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Ratings: Sheldon Was Right

Another detail that last night’s Big Bang Theory got right was the overlap in the Venn diagram of Guys Who Own TiVos and Guys Who Watch Sci-Fi. This appears to be borne out in a bit of good ratings news for both Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (on which should-have-been-Echo Summer Glau appears). [...]

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The Morning After: Endless Summer

  I watched The Big Bang Theory for the first time in a long time last night, partly because Mrs. Tuned In was curious, partly because I’ve been reading other reviews that says the show has been on the upswing, partly because I’ll watch Summer Glau in anything.  I will say that the Big Bang [...]

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HIMYM Watch: D Girl

Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump: 

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Big Love Watch: Cat's Out of the Bag

Before you read this post, check that your office safe is securely locked, then watch last night’s Big Love: 

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TV Tonight: Failin' Fillion

  There’s a part of me that wants to just look the other way on ABCs Castle, wish the excellent Nathan Fillion well on finding continued employment and forget that it ever existed. But I suspect other Tuned Inlanders like Fillion as much as I do, and I owe it to them to lower their [...]

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An Hourlong Nightly News. Probably Won't Happen. Should It?

Prominent media insiders–by which I mean “my editors”–are excited this morning over a brief passage in a New York Times article about the success of the NBC news division:  NBC’s surge in the evening has been strong enough for the news division president, Steve Capus, to suggest that NBC is positioned to be the first [...]

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Programming Note

Since I posted on the season 2 debut of Breaking Bad Friday, feel free to use this post to discuss it. Also, this is as good a time as any to discuss a crisis affecting Tuned In: There is just too damn much good TV on the weekends for me to blog it all, without [...]

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The Morning After: Chekhov Is Russian for Karma

Brief spoilers for last night’s The Amazing Race coming up after the jump: 

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BSG Watch: Down With the Ship

Spoilers for Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump: 

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TV Weekend: Re-Breaking Bad

  The first season of Breaking Bad was truncated by the writers’ strike at seven episodes out of a planned ten, though this did not stop Bryan Cranston for winning an Emmy for his portrayal of Walter White, dying chem teacher turned crystal-meth cooker (nor did it keep the season off mine and other year-end [...]

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30 Rock Watch: Cobweb of Rainbows

Brief spoilers for last night’s 30 Rock after the jump:

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Corporate Press Release Theater: Dancing Without the Stars

Jewel and Nancy O’Dell have both withdrawn from the next edition of DWTS, each citing “injuries.” An excerpt from ABC’s statement follows without comment. Because there are just no words: 

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Office Watch: Shoot That Poison Sparrow

The enjoyable thing about an episode like the Valentine’s Day installment (?? — someone monkeyed with the schedule) of The Office is how it allows a moment for nearly everyone from the broad cast. Young, old, single or paired, gay or straight, everyone has relationship issues. And while Michael’s two-ships-that-passed-in-the-blood-drive experience continued the story of [...]

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Idol Watch: Let's Twist Again

Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:

Top 10 Graphic Novels

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Watchmen is one of TIME’s Top 100 Novels. Book critic Lev Grossman picks nine other graphic novels to join it in the pantheon.

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This Showrunner, That Show: Let's Play TV Transplant!

  What’s keeping me from doing more blogging today is working on my review of Kings for the print magazine. Naturally, it made me want to write a blog post. I don’t want to telegraph too much about my review—it’s complicated—but one thing I was thinking as I watched was that I sometimes wished that [...]

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Crash the Nielsens

In the current Lost thread, commenter archstanton68 goes off-topic to make an offer that deserves its own post (if only because I have little time to write posts myself today): OT – I got a Nielsen diary in the mail the other day. anyone have any struggling shows for me to help out in the [...]

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Idol Watch: Let's Get Wild!

Spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump: