Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1233 days ago

What's a Spoiler Now?

By James Poniewozik

I’m writing about the season premiere (or season re-premiere, or second-half-of-the-season premiere, or whatever) of Battlestar Galactica. The problem I’m having is that I cannot write anything about the show without spoiling or otherwise ruining something major. The first return episode is pretty much packed with highly explosive spoilerage, and that’s after Sci Fi deleted [...]

+Looking Around | 1233 days ago

David Ross on Hard Sell

By Richard Lacayo

Over the New Year weekend, David Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum in New York and then the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, attached an interesting comment to my post from last week about museums selling off work from their permanent collections to stabilize their finances. Here’s most of what he had to [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1233 days ago

Spinning Wheel, Got to Go Round

By James Poniewozik

So what do TV critics watch when they’re on vacation? For my part, largely what my children let me. Tuned In Jr. the Eldest, for instance, is in a game-show phase, which means I’m becoming reacquainted with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune after a long, long time.  On the TV beat, you tend to focus [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+1233 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Mediapocalypse Now

By James Poniewozik

I’ve been on vacation the past couple weeks, but Time ran a Tuned In column of mine in my absence. A robo-column, if you will. The topic: the general implosion of the media business… When the economy sneezes, the media business catches pneumonia. The problem for the media business in 2008 was that the economy [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1233 days ago

I'm Back! And I Brought TV With Me!

By James Poniewozik

So I’m back from vacation. (Yes, I was gone.) And better yet, TV is too, almost. Yes, it’s still staggering to its feet—last night we got servings of Million Dollar Password and the debut of Superstars of Dance—but this month sees the return, among others, of Damages, Scrubs, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love and Flight [...]