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Tuned In+News Media | 513 days ago

The Discovery Gunman: TV as the Enemy, and as the Weapon

By James Poniewozik

James Lee, a 43-year-old man with a long history of grudges against Discovery’s networks and their programming, was shot and killed by police yesterday after he entered Discovery Communications headquarters with a gun and explosives and took hostages. None of the hostages were harmed. Lee left behind a manifesto that collected a grab-bag of screeds [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 514 days ago

Fixing Emmy, Part 2: The Case Against Comedy and Drama

By James Poniewozik

Earlier this morning I posted about the broadcast networks’ hopes to solve the problem of their not winning enough Emmys, by any means short of actually making better shows. (Let’s not get crazy here!) Now let’s take a minute to look at an Emmy problem that actually might need fixing. Namely: does it still do [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 514 days ago

The Morning After: Colonial Reenactment

By James Poniewozik

Last year, I wrote one of the first reviews of Discovery’s post-apocalyptic reality show The Colony. That meant my post got indexed highly in whatever system search engines use to index articles, so a year later, you’re still likely to come up with it when you search on “The Colony reviews.” And that in turn [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 514 days ago

Spoiler Alert! Conan Announces Shocking Name of His New Show

By James Poniewozik

Ladies and gentlemen, this November, Conan O’Brien is… Conan! Or “Conaw,” depending how you prefer to pronounce it. The show-title announcement is neither earth-shattering nor a surprise, I guess, but with two months to build hype for the show, and no Emmy win for Tonight to generate a new burst of publicity, we Coco-obsessed media [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 514 days ago

Should Broadcasters Make Emmy Cut the Cable?

By James Poniewozik

The Emmy Awards are over, but as always, the complaining about them isn’t. This year, however, the gripes are not coming from critics—who mostly found it in our two-sizes-too-small hearts to enjoy this year’s Emmycast—but from the major broadcast networks who televise them. Their beefs are various, but they simplify to: we’re not winning enough [...]