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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 843 days ago

The Mountain Goats Ascend Mt. Colbert

By James Poniewozik

There was a collision at the intersection of Funny and Awesome last night as The Colbert Report hosted John Darnielle and his band The Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s music can be haunting, disturbing and beautiful, but the last thing I’d expect it to be is topical. And yet the band’s new album, The Life of the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 843 days ago

The Morning After: Fallen Stars

By James Poniewozik

It was widely reported enough yesterday that I doubt it qualifies as a Dancing with the Stars spoiler, but avert your eyes if you want to avoid them anyway: Tom DeLay ended his Cinderella bid for the DWTS crown yesterday, citing injured feet. (Another contestant was eliminated, but I’ll skip that spoiler here.) You know [...]

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Tuned In+844 days ago

Your Town, Too, Can Host a Bravo Show

By James Poniewozik

This morning’s e-mail brings the unsurprising word that Bravo is expanding its Real Housewives franchise, picking up its previously announced Real Housewives of D.C. for a full series order, as well as a second season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. In other Bravo news, the network officially announced there will be a seventh [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 844 days ago

From the Comments: The Definitive Word on The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

By James Poniewozik

One thing I love about blogging, and my commenters, is that every once in a while a new and amazing comment will straggle in on a post I put up long ago. Over my last vacation, I posted an obscure, little-read remembrance of an obscure, little-watched kids’ show from the 1970s: The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 844 days ago

HIMYM Watch: The Professor of Desire

By James Poniewozik

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

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 845 days ago

Letterman's Mea Culpa, Take Two [Updated]

By James Poniewozik

After having said he wouldn’t have much more to say about his sextortion case and his relationships with women on his staff, at tonight’s taping, David Letterman did say more, including offering an apology to his wife and his staff members. Here’s a preview excerpt (from CBS, which took down YouTube video of Dave’s original [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 845 days ago

Letterman, the Monday After: You Still Watching (If You Ever Did)?

By James Poniewozik

Today, David Letterman tapes his first Late Show since his revelation, prompted by an extortion attempt, that he’d had sexual relationships with female employees over the years. The post I put up the morning after that drew plenty of opinions about Dave’s behavior. What I’m curious about, though, after the news has had a weekend [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 845 days ago

The Morning After: Sein, Sealed, Delivered

By James Poniewozik

It’s days like this when the universe proves it has a sense of timing: within 24 hours, not only did Don Imus debut a TV show in the aftermath of a racial scandal, but Michael Richards returned to TV in the aftermath of his racial scandal. (If you’re David Letterman, by the way, are these [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 845 days ago

Imus Debuts on Fox Business; Talks TIME, Drinking With Beck

By James Poniewozik

Fans of cowboy-hatted angry scarecrows doing radio shows on TV had reason to rejoice this morning, as Don Imus returned to the air on Fox Business Network, after having left MSNBC following his “nappy-headed hos” scandal. (In the meantime, his show was carried for a period on RFD-TV.) I’m not among those fans, so I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 845 days ago

Mad Men Watch: First Kisses

By James Poniewozik

Spoiler alert: Before you read this post, call down to room service, order anything you like, then watch last night’s Mad Men.

+Television | 848 days ago

Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes

By Gilbert Cruz
Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes

“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.” Those words kicked off one of the most storied TV shows of all time, The Twilight Zone. TIME takes a look at some of its most memorable episodes

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 848 days ago

Something Completely Different: Reviewing Starbucks' Instant Brew

By James Poniewozik

You may be unaware that I have a double life as the coffee critic of Time.com. You are probably unaware of this because my credentials consist of one review of Starbucks’ Pike Place blend. Well, today, I have doubled my professional output, with a review of Starbucks’ new instant coffee, Via, which was surprisingly un-bad, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 848 days ago

The Morning After: Second Flash

By James Poniewozik

Still working my way through my Thursday-night TV backlog, with a thing or two else on my plate, so I’ll open the floor to your thoughts on the second FlashForward and/or the second Fringe of the season. As I mentioned last week, FlashForward intrigued me, but I didn’t actually like its writing or characters enough [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 848 days ago

Office Watch: Double Your Displeasure

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Office (and, briefly, Parks and Recreation and Community) after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 848 days ago

And the #1 Reason Not to Sleep With Your Employees Is…

By James Poniewozik

A major celebrity sleeps with women who works for him, is caught, is hit up for extortion money, goes to the cops and ends up having to make a public confession on national TV—sounds like great material for Letterman! Unfortunately for David Letterman, it was, as the talk-show host turned the story of a bizarre [...]

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Tuned In+848 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Comedy Comes Back

By James Poniewozik

Sunday night, the Seinfeld-reunion arc starts on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and to greet it, I have an essay in the print TIME about the state of TV comedy 11 years later—which surprisingly, for once in a long while, is pretty good. For once in a long time, most of the best new series this year [...]

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Tuned In+849 days ago

P.I.s and TKOs for FX

By James Poniewozik

With Jay Leno on five nights a week, somebody has to make dramas at 10 p.m., and increasingly that somebody is FX. Having already ordered the promising-looking Lawman for next year, the network adds to is stable of largely testosteron-ey dramas with two more drama orders for 2010. Terriers stars Donal Logue (pictured) as an [...]

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Tuned In+849 days ago

TLC, Jon's Breakup Getting Uglier

By James Poniewozik

Shortly after TLC announced that it was writing him out of the title of what is now Kate Plus 8, Jon Gosselin is striking back against the network. First he announced that he want to put the brakes on his divorce from wife Kate; though it may not be conducive to a reconciliation that, according [...]