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Supersize Me! Welcome to TIME Entertainment

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Your new TIME Entertainment team. (Artist's conception.)

As you may have noticed, we’ve spruced up the place over the weekend. Welcome to the new TIME Entertainment, in which yours truly at Tuned In is being joined by TIME’s other arts writers to form a kind of critical supergroup. (If Tuned In is the Jeff Lynne of time.com, TIME Entertainment is its Traveling Wilburys.) Among among your new SuperFriends (see the list at left) are movie critics Richard Corliss and Mary Pols, book critic Lev Grossman and music critic Claire Suddath, as well as other TIME staff writers and editors who will be posting here daily.

For regular readers of Tuned In, not much has essentially changed–at least not if you don’t want it to. My Tuned In posts will live on TIME Entertainment–sort of a blog within a site. But there’s also still a separate Tuned In page you can bookmark and you can subscribe to my RSS feed separately. (I’m told the old Tuned In URL will eventually redirect to the new site, but I believe you’ll need to update the RSS feed in your RSS readers. Update: Looks like both the old and new RSS feeds are still working, actually.)

But TIME Entertainment also allows us to do much more TV coverage than I have the time to do individually, including more weekly recaps (starting today with Nate Rawlings on The Walking Dead), which will also each have their own handy landing pages, making it easier to look through the archives, and the new format lets us add more information into the reviews.

The overall advantage of the new site is that there will simply be more—more TV coverage, more arts criticism and more of TIME’s pop-culture coverage under one virtual roof. If you look around, for instance, you’ll find weekly box-office reports, photo galleries, Q&As and enough Top Whatever Lists to spend several lifetimes clicking through.

But the most exciting aspect of all this to me is that you’ll be getting more of the reviews and analyses of my critic colleagues at TIME, not just in the magazine but in a 24/7 outlets here at time.com. So explore around the new place, let us know if there’s anything you’d like us to add or change, and welcome our new neighbors, who are eager to meet the best arts-blog commenters on the Internet.