One more point I meant to bring up in this morning’s Idol Watch. Typically, Idol’s ratings slide off a bit in the early weeks of the finals, until the finale gets close. Even though I like the show (I’m serious!), I can see why. For at least the first month and a half, there may [...]

R Mickshaw / Getty Images for Fox My reviews of Beatles Night on American Idol are posted. The night wasn’t the travesty I might have expected—I imagined one Whitney-ized Lennon/McCartney ballad after another—but the highlights and lowlights didn’t come where I expected them, either. Chikezie tore the roof off the new set (there was a [...]

Showtime must be pleased it happened to be promoting this particular show right about now.

The other day at Tuned In we poked some fun at conservative talker Tucker Carlson, and as you know, that’s all it takes to destroy a TV show. MSNBC had made official that Tucker will be canceled after this week, so that David Gregory’s eyebrows can have their long-overdue showdown with Keith Olbermann’s. You may [...]

Showtime announced today that The L Word will end after its sixth season. I gave the show a few chances its first couple of seasons, but I never thought its writing and characters lived up to its ambitions (or maybe I just thought its ambitions were greater than they actually were). But I’ve known a [...]

The media has apparently stopped picking on Hillary Clinton enough for Saturday Night Live’s liking, because this weekend’s cold-open skit opted instead for a parody of Hillary’s 3 A.M. ad, showing a new President Obama flummoxed by a nuclear crisis and the White House furnace: Where the previous two debate skits were solidly pro-Hillary, or [...]

The Wire catches its last murder. / HBO photo: Nicole Rivelli SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, crack open a tub of cottage cheese for lunch and watch the last episode ever of The Wire. What is closure, anyway? People complained that The Sopranos didn’t give it, but its abrupt ending gave closure better than [...]