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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 515 days ago

Catching Up With: Rubicon

By James Poniewozik

Mild spoilers for AMC’s Rubicon coming up: Between Mad Men reviewing, vacation, preparing to go on vacation—and, OK, a debilitating helium-inhalation habit—I haven’t had time to do a regular Rubicon Watch since the show debuted. My favorite episode so far, “The Outsider” (in which Will Travers and Truxton Spangler visit their Federal clients in Washington), [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 515 days ago

DWTS News: Bristol and The Situation, Together Again at Last

By James Poniewozik

Media personalities and future 2032 Presidential ticket Bristol Palin and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino are among the celebrities chosen for the coming edition of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. TIME’s NewsFeed has the complete list, which also includes David Hasselhoff, Florence Henderson and sundry figures accomplished in the worlds of sport, music and being on [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 515 days ago

Talking Mad Men With the Amazing Ryan Twins

By James Poniewozik

OK, they’re not twins, but they are Ryans. Last night, I Skyped it with Ryan McGee of Boob Tube Dude and Mo Ryan—formerly of the Chicago Tribune and as of tomorrow, of AOL TV—to discuss Sunday’s Mad Men, “Waldorf Stories,” and season four in general. The results are above. The podcast is also available here [...]

+Movies | 516 days ago

Top 10 Movie Rereleases

By Gilbert Cruz
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George Lucas isn’t the only filmmaker guilty of giving audiences alternate versions of his movies. TIME takes a look at other cinematic reintroductions.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 516 days ago

Mad Men Watch: I'd Like to Thank the Academy

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, slip out of those uncomfortable clothes and watch last night’s Mad Men. As if aware that viewers would be toggling between Mad Men winning Emmys on NBC and Mad Men earning them on AMC, the drama aired a startlingly timely episode showing us that, if Jon Hamm can’t [...]

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Tuned In+516 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: What Detroit 1-8-7 Owes Detroit

By James Poniewozik

While I was on vacation, TIME ran my column on the controversy over ABC’s new cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 and whether it’s exploiting a city that has it rough enough to begin with. It’s a personal issue for me because of where I was born and raised (not Detroit itself, but the Detroit area); I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 516 days ago

Surprises? Justice? Entertainment? Could This Really Be the Emmys?

By James Poniewozik

The 2010 Emmy awards broadcast was a night of refreshing twists and unexpected surprises, the biggest of which, perhaps, was the 2010 Emmy awards broadcast. Namely, it was a pretty entertaining night of TV, kicked off by an actually amusing musical number (not even involving Neil Patrick Harris, at that!) featuring the cast of Glee, [...]

+Uncategorized | 517 days ago

Emmy Drama: What Will Happen If Conan Wins?

By Steven James Snyder

It might seem unlikely that Conan O’Brien will walk away with an Emmy Sunday night for his short-lived stint atop The Tonight Show, but surely no more unlikely than the fact that he received a nomination in the first place. And if he were to indeed win and hop up on stage to accept his [...]

+Uncategorized | 518 days ago

Mystery Science Theater 2010: Riffer Madness!

By Richard Corliss

The other Thursday, as people walked in early to one of the 500 theaters where the RiffTrax demolition of Reefer Madness was scheduled to play, they found one of those pre-show movie trivia games in progress on-screen. “MOVIE MISTAKES,” one card read. “Furry Vengeance was classified as a movie on the Internet Movie Database.” And: “We [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 519 days ago

Lost Rewatch Week: Who Got What They Deserved?

By James Poniewozik

Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person. Upon learning that Jack was [...]

+Uncategorized | 520 days ago

Fine Art, Via YouTube: The Visual Poetry of 'Words'

By Steven James Snyder

I’m hardly the first to take notice of this (at least 370,000 others have beat me to the punch), but I promise you I am one of the few to actually listen to the radio show before ever seeing this accompanying video. I will explain it all in a moment, but first behold: Possibly the [...]

+Uncategorized | 520 days ago

Guilty Pleasure, 2010: TV Tales of Jaw-Dropping, Terrifying Marriages

By Steven James Snyder

Some television shows – hell, entire television networks – are built around the close-up of the jaw-dropping train wreck. Tales of voyeuristic catharsis, where us viewers can take a collective deep breath and thank the heavens that, no matter how bad things get, at least we don’t have it that bad. I’m talking about the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 520 days ago

Lost Rewatch Week: Answer the Damn Question!

By James Poniewozik

Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person. I’ll keep this one simple: [...]

+Music | 521 days ago

Top 10 Angry Breakup Songs

By Frances Romero
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Cee-Lo Green’s hit “F___ You” is more pleasant than its name suggests. Still, he isn’t happy about a love gone bad. TIME looks at angry tunes about sour relationships.

+TV Networks | 521 days ago

TV Tonight: Is 'Hard Knocks' the Summer's Best Reality TV Show?

By Steven James Snyder

I know Tuned In is usually a place on Wednesdays to read all about Top Chef – a show that I used to be obsessed with. But in recent weeks, as the cooking competition has skewed more extreme and predictable, another show has risen up to dominate not just the 10 p.m. hour on Wednesdays, [...]

+TV Networks | 521 days ago

While We Weren't Looking: Watch Letterman Kick The Leno Feud Back Into High Gear

By Steven James Snyder

Back in January, when the whole Jay Leno Show-Tonight Show controvery was blowing up, David Letterman made something of a short-term fortune in bashing Jay Leno and the suits over at NBC. Well, I missed this yesterday, but Letterman came back from vacation on Monday night, and seems to have rekindled the anger at his [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 521 days ago

Lost Rewatch Week: The Old Men in Charge

By James Poniewozik

Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person. After Desmond descends into the [...]

+TV Networks | 522 days ago

Video: The Rod Blagojevich-Jon Stewart Interview. Truly Haunting TV

By Steven James Snyder

It’s not every day that a disgraced former governor who’s been convicted of lying to the FBI goes on primetime television to chat about the trial. So I tuned in to Monday evening’s The Daily Show for a little good old-fashioned Schadenfreude, as Rod Blagojevich sat down across Jon Stewart to be pummeled and ridiculed. [...]