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Tuned In+Music | 393 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: Happy New Year

By James Poniewozik

OK, New Year’s Day is actually tomorrow. I am posting this nonetheless because: * It is New Year’s Eve, and why are you on the Internet at all but to blow a few minutes on a diverting music video from the ’80s * I am old, and this U2 video reminds me of a time [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 394 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: TV to Look Forward to in 2011

By James Poniewozik

Having spent a lot of time this past couple of weeks looking back on 2010 here, it’s time to look forward. TV doesn’t have the same kind of lead time that, say, movies do: this time last year, we did not know what the broadcast fall schedules would be, or that Conan O’Brien would end [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 395 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: The TV Stories of the Year

By James Poniewozik

We’ve covered the best and the worst of TV in 2010: now for the biggest. After the jump, a selected list of some of the stories that shaped TV (and by which TV shaped the culture) in 2010, and your invitation to suggest more:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 396 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: Things That Were Not TV in 2010

By James Poniewozik

You may not believe it to read this blog, but I do other things besides watch TV and write about it. (Eat and sleep, for instance!) And Tuned In’s readers, I know, are diverse and catholic in their interests too. So I’m throwing open this discussion robo-post for you to talk about your favorite works [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 397 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: In Which I Surrender To the iPad

By James Poniewozik

When the iPad was first announced early this year, I wrote a post explaining why, media junkie and Apple acolyte that I am, I was not running out yet to buy one. If you had “eight months” in your betting pool as to how long it would take me to finally cave, you win. I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 400 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: Cindy-Lou Who, Meet Doctor Who

By James Poniewozik

In retrospect, it’s surprising the idea wasn’t done earlier: if you want someone to deliver a Christmas Past, Present and Future, you could do worse than Doctor Who. Tomorrow (Christmas Day) at 9 p.m. E.T., BBC America debuts Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, a stand-alone update of the Dickens classic co-starring Michael Gambon. (The special [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 401 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: Great Performances of 2010

By James Poniewozik

A 1920s gangster, a football coach (and maybe not the one you’re thinking of), a therapy patient in a strange land. Like my list of great TV quotes from 2010, this one is incomplete in the extreme. But think of it as a starting point for discussion, and in the comments, let the rest of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 402 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: TV Quotes of the Year, 2010

By James Poniewozik

This time at the end of every year, critics put together our lists: best episodes, best shows, worst shows. But when the year is done, it’s the little moments that stick with you: the small scenes, and the perfect lines. After the jump, here are a few of my favorite quotes from the last year [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 403 days ago

The Morning After: Perfect Pitch, Im-Perfect Couples

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off—and brief thoughts on the preview of NBC’s Perfect Couples—coming up:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 403 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: The 2010 Cincy Awards

By James Poniewozik

Last year around this time, I invented a new kind of TV award, or perhaps “award.” Like a lot of critics, I always list the best shows of the year, and the worst. But that inevitably leaves out a certain, often more interesting, group of shows: not mediocre ones, but shows that have ambitions that, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 404 days ago

Vacation Robo-Post: The 10 Worst TV Shows of 2010

By James Poniewozik

At the end of the year, we all take a moment to celebrate that which has been greatest and most uplifting in human endeavor. Then we get bored of all that feel-good crap, and it’s time to bash things. Tuned Inlanders, hoist a tomato with me and toast the Worst TV Shows of 2010! I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 407 days ago

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

It’s December, and you know what that means: from now through the New Year, it’s time for you to get a well-deserved break from having to read my posts so frequently! But you’re not getting off that easily. While I’ll be on vacation, I’ll probably post occasionally from the road over the next couple of [...]

+Video Games | 407 days ago

Top 10 Arcade Games

By TIME Staff
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From defending the world from invaders of the third kind to trying race down that road, arcade games have had their place in entertainment history and in our hearts

+Movies | 407 days ago

Top 10 Movie Sequels Better than the Originals

By TIME Staff
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Movie sequels generally get a bad rap. Still, we at TIME were able to find the rare follow-ups that bested their predecessors.

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Tuned In+News Media | 407 days ago

Marilu Henner Remembers Everything

By James Poniewozik

I get press releases asking me to embed clips of news reports all the time, and I usually hit delete. But this is bizarre, insane and awesome. According to a report to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, there are six people known to science to have Superior Autobiographical Memory, which means that they can recall [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 407 days ago

Never Forget: Jon Stewart Keeps Responding to First Responders

By James Poniewozik

9/11 was a tragedy that happened to the entire nation, and in its larger ramifications, to the world. But New Yorkers also felt it, and still feel it, on a personal level: not just the fear, the terrible sights and the awful memories (the rest of America watched 9/11; we smelled it), but also the [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 407 days ago

Larry King Steps Away From the Big Microphone

By James Poniewozik

Even on his last show, with a gang of stars and Larry King Live regulars turned out to send him off, Larry King seemed to have an easier time talking about other people than talking about himself. Receiving tribute from former President Bill Clinton, he turned the conversation toward Clinton’s stint behind the White House [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 408 days ago

You're a Good Man, Beethoven

By James Poniewozik

While there are still a few hours left to celebrate Beethoven’s 240th birthday, here’s an uncharacteristically arty (for Peanuts) but gorgeous scene from A Boy Named Charlie Brown. And yet they never put Beethoven on any bubble gum cards!