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.

While Barack Obama—um, I guess in his case it is campaigning?—appears as well. Last one for today, I swear!

Earlier I said I was suspending further posts on the campaign/debate suspension issue. I lied. Get over it. Politics ain’t beanbag. This one isn’t really political, though. David Letterman’s ranting against John McCain last night is currently the number one video on YouTube. But not the minute-and-a-half official CBS video I embedded earlier (which has [...]

In the second half of her Katie Couric interview—the foreign-policy segment, bumped to tonight’s CBS Evening News by last night’s John McCain sit-down—Sarah Palin doubles down on Alaska’s proximity to Russia as foreign-policy credential: Watch CBS Videos Online

OK, one more post re: the Suspension Bridge to Nowhere, and then I pledge to suspend such postings in order to focus 100% on the national crisis of reviewing Project Runway. I posted a CBS video excerpt from David Letterman’s tirade about John McCain last night, but it doesn’t include what was probably his best [...]

Monty Brinton/CBS I did not write a proper review of Gary Unmarried, for a simple reason: I previewed the pilot, when it was called Project Gary, and it ain’t got any better with age. Dissenting opinions from Jay Mohr fans, postmortems of Knight Rider, or David Blaine status updates welcomed here. I’ll have a Project [...]

We’re big on transparency here at Tuned In. So when I tell you that I believe tomorrow’s televised debate should go on as planned, you are free to conclude that I am biased as an Obama supporter. Or that I am biased as a TV critic interested in having exciting TV events to critique. But [...]

Debate, schmebate—you ditch Letterman, and there’s hell to pay: Craig Ferguson, meanwhile, has Dave’s back:

The New York Post’s Don Kaplan asks something I wondered aloud to my editor yesterday but never got around to blogging (or finding the answer to): why in hell did they schedule the first Presidential debate on one of the week’s least-watched nights of TV? Bonus question: does this mean you can forget about targeting [...]

He’s a dad!

An ironic nostalgia lunchbox in video form. / NBC Photo: Mitchell Haaseth Pretend you’re a TV screenwriter. You’re writing an episode of a cop procedural, involving the murder of a washed-up ’80s TV star. The opening scene of the episode is a scene from his former hit action show. You want to make it cheesy, [...]

From a company I shall leave unnamed comes a PR pitch with a subject line I am going to hope is a joke: National Punctuation Day is Sept 24, How Are You Celebrating? Then again, maybe it isn’t. From the body of the email: We’re not the only ones celebrating correct grammar, the [product name [...]

Lance Staedler/CBS To understand why The Mentalist is on CBS’ fall schedule, you need to understand three basic things: 1. CBS got burned with shows like Viva Laughlin and Swingtown last year 2. A lot of people apparently like Psych 3. CBS is singlemindedly convinced that Simon Baker is destined to be a big TV [...]