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Housekeeping: When Do You Like Your Lostwatch?

By James Poniewozik

A quick question to anyone here reading the blog at this hour: are you checking Tuned In wondering when the hell I’m going to post Lostwatch? Because here’s the thing, I already wrote it. Sometimes I write it up as soon as I watch, sometimes the next morning. But even when I write it immediately [...]

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quarterlife Day Continues! It's Off to Bravo

By James Poniewozik

So there was this show, quarterlife. It started as a pilot on ABC. Then it got made on the Web. Then NBC bought it. Then it aired it, Tuesday night, and 3.1 million people watched. Then it got canceled. And now comes word that NBC’s corporate sibling Bravo is picking up up the series instead. [...]

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quarterlife canceled after onesixthofitsrun

By James Poniewozik

That was quick. After pulling just over 3 million viewers in its initial runs, quarterlife is no more at NBC. The network pulled it after just one of the six episodes ordered, tying it with Emily’s Reasons Why Not as the shortest-lived network series ever. Producer Marshall Herskovitz quickly issued a statement vowing to carry [...]

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quarterlife and What the Strike Did(n't) for TV

By James Poniewozik

I’ve heard a lot of excuses for failed TV series in my day as a critic. Usually they involve blaming the network, which is a good move because, hey, even people who love TV hate networks! The network didn’t promote us enough. They gave us a crappy time slot. They moved us to too many [...]

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William F. Buckley

By James Poniewozik

I was on deadline most of the day yesterday, so I didn’t get around to noting the passing of Buckley, who–as Richard Corliss writes here–was as important a TV figure as he was a political and publishing one. Buckley was both a living anachronism and a man ahead of his time, as Richard points out; [...]

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The Morning After: I Was a Willow Last Night in My Dream

By James Poniewozik

Smithson goes crazy on Crazy on You. / Frank Micelotta / Getty for Fox I was the youngest child in my family, with siblings nine to fourteen years older than me. (Yes, I was an accident.) What happens when you grow up with older sibs is that you end up having the pop cultural references [...]