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Tuned In+Tuned In | 147 days ago

JPTV Jr.: 104 Days of Summer

By James Poniewozik

One of the most popular kids’ shows in this country today begins by giving its audience a cruel musical taunt. “There’s 104 days of summer vacation,” opens the lyric of Phineas and Ferb, Disney’s cartoon about the outlandish adventures of two stepbrothers, their family, their friends and their platypus, Perry, who unbeknownst to them is [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 147 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Time of the Season

By James Poniewozik

For Labor Day weekend, this week’s TIME magazine includes our summer fall Arts preview. (Usual caveat: you need to subscribe to read the whole thing.) Because television must share space in it with the lesser arts, such as film, visual art and books, the TV section gets only a page in the magazine, and includes [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 148 days ago

What’s Next for AMC: Reality, Kevin Smith, 30 More Minutes of Zombies

By James Poniewozik

If you missed it the other day, New York magazine’s Joe Adalian had an excellent analysis of what’s behind the recent business and p.r. problems at AMC. It’s worth reading in full, but one major point in brief: all those times you wondered how in the world they could afford to produce HBO-type shows on [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 148 days ago

TVGuide.com Says You’re Excited About These Shows. Is It Right?

By James Poniewozik
NBC

TVGuide.com has put out its list of the most anticipated new fall TV shows of 2011, according to a survey of its users. The first three are unsurprising, unsurprising and—yeah, I guess a little surprising. At #1: Terra Nova, of course. Because dinosaurs. At #2: Ringer, of course. Because Sarah Michelle Gellar. (TVGuide.com is a [...]