Up on time.com today, and in the issue on newsstands tomorrow, is a package on The 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis. (25, thanks to Facebook, now being the default number for lists of things.)  I didn’t work on writing the list, but there are nominees notorious and obscure from many fields. But [...]

…slipped again last night, as James Hibberd reports.  The reason this may be good news? The drop was only 6%—and it was facing the second hour of American Idol.

Nielsen reports some figures this morning on the most popular TV shows streamed online from network websites. In December, the ratings company says, Grey’s Anatomy was the third-most streamed show, with 879,000 unique viewers. Maybe a bit surprising, since Grey’s does not get online buzz in proportion to its network ratings, but it’s a big [...]

Before you read this post, go deep, deep underground and watch last night’s Lost. 

…and while I’m out, feel free to engage in wild speculation about tonight’s Lost, about which I know next to nothing. Here’s the next to nothing that I know, from ABC’s press release:  LOCKE TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF TO PUT AN END TO THE ISLAND’S  VIOLENT SHIFTS THROUGH TIME, ON ABC’S “LOST” “This Place is [...]

Going to be out for much of the day shooting a video for time.com. Not, fortunately, a music video. In the meantime, chew on this:  * Showtime announced a second season for United States of Tara yesterday.  * Amy Poehler’s Parks and Recreation—for some weird reason my favorite title for a new show in a [...]

New York Comic Con—a smaller version of the behemoth held in San Diego in summer—was held last weekend, and I attended for the first time. I went just for a day, with the rest of the Tuned In family (the Tuned In Jrs. got into a packed-to-the-rafters lecture by the author of Diary of a [...]

Brief spoilers about Sunday’s Big Love coming up after the jump:

Many of our Monday-night staples were pre-empted by the press conference, but Heroes returned for week two of its new installment. The show is farther down my TiVo-and-watch-later list, but your comments welcomed on it, or any other parts of last night’s attenuated primetime.

Last night, President Barack Obama took questions from the press on national television to argue for his decision to pre-empt Chuck push for a massive economic stimulus package. A few impressions: 

Jerry Springer threw a nation into chaos last week with the announcement that he will no longer be hosting America’s Got Talent. (In related news, Jerry Springer was host of America’s Got Talent.) But the power vacuum has been filled, by none other than former Nickelodeon star / Mariah Carey-marrier Nick Cannon. Quotes from the [...]

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been writing an essay about online and mobile TV for the print TIME magazine, and somewhere in there I reiterate the point I’ve made here before about Saturday Night Live: that it’s essentially become an online-video platform, since having other people find and embed the best bits eliminates the [...]

First things first: I was going to add an explanation here mentioning that other deadlines would be keeping this and other posts delayed/shorter, but let’s just make a deal and agree that, if you’re expecting a post by me and it isn’t here, I’m aware of it and have a lame excuse. Deal? (Also, as [...]

I am either too old or—judging by Robert Plant’s win with Alison Krauss—too young for the Grammys. Either way, I watched little of the awards except to see Katy Perry’s weird staggering around on stage for about two minutes. But my colleagues Josh Tyrangiel has watched and graded the performances so that you, and more [...]