I know, I know: too damn many election posts lately! What can I say? Writer’s strike + big news night + I stayed up until 2 a.m. and need to rationalize the investment of time = you’re stuck with it. Between Super Sunday and Super Tuesday, however, I forgot to link to my brief plug [...]

Reuters (and numerous others) are reporting that writers and producers are close to formulating an informal (repeat, informal) deal to end the strike. The WGA leadership has called a guild meeting Saturday to discuss the terms with the membership. Insert all the standard caveats and cautions here–the big one being that some hardliner writers want [...]

Were you glued to Super Tuesday election results last night? You weren’t alone. But you were close! Mediaweek’s Marc Berman reports that American Idol and House whupped Hill, Barack, Mac, Mitt and Huck where it counted. Fox, the only network not to air primetime election coverage (on Fox proper, not Fox News), beat the big-three [...]

One of the major problems for TV news in covering a national primary for multiple candidates: what color do you assign the candidates? For the Democrats, it’s relatively easy: Obama and Clinton are swapping light and dark blue on the various networks. But in the Republican three-way race, it gets uglier. On CNN, McCain gets [...]

MSNBC has Lester Holt in a large glass cage, which it calls a “virtual newsroom,” where he’s reporting on exit poll results, on a computer-generated screen that’s floating in midair. It’s only a short step from this to animated co-anchors. Would anybody notice the difference with a cartoon Jim Cramer? The network is also calling [...]

As CNN announces its projections in the 8 p.m. contests, all the candidates’ head shots–presumably taken at CNN debates–have the network’s logo in the background. On this channel at least, CNN is the winner in every state.

Robert Voets/CBS I’m not sure how much demand there is for reviews of new shows at Tuned In; they don’t generate many comments compared with other posts, though for all I know maybe there’s some vast silent majority of Tuned Inlanders that read them. All of which is excuse for my having watched two episodes [...]

So apparently last night the most-watched TV program in 25 years aired, and I didn’t see it. Well, I did, but mostly in fast-motion. Apparently in the midst of the Super Bowl ads, there was an actual good game last night. But what with hammering out 61[!] ad reviews in four hours, skipping through the [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, call your own cell phone from a pay phone and remind yourself to watch The Wire. Halfway through the season, the press and the cops are getting closer. / HBO: Paul Schiraldi Apologies in advance: this will be the lamest Wire Watch ever. Owing to the Super Bowl [...]