kuciniches do not watch television, just like President Bush. After the campaign, they’ll have to have George and Laura over for seitan burgers. * [...]