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+Uncategorized | 894 days ago

Mad Men Watch: Double Exposure

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put on your raincoat and watch last night’s season 3 premiere of Mad Men.

+Uncategorized | 897 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: What Would Don Draper Do?

By James Poniewozik

If all has gone well, no worldwide catastrophes have occurred and no computers melted down, I have a review of the first three episodes of season 3 of Mad Men in TIME magazine today. It should be on this website. I do not have the link, because I am writing this post in the distant [...]

+Uncategorized | 897 days ago

The Morning After: Robo-Edition

By James Poniewozik

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is a daily post inviting humans to amuse themselves by discussing electromagnetic transmissions they observed the previous night on their television receivers. Discuss! Robo-James commands it!

+Uncategorized | 898 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: What's On Your Fall List? What's Not?

By James Poniewozik

With TV critics’ press tour over and Labor Day around the corner, fall-season hype is kicking into high gear, and the advertising is too. What shows—returning or new—are you most anxious to see return? What returning shows are you probably going to drop this year to make time for the new?

+Uncategorized | 898 days ago

The Morning After: Robo-Edition

By James Poniewozik

+899 days ago

Vacation Special: Spoiler Alert!

By James Poniewozik

I interrupt your dream week with Robo-James to bring you a brief word about Tuned In and spoilers. I’m staying this week with Mom Tuned In, who has no DVR. Which means that last night I watched the season finale of Better Off Ted, with commercials. Like a caveman. One of those ads was for [...]

+Uncategorized | 899 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: What's the Best Era of TV?

By James Poniewozik

This is a perennial knock-down, drag-out TV fight, and yet I don’t think we’ve ever had it here at Tuned In. Well, now it’s time! What was the best era of television, ever? ’50s, ’60s, 70s, today? Golden Age, Cosby Age, HBO Age? I know someone is going to wonder what my pick is, but [...]

+Uncategorized | 899 days ago

The Morning After: Robo-Edition

By James Poniewozik

+Uncategorized | 900 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: Sick TV

By James Poniewozik

As part of his publicity blitz for Funny People, Judd Apatow wrote a blog for MTV that made a spot-on observation about movies on TV: There is nothing worse than making a bad movie and knowing it is going to be broadcast on cable TV for the rest of time. I am actually a fan [...]

+Uncategorized | 900 days ago

The Morning After: Robo-Edition

By James Poniewozik

+901 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: What Does NBC Mean to You?

By James Poniewozik

One thing that has struck me before, and struck me again a few weeks ago when Ben Silverman stepped down from NBC, is how personally TV fans take NBC’s screw-ups—in a way they don’t seem to with any other broadcast network. If CBS puts on a goofy reality show, people will mock; but when NBC [...]

+Uncategorized | 901 days ago

The Morning After: Robo-Edition

By James Poniewozik

+Uncategorized | 904 days ago

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

Next week, I will be researching the television habits of Midwestern female viewers outside the 18-to-49 demographic (a.k.a. “On vacation, visiting my mom”). I have dragged Robo-James out of the broom closet to keep the lights on while I’m gone. (I’ll probably be tweeting, because while my mom’s house doesn’t have Internet, a satellite does [...]

+904 days ago

TCA Roundup: NBC and Fox

By James Poniewozik

In Pasadena, the summer TV critics’ press tour is getting close to wrapping up, and with a vacation looming—yes, that’s Robo-James you hear warming up—this may be the last tour-news roundup I post. A few last tidbits: * Friday Night Lights is returning to NBC, but possibly not until summer—and no Tyra until season 5. [...]

+Uncategorized | 904 days ago

What to Do This Weekend

By James Poniewozik

You could watch Julie & Julia at the movie theater. Or you could go straight to the source. PBS has put an archive of classic Julia Child episodes and clips online, in time for the Meryl Streep movie’s release. Bon appetit. [Update: Deleted embedded video, which wasn't behaving. Julia taught us to roll with it [...]

+904 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Top Tips for Top Chefs

By James Poniewozik

It’s a list! It’s an article! It’s a listicle! Today in the print TIME, in anticipation of the new season of Top Chef beginning later this month, I have a list of dos and don’ts for Top Chef contestants. (Also, I want to swear here and now that I came up with my theory that [...]

+Uncategorized | 904 days ago

The Morning After: In Which My TiVo Dies, Yet Again

By James Poniewozik

What did you watch on TV last night? I watched my TiVo die on me, before my eyes! Again! It was riveting! If you’re a follower of this blog, you know that I have a love-hate relationship with TiVo. Love it when it’s working. Hate it when it’s not. Which is too often. This makes [...]

+Television | 904 days ago