+TV Networks | 667 days ago

Meet Ugly Betty: Submit Your Questions For America Ferrera

By Steven James Snyder

For a character known as Ugly Betty, it’s been a pretty beautiful ride for actress America Ferrera. The 25-year-old came to fame (and won a couple awards) for playing Betty Suarez on the hit ABC comedy series that’s been running strong since 2006. But now the show is drawing to a close – the last [...]

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Tuned In+Remembrance | 667 days ago

TV Writer David Mills Dies

By James Poniewozik

David Mills, an Emmy-winning writer and producer who worked on acclaimed shows including NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Corner and The Wire, died yesterday at age 48, of a brain aneurysm. His death comes less than two weeks before his newest series—Treme, co-created by his longtime colleague and friend David Simon—premieres on [...]

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Tuned In+667 days ago

Lostwatch: Desperately Seeking Sun

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, sit down in the room with the big projection screen you used to use for subliminal-messaging experiments and watch last night’s Lost.

+Uncategorized | 668 days ago

American Idol: The Final Ten

By Krista Mahr

It was “soul and R&B night” on Idol last night, which brought Usher on to mentor — and to spend several minutes selling his new album with Ryan Seacrest. Did he work some of that Justin Bieber magic with the final ten? Read Last Week’s Review of the American Idol Final 11 » Click on [...]

+Television | 668 days ago

Top 10 Shows That Overstayed Their Welcome

By TIME Staff
NBC/Photofest

After Fox’s 24 announced its final season TIME took a look at other television series that overstayed their welcome.

+Uncategorized | 668 days ago

Walter White: The Most Fascinating Man on TV?

By Steven James Snyder

I realize I’m a little late here to be commenting on the most recent episode of Breaking Bad, but first I wanted to take a day and mull over a question that’s been rattling around in my head since the series returned for its third season: Is Walter White the most interesting male character currently [...]

+Advertising | 668 days ago

Lost Finale Means Big Answers For Fans – And Big Business For ABC

By Steven James Snyder

In this age of DVR, Hulu and TiVO, live TV events are increasingly rare. But advertisers are betting on the fact that fans of Lost are going to be tuned in live May 23, for the much-anticipated final episode. And when we say betting, we mean betting big. AdAge is reporting that a 30-second commercial [...]

+Uncategorized | 668 days ago

Bad PR Alert: Kate Gosselin Suffers Prime-Time Dancing Meltdown

By Steven James Snyder

Kate Gosselin’s been working hard – very hard – to rehabilitate and purify her public image in the wake of her nasty divorce. There have been magazine cover shoots, sit-downs on The View, and yet none of that may stick with her fans as much as her in-your-face meltdown on last night’s Dancing With the [...]

+TV Networks | 668 days ago

Bring Out The Pitchforks! Stewart, Colbert Slam Party of Incitement

By Steven James Snyder

The party of no has become the party of incitement – or at least that seems to be the consensus of the comedic political watchdogs over at Comedy Central. It was the first night back on the air since the passage of the health care bill for both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, [...]

+Uncategorized | 669 days ago

The Caprica Saga: Finally Adding Some Punch to the Philosophy

By Steven James Snyder

Greetings, Tuned In universe. It is I, Jim’s lowly temporary replacement, schlepped over from Techland to fill the gaps while Poniewozik recharges his brain for Lost’s last lap. I thought I should begin my short-term tenure by posting a quick note on the series I’ve been covering most religiously for Techland – the series that [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 672 days ago

Programming Note, and a Very Special Guest

By James Poniewozik

Guess what, you lucky people: I’m on vacation next week! I’ll be staycationing in Brooklyn, with the Tuned In Jrs. on spring break, so I’ll still be available to review the American Idol performances (because I couldn’t in good conscience inflict that on someone else) and Lost (because, you know, it’s Lost). Robo-James, however, is [...]

+Movies | 672 days ago

Top 10 Time-Travel Movies

By Claire Suddath
Everett

For half a century, time travel has been one of the cinema’s most reliable plot devices. TIME picks the best of the bunch.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 672 days ago

Modern Family Watch: "I Feel Like I Ate the Sun!"

By James Poniewozik

It’s probably too late to be posting on Wednesday’s Modern Family, but I thought I should briefly put up something (1) to say, for the record, that “Starry Night” was one of my favorite episodes yet and (2) to quote Cameron’s line (see clip above), which is still making me laugh out loud two days [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 672 days ago

Report: White House Crashers to Be Punished With National TV Fame

By James Poniewozik

The Daily Beast is reporting that America’s favorite couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, having finagled their way into a White House party and the national headlines last fall, will in fact be regular stars on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., the reality show they were auditioning for when they crashed the news. Isn’t Bravo [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 672 days ago

Thursday Comedies Watch: Whuck?

By James Poniewozik
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Tuned In+672 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Lunch Is a Battlefield

By James Poniewozik

My column in this week’s print TIME looks at Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the Madonna-and-whore complex of American food TV, and the reasons food has become another front in the culture war—and a surrogate, among other things, for the health-care debate. (Glenn Beck, of course, makes an appearance in the column, touting a delicious deep-fried [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 673 days ago

Robert Culp, 1930-2010

By James Poniewozik

Actor Robert Culp died yesterday after a fall at age 79. I’ll leave it to critics of the Baby Boomer era to eulogize his work on the supercool ’60s espionage show I Spy. My more personal memory of him is for his work as Agent Bill Maxwell on the ’70s superhero comedy-drama The Greatest American [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 673 days ago

R.I.P., At the Movies

By James Poniewozik

At the Movies, the TV show that brought Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel and their thumbs to the masses, is being canceled. The series will finish its run in August. It’s a sad moment, at least if you’re a critic, or simply someone whose love for the movies was inspired by Siskel and Ebert and their [...]