The numbers are in for last night’s debate and the winner is… still Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. John McCain and Barack Obama drew over 63 million viewers last night, according to Nielsen, but that was still under the nearly 70 million pairs of eyeballs attracted by their running mates Thursday night. (All three debates [...]

Though Tuned In has upped its politics-and-news content as the election gets closer, I haven’t covered campaign ads much. That’s partly because we have the rest of the political blog world for that, but also because I hardly ever see campaign ads, except online and on cable news. As a TV critic with Tivo and [...]

It’s a double shot of offensive/scatological comedy tonight. On Comedy Central, The Sarah Silverman Program returns for the second half of its second season, with an outstanding episode in which Sarah gets high and discovers that it makes her a genius. At least for as long as the buzz lasts. I don’t have a clip, [...]

Not that surprising, but too bad, anyway: Michael Ausiello reports that FX has cancelled The Riches. I’ll admit the show was uneven and didn’t live up to its potential, but that potential was pretty great, and when the series was on, Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were fantastic. Its premise, of people trying to flim-flam [...]