Earlier today, I denigrated the proposed Fox variety show starring the Osbourne family by comparing the idea to The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. Afterward, I decided to surf YouTube for some clips of the Brady Bunch show, which I haven’t seen since I was a teeny boy. And now I must hereby take back and [...]

…or good news, depending on how you think of TV. Despite the troubles of big-scale primetime TV, the New York Times reports that people are watching more TV than ever, according to Nielsen. They’re just watching it more of it on cable, online, or on other small screens. Individual audiences may be getting smaller, but [...]

My colleague Anita Hamilton breaks down the business of NBC Universal’s purchase of the Weather Channel. Or should we say, its purchase of weather.com: NBC may have other motivations for its new acquisition — particularly on the Web and in digital broadcasts. While consumers have little reason to type nbc.com into their browsers, The Weather [...]

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James. It has been a pleasure task to serve you. Flesh-James will return next week, at which point Robo-James will return to my usual routine of preparing Flesh-James’ coffee and staring [...]

Unless Robo-James sabotaged my vehicle, the Tuned In family is spending this week in North Carolina, part of my plan to vacation this year only in electoral battleground states. (Look out, Missouri!) Because it’s almost July 4 weekend—as you read this, not when I write it—I was thinking about regional television, and how much of [...]

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James.

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an automatically generated thread in which all humans may discuss recent television transmissions in the absence of Flesh-James.

One of the tasks I had to shuffle off my desk before vacation was a mercifully brief review of PBS’s first—and very possibly last—primetime animated series, Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns. It was one of the few times that my stony critic’s heart actually felt remorse about having to call it as I [...]