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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 619 days ago

American Idol: Judging the Final Three

By James Poniewozik

In their last American Idol performance before the final, the contestants each call their own tune — and sing tunes chosen by the judges. Who will go home with the bronze medal, and who will advance to the final showdown? Click the images below to find out. Read Last Week’s Review of the American Idol [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 619 days ago

Lostwatch: Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept It

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab yourself a nice, cool refreshing cup of water—NOW YOU’RE LIKE ME—and watch last night’s Lost. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how much of Lost its creators planned out long ago, and how much they’ve made up as they went along. Of course, it’s impossible [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 620 days ago

ABC's Upfront: We Want You to Love Us

By James Poniewozik

At the network upfronts, you get a little glimpse of each network’s self-perception, its narrative about its identity. ABC sees itself as the Love Network. There are a lot of things that make up ABC, of course, but the the roll of clips the network played to introduce its upfront were heavy on the love: [...]

+Movies | 620 days ago

Top 10 Iconic Movie Locations

By TIME Staff
Everett

If you film there, they will come. TIME looks at the some of the most famous real-life locations in cinema history.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 620 days ago

Lost Endweek: Cuse and Lindelof Interview, Part Two

By James Poniewozik

This is part two of my interview with Lost producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on April 19. See here for part one. * To shift up a little bit: You stab at a lot of big ideas in the show, free will versus destiny, predetermination, and so on.  And you have over the course [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 620 days ago

The Morning After: Bride and Prejudice

By James Poniewozik

No time for a full-on review of How I Met Your Mother‘s “The Wedding Bride” this morning, but I know some of you have thoughts, so here’s a post to discuss it (or any other Monday-night TV you care to). In short, I thought the intentionally broad movie clips (with Chris Kattan as a movie [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 620 days ago

ABC's Fall Sked: Lots of New Shows for the Post-Lost Era

By James Poniewozik

Everybody’s been paying attention to the rebuilding program over at NBC, but ABC hasn’t had a gangbusters season itself in the overall ratings (beyond finally having success with new comedies). With Lost signing off, Grey’s Anatomy greying and efforts like FlashForward having failed, ABC just announced a fall schedule that fills a lot of holes, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 620 days ago

Fox's Upfront: Playing to Strengths, Hoping for Dino Might

By James Poniewozik

There’s a difference between an upfront presentation by the first-place network and one by an, um, less-than-first-place network. Where NBC kicked off its presentation to advertisers with apologies, Fox kicked off its own with stars. Beginning with the cast of Glee, the network trotted out the stars of its various hits (or would-be hits), including [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

NBC's Upfront: Throwing Everything at the Scheduling Wall

By James Poniewozik

“Just 13 more shows to go,” joked NBC executive Jeff Gaspin, as the network wrapped up introducing around a dozen new shows (depending how you count them) for next season. The network, after The Jay Leno Show, is emphasizing its commitment to quality scripted drama. Or, judging from the clips Gaspin and programming chief Angela [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

Lost Endweek: Cuse and Lindelof Interview, Part One

By James Poniewozik

It’s now less than a week until Lost is no more. For this last week before the Lost weekend—call it the Lost Endweek—I’m going to post some daily transcripts from my on-set interviews with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and some of Lost’s cast members. I visited the set on April 19, and hadn’t seen [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

Survivor Watch: Is The Fault in the Game or in Ourselves?

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for the finale of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

Fox Releases Its Fall Schedule

By James Poniewozik

One more download of fall-schedule news before I leave for NBC’s upfront: Fox has released a 2010-11 schedule, including four new comedies, three dramas and a post-Super Bowl slot for Glee. More thoughts later (maybe after I’ve seen Fox’s upfront this afternoon), but for now, here are excerpts from the announcement:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

NBC Sets Schedule, Benches Parks & Recreation

By James Poniewozik

Attention, TV watchers, advertisers and Hollywood: NBC is determined to prove to you that it is once again dedicated to Quality Television. And it’s going to prove it to you by benching its best comedy. (Its best show, period, excepting Friday Night Lights, which half belongs to DirecTV.) Parks and Recreation will move to midseason [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

Breaking Bad Watch: Learning from the Master

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump: Last night’s episode of Breaking Bad was anchored by three remarkable monologues, by Walt, Jesse and Skyler. Each was styled as a confession of sorts: one true, one containing a lie, and one false, but revealing an uncomfortable truth in the process.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 621 days ago

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

It’s upfronts week in New York, which means I’m going to spend a lot of the next few days going from one network fall-schedule presentation to the next, and posting here as time and actual-interesting-things-to-write-about permit. Many of the new shows have been announced or leaked last week, but there’s still the possibility of news [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 624 days ago

Law & Order Dead, Shall Never Die

By James Poniewozik

It’s official. NBC released a statement saying that Law & Order is finished after 20 years—merely tying and not breaking Gunsmoke’s run as longest-running drama. But Law & Order: SVU is returning, and NBC has picked up the spinoff, Law & Order: L.A., a.k.a. LOLA. (Seriously.) And woe to the NBC employee who notes that [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 624 days ago

Network News: Chuck & V Survive, ABC Adds and Subtracts

By James Poniewozik

Good news, Chuck fans! You don’t need to eat a Subway sandwich to save your show! Good news, V fans! You don’t need to eat whatever disgusting alien food product you would have had to have eaten to save your show! At the rate news is leaking out, officially and un-, about next fall’s schedules, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 624 days ago

Parks and Recreation Watch: The Unkindest Cut

By James Poniewozik

Note: Not doing a Thursday-night-review gallery this week. This is not necessarily a permanent change; I just haven’t watched each show yet and am not sure when I’ll catch up. “The Master Plan” gave us the Parks and Rec debut of Rob Lowe and of Adam Scott from Party Down. If you’re a Party Down [...]