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The Morning After: Turn This Mothership Out

By James Poniewozik

Watching the abbreviated launch of V is a strange experience: the show will air only four episodes (one more is left) before vanishing to reappear in midseason, and when it returns, it will have a new showrunner, so it’s anyone’s guess how the series will be retooled. It’s less like a TV series than notes [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 801 days ago

Sons of Anarchy Watch: Getting the Gang Back Together

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:  

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 802 days ago

The Morning After: Tell Me the Truth, Now

By James Poniewozik

When Lie to Me debuted last season, I was impressed not just with Tim Roth’s performance but with the show’s procedural efficiency, its blend of science and story, and, above all, its whole-hearted embrace of its essentially cynical (and I don’t mean that as an insult) premise: everyone, or nearly everyone, lies. That said, it [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 802 days ago

HIMYM Watch: Fly Me to the Smoon

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 803 days ago

Palin on Oprah: Can You See the Real Me?

By James Poniewozik

If you didn’t like Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, she has a message for you: it was really the McCain campaign PR staff that you didn’t like. The real Sarah, you like just fine! Sitting down with Oprah Winfrey, Palin took up much of her interview blaming her performance in 2008 on–besides the media, [...]

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Top 10 Political Memoirs

By TIME Staff
Political Memoirs

While George W. Bush's new memoir Decision Points doesn't hit bookshelves until Nov. 9, it has already managed to make waves. TIME takes a look at other memorable political autobiographies

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 803 days ago

Palin Was Against SNL Before She Was For It

By James Poniewozik

As we get ready for Sarah Palin’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m. here in NYC), Oprah.com has posted some outtakes from the interviews. It includes her thoughts on Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live’s treatment of her; the McCain campaign, she says, resisted letting her go on SNL, for fear the appearance would be [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 803 days ago

Curb Watch: Seinfeld 2.0

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for Curb Your Enthusiasm after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 803 days ago

The Morning After: Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other

By James Poniewozik

  I said my piece on the AMC “reimagining” of The Prisoner last week, so I don’t plan on doing any nightly blow-by-blow. But if you stuck around to watch it, let us know what you thought—and whether you saw the original. (Not that that should matter—the new version, I think, should be judged on [...]

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Tuned In+806 days ago

Your Weekend Homework: When Did the 2000s Happen?

By James Poniewozik

Among the year-end business I’m working on right now is a list of the top TV shows of the last decade. In some ways it’s actually easier than my year-end top-ten list, because it’s really the creme de la creme—if a show doesn’t immediately come to mind, it probably shouldn’t be on the list. But [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 806 days ago

Should Lou Dobbs Run for President?

By James Poniewozik

Well, “should” rarely enters into the decision, I realize. But among the theories propounded by Dobbs’ resignation from CNN—and prompted by his vague reference to seeking “options” in the public sphere—is that he’s considering running for office. Salon’s Joe Conason thinks he may be thinking of running for The Big One. So when I say [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 806 days ago

"It Wasn't a Good Interview": Palin on Oprah on Couric

By James Poniewozik

The great Sarah Palin Rollout has arrived. The former V.P. candidate’s book Going Rogue comes out on Tuesday, she appears on the Oprah Winfrey show on Monday, and CBS News is teasing the interview with a clip that just happens to implicitly flatter its own anchor: Reports from an advance leak of Going Rogue say [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 806 days ago

The Morning After: Flash News

By James Poniewozik

Acting on the advice of a commenter here a while ago, I am committing to the practice of saving myself time and simply watching the last five minutes of any given FlashForward, at least until and if the series shows some improvement. Thus it’s not really fair for me to review the show per se, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 806 days ago

NBC Sitcoms Watch: Four on the Floor

By James Poniewozik

As much as we all like to beat on NBC lately, its Thursday comedy lineup is—whatever weekly ups and downs it has—the most consistently solid sitcom block it’s had in years, if not ever, without a single Stark Raving Mad-like filler show in the bunch. That leaves a so-much-to-cover-so-little-time problem, though, so this week, I’m [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: The Prisoner

By James Poniewozik

  In this week’s print TIME, I review The Prisoner, which I found pretty to look at, but pretentious and incoherent. Which, since you’re probably going to ask, is not how I would describe the 1967 original, for all its surreality. Some of the problems with the new version stem from the way it tries [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 807 days ago

HBO Prepares Pacific Invasion

By James Poniewozik

When I want to take a break and drive myself crazy, I look over my year-end best-TV-list candidates and try to whittle them down to 10. I didn’t realize until this year—with a surfeit of shows that could arguably land in a top 10—what a blessing the writers’ strike of 2008 was. And next year [...]

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Cable-News News: King Moves Up, Hannity Owns Up

By James Poniewozik

That was quick: Less than 24 hours after Lou Dobbs abruptly left the air, CNN has announced he’ll be replaced by magic-wall-wrangler John King, hosting a daily political program. King’s show begins early next year. Thereby ensuring that the network’s 7 p.m. hour will not have to deal with future Dobbs-like controversies, or, most likely, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 807 days ago

Glee Watch: Four Wheels Good

By James Poniewozik

  Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump: