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Programming Note

Photograph by jmorgan. See you later, suckers It is with a heavy heart that I announce that I will be away on vacation next week. Robo-James (second from left) will preside over a severe, emotionless interregnum at Tuned In until I return on July 7. So be sure to check in during the week! No, [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: Real Housewives On Verge of Outnumbering CSIs

This one came over the transom while I was writing yesterday. Bravo is “heading South”—in creative ambition as well as geographically!—with a third edition of The Real Housewives of Name of Your City That Has Dumb Rich People Here: Expanding on the success of the original hit series, “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” and [...]

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Strike Watch: Maybe, Maybe Not

As the SAG contract expiration approaches on Monday, the New York Times looks at the reasons there might be a strike—and why, because of the threat of a strike, there will be a de facto “strike” for many movies anyway: Labor unrest continues to dominate the landscape in Hollywood, and the possibility of a strike [...]

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The Morning After: Doc-umentary

ABC I’ve been busy lately finishing up a couple pieces that will run while I’m away on vacation (yes, those are Robo-James’ servo motors you hear warming up in the background), each of which involve many many hours of TV screening. So I haven’t had time to watch much more of ABC’s docu-series Hopkins—about the [...]