So the LA Times says that George Lucas says that he’s just started work on something that maybe-possibly-just-might-if-it-ever-gets-around-to-happening be a live-action Star Wars TV series. On the one hand, I’m loath to comment on nascent projects like these, which have a way of turning out never to exist. On the other hand, this is a [...]

Robert Voets/CBS It didn’t have to be this way. I feel compelled to defend Viva Laughlin at least that far–and it’s as far as I’m willing to go–because it’s important to separate the deserved criticism of this truly bad show from the undeserved criticism. Namely, that it was doomed to be bad because it was [...]

MICHAEL ROBERTS / ABC It’s a deadline day for me, so I’ll leave it to you to weigh in on last night’s TV, especially Pushing Daisies. If the press reports have been correct, this is about the point in the series where Warner Brothers locked Barry Sonnenfeld out of the bank vault to rein in [...]

Should we be angry we got only 10 episodes of JFC, or glad we got that many? HBO photo: John P. Johnson I’ve been working on my review of CBS’s musical mystery Viva Laughlin, which, to give you a preview, is just as bad as you’ve heard, but not for the reasons you might think. [...]

Last week I asked what new fall shows you’d decided to stick with. Well, time passes and things change, and this seems worth checking in on weekly for a while. Are there any shows that last week convinced you to give up on? Shows you finally caught up with on DVR and decided to add? [...]

A big part of me was hoping that Don Imus’ rumored return to the air would stay a radio and not a TV story, so that I could blissfully ignore it on Tuned In. But you write a cover story on the guy, and you have certain obligations. It’s the Pottery Barn rule of journalism. [...]

Barbara Nitke / FX This is where we talk about Tuesday night TV on Wednesday morning. It’s obvious by now, right? You’re particularly invited to post any reactions to last night’s Damages, since I’ve fallen behind on the show (and thus may sit out this thread to avoid the spoilers). What’s your verdict now?

“If I lived in a place like this, it would be impossible for me not to be happy.” — Jamie HBO photo: Alan Fraser I haven’t been quoting Jamie a lot in these reviews, but this–Jamie drooling over the house that Carolyn and Palek can’t wait to flee–is really Tell Me You Love Me in [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn on your TV and do whatever it tells you to. Chris Haston / NBC The bad news: No Hiro. The good news: No Peter! The bad news: More Nathan. The good news: He shaved! Because his kids told him to! Guess his spiritual crisis is over! In [...]

So yesterday at Tuned In, we talked about economic free marketeers on TV, and about Drew Carey. Well, friends, it all circles back–to an (online) TV show by economic free-marketeer Drew Carey. In addition to hosting Power of Ten and The Price Is Right, Carey has started hosting webcasts for reason.tv, the video webcasting arm [...]

Dean Hendler / NBC It’s your Monday-night discussion post. Whose amnesia is more convincing: Christina Applegate’s or Peter Petrelli’s? Also, I’m eager to hear reports on Chuck–the first episode I hadn’t seen on DVD–because not only did I not watch, I neglected to TiVo it. I claim amnesia! I may have to resort to Amazon [...]

ABC Tonight sees the debut of ABC’s Samantha Who?, in which Christina Applegate plays an amnesia victim forced to slowly discover that, in her former life, she was a first-class beeyotch. I won’t be watching it, because I already have. My quick take: good concept, decent execution, unlikely to be around long enough to get [...]

The afternoon’s Fox Business Network Fair and Balanced Moment comes courtesy of afternoon anchor duo Cheryl Casone and David Asman. The pair introduced a report from Fox’s Adam Shapiro on the campaign promises of presidential candidates–mostly Democrats–and what they would cost taxpayers. “Bottom line,” Shapiro concluded, “Democrats saying raise taxes, Republicans saying hold the line [...]

Robert Voets/CBS The Fox Business Network launched this morning, but there was a major change today at a more important TV chronicle of the American marketplace. Drew Carey took over The Price Is Right. The gods smiled on Carey, or at least his contestants, his first time out: every player won their pricing game, for [...]

While watching the first morning of Fox Business News today, I looked back at an essay I wrote a few years ago on Fox News, where I wrote that the channel’s success owed as much as anything to its attitude and its aesthetics. “Traditional, detached TV news tells you the news is interesting,” I wrote. [...]

Remember K-Ville? Yeah, it’s still on the air, but still… remember it? Remember how we were discussing that there was a great story in there, about New Orleans and reconstruction and what has become of the city, if only Fox hadn’t turned it into a mediocre cop procedural? Remember how we were thinking that it [...]

DANNY FELD / ABC Discussion time for any and all weekend TV. For instance: Is anyone still watching Moonlight? For another instance: It occurred to me after the fact that I’d never gotten around to doing a review for Women’s Murder Club Friday night on ABC, which, believe me, was probably best for all of [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Crack open some creme de menthe and watch Mad Men before you read this post. Carin Baer/AMC Watching this season of Mad Men season reminds me what it was like watching The Sopranos’ first season–being amazed at how in the zone it was, how it managed to string together one fantastic episode after [...]

You know that we like us some title sequences here at Tuned In. But you have an advantage over me in this department–because I’ve been reviewing new shows off DVD screeners, which rarely have final titles, there are plenty of new shows whose title sequences I’ve never seen. Those few I have–Reaper and Pushing Daisies, [...]