Image above by roctopus, used under Creative Commons license. I’ll be on vacation from about—hang on, let me check my watch… now, until Jan. 5. I’ll be checking in on Tuned In and posting when events or the spirit move me, which is to say, don’t expect too much. But in the meantime, [...]

This should keep you busy for a while. ABC has released a new Lost trailer, replete with cryptic tantalyzing glimpses. Who’s on fire? Who’s falling from the balcony? What’s Desmond doing with Penny? And when is he doing it? Is Locke saying “Paul is dead”? (Actually, sl-lost.com says it has backwards audio of Locke’s reversed [...]

Today is the release of the DVD of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog at Amazon.com, and if there is anyone whom you love this holiday season—yourself, for instance—you should buy it for them.  Wait!, you may be saying. Yes, I know Dr. Horrible was number four on TIME’s best TV shows of 2008. But I already [...]

  Elsewhere in today’s New York Times, Alan Sepinwall has an incisive and funny op-ed on why the NBC Jay Leno decision marks the end of broadcast television as we know it. The move, he says, was for numerous business reasons “as inevitable as it is sad.” He recalls Tina Fey accepting an award from [...]