Tonight Sundance debuts Elvis Costello’s interview series, Spectacle. (Actually, the somewhat ungainly Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…) I reviewed it briefly in the print Time thus:

It’s not just the glasses–Elvis Costello really is that smart. On this Sundance Channel Q&A series, the singer, showman and wit talks pop-music history

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Apropos ABC’s remake of Cupid, joethefinancier writes:

On one hand, I’m glad that Cupid is getting a second chance, on the other hand, I’m almost positive that this version is going to be the Knightrider remake all over again. Bobby Cannavale is NO Jeremy Piven, and I will have to reserve my opinion on Sarah Paulson, but Paula Marshall

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We might as well declare today Midseason Day, what with the announcements from ABC, CBS (which I’ll post shortly) and, here, The CW, which is bringing back Reaper in March and debuting reality series 13—Fear Is Real, in which “13 people compete to ‘stay alive’ while facing their deepest fears in an all-out elimination competition and …

Last night, my replacement TiVo box / cable box / lifeline to the outside world arrived. This morning I commenced setting it up, a process that has so far involved several calls to TiVo tech support, being instructed by one tech support guy to undo all the steps I was instructed to take by the previous support guy, and, in the process, …

ABC announced some as-long-as-there’s-please-God-no-SAG-strike midseason premiere dates yesterday. Among the highlights: The remake of Rob Thomas’ Cupid, which was a highly praised flameout with Jeremy Piven in the 1998-99 season; Castle, in which Nathan Fillion is a mystery novelist who solves crimes (imagined scene at pitch meeting: …

Via Maureen Ryan’s The Watcher blog (and in turn via a couple other sources) comes word that Sci Fi has officially greenlighted the BSG prequel, Caprica. Galactica fans may proceed to jubilate, or worry, as is their preference. The new series—a clash between powerful families, set before the Cylon attack—seems sufficiently different …

What is this “television” you speak of? Having gone four days now with my TiVo / HD cable box on the fritz, I feel like a new man! I have entered the post-television age! I’ve streamed my news online. I’ve watched Stephen Colbert, from his pre-liberal-icon days, in Strangers with Candy reruns on my iPhone, via Joost. And I had a better …

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruno Heller, creator of HBO’s Rome (and now The Mentalist) wants to cap off the prematurely cancelled show with a final movie.

Necessary? Desired? I’d rather see the Deadwood movies, but no one’s putting that option on the table. Rome, on the other hand, did achieve closure after its own fashion. …

How did the people at Joost know that today was both iPhone App Day and My TiVo Is Dead Day at Tuned In? However they managed it, it was today that the online-video site launched an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. That Survivor episode that perished with my TiVo? They got me covered. (Unfortunately, it was a ripoff/clip episode. But …

So what does a TV critic do when his TiVo dies and takes the television with it? Well, as mentioned, I went on an iPhone app shopping spree. The simplest and most addictive program I picked up is Smule’s Ocarina, which turns the iPhone into a wind instrument.

By blowing into the microphone and opening and closing four “holes” on the …

My Series 3 TiVo passed away the day after Thanksgiving. This is becoming something of a regular occurrence at the Tuned In household. Since I first bought the machine less than two years ago, we’ve had recurrent hardware malfunctions, resulting in numerous, marathon customer-service ordeals and (so far) two replacement units being sent …