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JPTV: Live Q&A with Louis C.K.

By James Poniewozik

Tomorrow night (Wednesday, Nov. 3) I’ll be at the Paley Center in Manhattan, hosting a Q&A session with Louis C.K., star/director/writer/editor/almost-everything-else of FX’s fantastic, idiosyncratic Louie, which may well be my favorite new show of 2010. The session starts at 8:30 p.m. and runs until about 10 p.m.; the program includes a screening of clips, [...]

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Zombie Army: 5.3 Million for Walking Dead Debut

By James Poniewozik

If you’ve been wondering if AMC’s The Walking Dead would get a second season after its six-episode debut one, you can probably relax. The zombie series ate the guts out of all previous AMC ratings records, getting 5.3 million viewers for its first airing alone. (By comparison, Rubicon debuted at around a million, and Mad [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 452 days ago

Sanitized? Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' After Rally

By James Poniewozik

After the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Saturday, Keith Olbermann went on the defensive on Twitter, tweeting that Jon Stewart had “jumped a shark” in behaving as though left and right voices in cable news were equally as guilty for creating a toxic tone in media discourse. (To be fair, Olbermann said it was [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 453 days ago

Talking Dead: What Did You Think of AMC's Walking Dead Premiere?

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for the debut of The Walking Dead coming up: As I wrote in my review and earlier on this blog, I really liked Frank Darabont’s pilot for The Walking Dead; the second episode I liked not nearly as much, but the third episode was in turn an improvement on that. The bottom line is, [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Boardwalk Empire: Season 1, Episode 7 | 453 days ago

Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Persistence of Memory

By James Poniewozik
HBO

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put down that Tom Swift book and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire. Boardwalk Empire is a work of historical fiction, but the past has its own past. And “Home,” the season’s seventh episode, focused on Nucky Thompson and Jimmy Darmody each settling some scores and dealing with old [...]