I would be remiss if I did not tell you that TV’s most awesomely weird children’s show (and not-children’s show), Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba!, was airing new episodes this week. And that–for those parents who are not ashamed of further obsessing over their kids’ obsessions–the show has a behind-the-scenes production blog. And if I [...]

Monty Brinton/CBS We’ve waited four months for Barney to complete that adjective, and he does, on the season return of How I Met Your Mother. The episode itself is an average one at best–including a dull guest role by Mandy Moore as Ted’s rebound squeeze and a slightly better Enrique Iglesias turn as Robin’s–but there [...]

NBC Photo: Mitch Haddad; Robert Voets/CBS; NBC Photo: David Moir Why did Monday become nerd night on network TV? Maybe it’s because it’s far enough away from Sci Fi Channel’s Friday night programming block; maybe it’s because viewers need a refuge of programming with more testosterone than Monday Night Football yet less estrogen than Dancing [...]

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration / FOX No new-series premieres from last night for you to postmortem (is that a verb?), although we did have the first night of The War. There will be no Ken Burns Watch here at Tuned In, partly because I’m not sure the documentary lends itself well to that, [...]