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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1031 days ago

Lostwatch: Adoptive Parents

By James Poniewozik

    SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab yourself a milk—no, make that a juice box—and watch last night’s episode of Lost. 

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

TV Tonight: Pedro Returns to MTV

By James Poniewozik

Tonight, MTV airs Pedro, its biopic about Pedro Zamora, the Real World season 3 housemate who was afflicted with AIDS and used the limelight—on the show and off it, until his death—to raise awareness of the disease. I never got around to doing a review, but MTV has been enlisting this big guns to promote [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

NBC U, Weinstein Make Project Runway Work

By James Poniewozik

In what I am going to assume is not an April Fool’s joke, NBC Universal just issued a statement announcing a settlement to its lawsuit with The Weinstein Company and Lifetime channel over Project Runway‘s move from Bravo: NBC Universal, The Weinstein Company and Lifetime have resolved their disputes.  The Weinstein Company will pay NBCU [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

Guiding Light to Go Dark

By James Poniewozik

I don’t tend to cover a lot of daytime TV at Tuned In, because, well, there are so many hours in a day and that’s a full-time job in itself. But this is worth note: CBS’s Guiding Light, which began on the network in 1952, is reportedly going off the air in September. Counting its [...]

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Tuned In+TV Ratings | 1032 days ago

CNN: The Third Name in News

By James Poniewozik

The ratings results are in for the first quarter of 2009, and they’re not pretty for CNN, which, after riding high for much of the election year, has fallen to third place in the primetime ratings for the first time. Fox News’ primetime is up 24% on the year, MSNBC up 22% and CNN is [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

Nonprofit Press Release Theater: Peabody Awards Announced

By James Poniewozik

The University of Georgia has announced the annual George Foster Peabody Awards for broadcasting and media. The entertainment-TV winners include Breaking Bad and Lost (well-deserved), Saturday Night Live’s political satire (well-expected) and Entourage (well… wha?). Interestingly, the charges of sleight-of-hand at the Beijing Olympics’ opening ceremony did not prevent them from snaring a Peabody. The [...]

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Tuned In+1032 days ago

Happy Lost Day! How Dead Is Ben?

By James Poniewozik

Maybe it’s a lame choice for a Lost Discussion Group topic, but I don’t see how we move on from last week’s conclusion without asking whether Ben is dead or not. Having said that, there are plenty of subquestions to explore. First—and I have to credit this question to time.com honcho Josh Tyrangiel—is it possible [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

Osbournes: Reloaded—Saddest Comedy Ever?

By James Poniewozik

As the makers of TV variety-show revivals like to tell us, there was once a great tradition in television. That tradition was of big, broad, vaudeville-like stage shows featuring song, dance, comedy, real-people stunts—all the light entertainment wrought by human imagining brought together under one umbrella.  There was another great tradition in television. That tradition [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1032 days ago

Judging American Idol: The Final 9

By James Poniewozik

This week’s American Idol song theme was “popular downloads,” which apparently means “songs, released at some point in the last forty years, that are available somewhere on the Internet.” For reviews of this week’s Idol performances, click on the photos below. Read Last Week’s Review of the American Idol Final 10