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It’s Official: Fallon In, Leno Out at a Diminished Tonight Show
Leno is still number one in his time slot. But when he leaves Tonight, he’ll leave an institution smaller and less relevant than when he found it.
James Poniewozik
James Poniewozik writes TIME magazine's Tuned In column, about pop culture and society. Tuned In, the blog version, is about the stuff we used to call "TV," whether it's in your living room, on your computer or - once the networks figure out the technology and line up the advertisers - in your dreams themselves.
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Justified Watch: We Have Met the A-Hole, and He Is Us
There was no Big Bad in season four, but that freed Justified to explore the bigness of the badness within its regular cast of characters.
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Game of Thrones Watch: Freedom’s Just Another Word
The premiere highlighted what I hope will be a big theme of season three: freedom, as an absolute, as a relative term, as an ideal and as a liability. Also, giants!
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Programming Note
Though no one seems to have informed the Greenland high-pressure block about this, it is spring, which means spring break for the Tuned In Jrs., which means that I’m going to be on vacation for the next week and a half.
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Jaypocalypse 2: This Time It’s Different?
This time, NBC wants to ditch Leno for Jimmy Fallon, not Conan O’Brien. What could go wrong?
Tuned InTV Ratings
Agents of Channel Change: HBO Cancels Enlightened
Fans got some closure and two gorgeous seasons. HBO has its reputation as the network who makes one-of-a-kind shows–but within limits.
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Justified Watch: All Talk, All Action
The beauty of an episode like “Decoy” is the free-wheeling joy that Justified takes in letting its characters spend their words like newly minted lottery winners.
Tuned InReview
Devil in the Details: The Real Problem With History Channel’s Satan
The Bible never specifies what Satan looks like. Why give him dark skin and a Sith Lord’s hood?
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Girls Watch: You Call That a Happy Ending?
Intentionally or not, the season finale pulled off a neat trick, giving us a romantic-comedy finish that had me yelling at Adam to run in the other direction.
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TV Tonight: Bates Motel
The first mystery that arises in Bates Motel–the psycho quasi-prequel from producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin–is: what kind of series is this?
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Back to the Land: NBC’s The Farm Spinoff Failed, But Networks Shouldn’t Abandon the Country
We should all be glad that the Dwight-based spinoff of The Office will not be a series. And yet, as Duck Dynasty has taught us, there’s a real opening for comedy outside NBC’s urban comfort zone.
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Dead Tree Alert: Wed Menace; or, the Marital Politics of The Americans
FX’s Cold War drama has the action of a thriller like Homeland, but the melancholy and ambiguous shadings of a character study like Mad Men.
Tuned InMedia
The Papal Announcement: For a Day, (Very) Old Media Triumph
In an age of digital news and instant leaks, the suspense and awe of the announcement showed the power of analog media. Like chimneys.
