Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:   

  Hours 3 and 4 of 24 season 7 aired last night, which means that you’re caught up to the point that I am. No spoilers here, except to note that last night revealed a certain twist that, judging from the comments at this and other discussion boards, everyone on the planet had already guessed. [...]

Last night Slumdog Millionaire—the Danny Boyle film centered on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—cleaned up at the Golden Globes. Now it looks like the American version of Millionaire may be a winner too. ABC, reports TV Week, is considering bringing the show back for a summer run to mark its [...]

The Television Critics Association winter press tour is going on now in sunny L.A., and I am following it online from freezing Brooklyn. So far, it seems, the biggest news to emerge has been something that didn’t happen—cancer-sufferer Patrick Swayze was hospitalized and missed the session for A&E’s The Beast. But here are some bits [...]

  While I grind away on deadline this morning, let me invite those of you who missed it to relive last night’s Golden Globes liveblog by Richard Corliss, Kate Betts and me, from the first strokes of Jay Manuel’s Glamastrator to the last piece of hardware given out. What were the high and lowlights for [...]

Watching the Golden Globes, accompanied by your laptop and the liveblog stylings of TIME movie critic Richard Corliss, fashion editor Kate Betts and Mr. Tuned In. You’ll find us at the Golden Globes liveblog, starting 7:30 p.m. E.T.-ish.  What you do after that Sunday night is your business.

  Much of the advance coverage of the season premiere of 24 has focused on the question: is Jack Bauer going soft for the age of Obama? This is a great benefit for the producers, since it deflects attention from the more pressing question: Does 24 still suck, and if so, how much?   

Those incessant public-service announcements reminding you to prepare your TV for the digital switchover may have to be updated (and stick around a while longer). The Obama transition team is recommending that the switch–in which analog signals will be replaced by digital ones–be delayed past the planned Feb. 17 date. The digital signals are clearer [...]

After putting up my post about Ken Tucker’s new blog, I had an e-mail exchange with a fellow critic about the value of writing about shows after the fact, on a blog, versus writing about them before the fact, in a traditional review. 30 Rock, at least, is a perfect show for blogging about the [...]

  I feel I should offer something of an apology to BSG fans for my Battlestar Galactica preview in this week’s TIME: there’s probably not a lot in it for you. That is, I discuss the new episode, debuting next Friday, only in very general terms, for two reasons. (1) I usually assume a more general [...]

NBC has announced the roster of this year’s Celebrity Apprentice, which debuts March 1. There are ’90s legends including Andrew Dice Clay, Tom Green and Dennis Rodman. There’s a Kardashian (but not the famous one!). And there are Joan and Melissa Rivers, who actually, by the standards of Donald Trump’s show, are absolute A-listers. (Incidentally, [...]

I very rarely make accurate ratings predictions, so I have to make a big deal of them when I do. And with news that The Mentalist scored nearly 20 million viewers the other night, I can’t help noting that I kinda-sorta pegged it for a hit last fall:  The Mentalist is, in the end, a [...]

We are in one of those weird periods for LDG, because I have seen the first two episodes of season 5 (both of which air Jan. 21). So I have to be extremely careful about posing leading discussion questions, or writing anything else that may inadvertently spoil something for someone, if for no other reason [...]

Brief and only mildly spoilery remarks on the season premiere of Damages after the jump:

Let it never be said that no media organizations are expanding their overseas coverage. A conservative website has hired Real America resident Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher as a war correspondent. Wurzelbacher will reportedly spend ten days in Israel, asking Israeli “Average Joes” to tell their stories as fighting rages in Gaza.  In other news, [...]