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.
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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Why the World Needs a Kickstarter Veronica Mars Movie
If Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell can finance this project, it could expand the creative possibilities of movies and TV alike.
Tuned InTelevision
Spring Break Is Coming: Watch the Parody School of Thrones
The video, which imagines the war for Westeros in a high school, is actually at least half a good idea for an actual TV series.
Tuned InTelevision
Girls Watch: Slick With Sadness
Girls’ second-to-last episode of the season does some uncomfortable emotional digging, in a half-hour that may have had you covering your eyes, or your ears.
Tuned InTelevision
Idol Watch: America’s Next Top Balladeer?
How has Idol managed to make its finalist choices so much less interesting than The Voice’s?
Tuned InTelevision
The Americans Watch: Rides With Strangers
A kidnapping, or “kidnapping,” adds more strain to Elizabeth and Philip’s marriage, or “marriage.”
Tuned InTelevision
History Channel’s Bible Is a Hit. Does That Mean TV Will Get Religion?
We may see more TV for religious believers as a result of The Bible. What I’d love to see–but am not so sure we will–is more TV about religious believers.
Tuned InTelevision
Enlightened Watch: This Beautiful, Upsetting World
Enlightened gives Amy something like a happy ending. But let’s hope it’s not the end.
Tuned InRemembrance
Remembering Bonnie Franklin, One Day at a Time‘s Single-Mom Hero
Mary Richards may have been history’s female sitcom heroine of the ’70s, but for Ann Romano, keeping her family together was itself a feminist act.
Tuned InTelevision
TV Weekend: History Launches Vikings (and an Action-Packed Bible)
Human history is full of people finding creative ways to open up one another’s bodies, and History channel has realized that it’s sitting on vast, untapped reserves of historical bloodletting
Tuned InTelevision
Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem
TV has too much dumb, mindless violence, but also too much smart, mindful violence. And the reasons it’s so exhaustingly bloody have something to do with the reasons much of it is so good.
Tuned InTelevision
On the Importance of Bunheads
ABC Family’s delightful, little-watched dance drama-comedy is the kind of show that TV, for all its newfound ambition, doesn’t have enough room for.
Tuned InTelevision
TV Tonight: Parade’s End
If Downton is a nostalgic champagne toast to the bygone Edwardian aristocracy, HBO’s five-hour miniseries is more of a cold, bitter drink of scotch at its wake.
