NBC Photo: Chris Haston I have a couple of projects for the dead-tree edition of TIME that involve a lot of (1) watching shows that were on TV a long time ago and (2) watching shows that won’t be on TV for a long time. Some of my watching-TV-that’s-on-right-now has suffered. Therefore, even though I [...]

Doug Hyun / HBO File this under News I Didn’t Expect to Be Reading This Soon and Come to Think of It Probably Ever: The Hollywood Reporter says that HBO has renewed Tell Me You Love Me for a second season. Having watched the entire season, I’m delighted; having read the mixed critical reception and [...]

SPOILER ALERT: That ringing in your ears is telling you to watch Bionic Woman before you read this. NBC Photo: Alan Zenuk Say this for the producers of Bionic Woman: they seem to have paid attention over the summer to the criticisms of the pilot. Too bleak! people complained. Too humorless! Well, between the revised [...]

Addison is #18. But is there a bullet? RICHARD CARTWRIGHT / ABC It’s pretty fascinating, the little tidbits of info about viewing patterns that TiVo is able to accumulate, if you can get past the creepy, a box-in-my-living-room-is-reporting-back-to-corporate-HQ aspect of it. For instance: after a summer full of hype and advance screenings for new shows, [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Watch Top Chef before you read this post, or it’ll be spoiled like a spoonful of salmon roe in the hot sun. Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke If nothing else, I’m glad for Hung that Top Chef 3 is over, if only so he can stop trying to act like he has a soul, [...]