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Judge Temporarily Aufs Runway Move

Debate, schmebate! In really important news, NBC Universal won a preliminary injunction against the Weinstein Company’s moving Project Runway to Lifetime in January. NBC Universal’s statement: NBC Universal is pleased that the court granted our motion for a preliminary injunction against The Weinstein Company. The overwhelming evidence demonstrated that The Weinstein Company violated NBC Universal’s [...]

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Debate Liveblog Reminder

My liveblog (with Swampland’s Karen Tumulty) is not here at Tuned In; it’s at this super-special debate-liveblog page. Debate starts at 9 p.m. E.T.; see you there.

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TV Weekend: A Month of Sundays

Peter Iovino/Showtime Lots of TV going down Sunday—more than I can reasonably review here, more than you will probably watch. The rundown: * Dexter returns to Showtime. I’ve only watched one of several episodes the network sent out, but it fairly quickly involves Dexter—riding high from his escape from being caught for the harbor bodies [...]

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Office Watch: The Weigh-In Is the Hardest Part

NBC Photo: Chris Hasto SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, mix some lemon juice and cayenne, swallow a tapeworm and watch last night’s The Office.

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The Debate Is On!

And thus so is your drink. MSNBC, CNN and Fox News reports that McCain will go to Mississippi.

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Debate Drinking Game: You Make the Rules

Upon Yogi’s suggestion in the comments earlier, I hereby solicit your rules. Yogi kicks it off with: Drink every time someone says, “Ahmadinejad.” If there is no debate, you may drink anyway.

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Dead Tree Alert: The View, the Proud

Energy-policy expert Paris Hilton, center, with the View panel. / ABC My current column in the paper version of TIME looks at what the “respectable” media can learn from “soft” media like The View. No, seriously. That View. I can imagine people thinking that I’m another liberal journalist who only started giving credit to The [...]

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Debate Liveblog Tonight!

Assuming that I am not required to suspend blogging to address a national crisis, I’ll be covering tonight’s debate at the Time.com Live Debate Blog tonight. (If there is still a debate. And a time.com.) Bookmark it, and come show Karen T. and the Swampland folks how we Tuned Inlanders roll.

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The Morning After: Into Africa

Notice the tickbirds, who like to form a strong alliance and fly under the radar. / Monty Brinton/CBS Survivor: Gabon: Earth’s Last Eden debuted last night, along with a lot of other things. (You’ll get your Office post in good time! What am I, your slave?) No spoilers here, just a few bullet points about [...]

Now “C” Here

First the good news. The Los Angeles Times has started an arts blog. The more the merrier, especially if it means that their art critic Christopher Knight, one of the more useful voices around, gets to write more. Then the bad news. It’s called “Culture Monster”. To put it mildly, the Times seems to have [...]