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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 624 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: The Meaning of Lost; Plus, Lost in 108 Seconds!

By James Poniewozik

Yeah, so I flew to Hawaii to visit the Lost finale being shot. I know. I have a really lousy life. And I saw a pretty spoilery scene, which I can’t tell you much about. And I did some interviews with the cast members and producers, which I can tell you about. Then I wrote [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 625 days ago

L&O, RIP?

By James Poniewozik

Chung-chung! Is that a body? Reports came in from several news outlets late this afternoon that NBC is canceling the original series of Law & Order after 20 seasons. TV Guide and Deadline.com have said it’s a done deal, and the New York Times’ Brian Stelter tweeted confirmation from a former producer. [Update: Don't consider [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 625 days ago

Arnett Back to Fox as Network Pickups Begin

By James Poniewozik

The big-network upfront schedule presentations are coming up next week, but the pickups of new series, official and reported, are starting to, well, pick up. Fox has reportedly settled on a couple of dramas and three comedies, the latter including Running Wilde, created by Mitch Hurwitz and starring Will Arnett (and costarring Keri Russell). Arnett [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 625 days ago

Lost and Heroes: In Defense of Arrogance

By James Poniewozik

After May 23, Lost will be no more. And judging by the fan reactions to the “Across the Sea” and the waning days of season 6 generally, we’re seeing a lot of restlessness among the fans about how and whether Lost is answering questions, and whether it’s staying true to its vision and characters as [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 625 days ago

The Morning After: Repeat Feline

By James Poniewozik

I’ve been hearing for a while now from fans of Cougar Town that the show has become much better than you would have thought, initially, from seeing the title. Or watching the show. Alan Sepinwall, who’s been a big advocate of the show, recently interviewed Bill Lawrence about the show and the possibility of changing [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 625 days ago

Idol Watch: Fighting the Inevitable

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:

+Movies | 625 days ago

Top 10 Cannes Film Festival Movies

By Richard Corliss
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The prestigious Cannes Film Festival was founded in 1946. TIME’s Richard Corliss reflects on its most noteworthy premieres.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 626 days ago

Glee Watch: Free to Be You and Me

By James Poniewozik

WARNING: Spoilers for last night’s Glee lie ahead. Maybe it’s just that I badly needed a palate-cleanser after a long night of Lost-induced brain-twisting and sleep-denying, but “Laryngitis” was the first episode of Glee since the season break that I found myself enjoying (mostly) without reservation. Because I’m still a bit Lost-addled, I’ll give my [...]

+Uncategorized | 626 days ago

Lostwatch: Original Sin

By Krista Mahr

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, tell your brother not to sit too close to that brightly glowing TV set, and enjoy a nice episode of Lost together.

+Uncategorized | 626 days ago

Idol Watch: At The Movies

By Krista Mahr

Last night, Jamie Foxx made a return appearance to American idol to coach the four remaining singers in — the music of the movies! The songs of the silver screen! Les chansons du cinema! Who was a box-office smash? Who went over like Ishtar? Click on the pix to find out: Read Last Week’s Review [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 627 days ago

Everyone's Complaining About Idol…

By James Poniewozik

…you might as well, too. Tonight, Jamie Foxx mentors the remaining Idols in Music from the Movies, apparently because he was in Ray. Last year he mentored the Idols in Music of The Rat Pack, apparently because he was in Ray. Next year, he’ll mentor contestants in–what?–Music from The Blues Brothers? Ray Charles was in [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 627 days ago

The Morning After: Is He Working for You?

By James Poniewozik

A bit of a largish print deadline this morning, so blogging’s going to be light. But the first thing I’m going to do when I have time, right after all the other first things I’m going to do, is get caught up on the final season of 24 so I can be there for Jack [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 627 days ago

HIMYM Watch: Bang a Gong (Get It On)

By James Poniewozik

As of this writing, the search string “how i met your mother ted douche” returns over 100,000 hits on Google. I’m not sure if I should be surprised that it doesn’t get fewer or more, but I have notice that descriptive and his name used together with increasing regularly on this and other TV sites. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 628 days ago

Lost's Music Man

By James Poniewozik

For a TV show with such a vast, sprawling plot, expansive visuals and everything-but-the-Dharma-sink philosophy, Lost is also distinguished as a show with not much in the way of main-title theme music. (It has more of a theme note, or sound, or something.) But it’s certainly not a show without music, and in this week’s [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 628 days ago

Breaking Bad Watch: Green Light

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad follow. Now we wait. As last week’s episode, “One Minute,” blew up the storyline of the vengeful cousins and threw Walter’s family into crisis, it left us, with him, to go on vigil for Hank in the hospital ICU. (The episode’s title, “I See You,” was both [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 628 days ago

Treme Watch: New Orleans Is Coming Home

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Treme coming up, along with an off-the-menu plate of crawfish. Before Treme debuted, David Simon and Eric Overmyer took pains to say that the show was not going to be The Wire: New Orleans. One way in which it would differ, they said, was its scope. Where The Wire [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 628 days ago

The Morning After: How It's Done

By James Poniewozik

Back when Lorne Michaels decided to get Betty White to co-host Saturday Night Live in response to a Facebook campaign, SNL cast it as a Mother’s Day / women-of-SNL night, with returning cast members including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon, among others. The idea seemed to be to appease the online [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 631 days ago

TV Tonight: FNL Begins Its Instant Replay

By James Poniewozik

The wait is over for those of you without one of those little DirecTV pizzas stuck to your house: the fourth season of Friday Night Lights returns to NBC tonight, and it’s worth the wait. I reviewed the season (based on the first few episodes) back in the fall, and I found that—while you might [...]