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JPTV Tonight: Earl Goes Inside

NBC Photo: Trae Patton Have I ever done a post on My Name Is Earl? I don’t think so. And I think I know why. I raved about Earl when it first came out. And I kept watching it, if not every week. It stayed as good as it was in the beginning. Pretty much [...]

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JP Radio: Say It Loud, I Watch TV and I'm Proud

I did an interview yesterday with Brian Lehrer, who hosts an excellent daily talk show at public radio station WNYC. Those of you outside The Capital of the Universe, as well as New Yorkers who were for some reason not glued to the radio at 10:40 a.m., can find the streaming audio here. I’m just [...]

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High Quality Show Alert! Also, Heavy Irony Alert!

Cavemen is evolving (or devolving), out of sight of critics. Gale Adler / ABC We’re introducing a new feature here at Tuned In, High Quality Show Alert!, which seeks to inform you about upcoming TV series that are apparently so awesome, so incredibly good, that the networks are refusing to screen them in advance for [...]

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Big Shots: Are We Not Men?

Michael Vartan was on Alias. Joshua Malina was on Sports Night and The West Wing. Dylan McDermott starred in The Practice; and Christopher Titus, in his underrated self-titled Fox sitcom. You could easily see these men leaving those shows and saying, “Well, that’s it. I’ll never do a series this good again.” In ABC’s Big [...]

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The Morning After: Bionic Sexy Private Life

NBC Photo: Alan Zenuk It’s Thursday morning weigh-in time, with four count them four new network premieres to evaluate. Should Addison have stayed in Seattle? Should Starbuck have stayed in space? Who won the quirk-off between the eccentric rich folks on Dirty Sexy Money and the eccentric detective on Life? Also interested in any second [...]