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Brett Somers has died. She follows Charles Nelson Reilly, who passed away in May; I looked back on Match Game then, and Somers (who debuted on the show doing a guest stint with husband Jack Klugman) was an indispensible, combative part of it. (If I had based my top 100 TV list solely on my personal fond memories, I might have given that …

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There are things you want to do and things you have to do. I want to review K-Ville for the show it could have been–a cop drama that portrays post-Katrina New Orleans by showing the struggle to maintain order. I have to review it for what it actually is: an unimpressive police procedural with a few social and …

The most memorable moment of last night’s Emmy awards was from an acceptance speech we didn’t hear. Or part of one, anyway. Having won best drama actress, Sally Field launched into a passionate, flustered speech about playing a mother and dedicating her performance to mothers in wartime. “If mothers ruled the world,” she said, “there …

7:28 p.m.: I’d like to take this moment to thank Mrs. Tuned In. Not because I’ve won anything, but because she is, as I type, in the midst of putting Tuned In Jr and Tuned In Jr Jr to bed, solo, so that I can “work” by watching a TV show and typing about it. Do not let your children marry TV critics.

7:32 p.m.: Fox’s red-carpet folks …

That’s right. Keep watching it. Keeeeeeeep watchin’. All weekend. Hey! You looked away! I said, keep…

OK, you can look away in a second, but first: if you can manage to balance your margarita and chips atop your laptop, join Tuned In Sunday night for a liveblog of the Emmy awards. I probably won’t cover the red carpet, pre-red-carpet, …

Lara Spencer and Pat O’Brien, neither of whom I actually met. / THE INSIDER

Jessica Simpson will be on The Insider tonight. And so will I–although not in the same room–talking about that top-100 list you wish I would shut up about already. Good thing I decided not to put Access Hollywood on the list. That would have been …

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Mad Men Watch will be slightly delayed today, and this time it really is due to deadlines and fall-screener backlog. (Get used to that excuse. You’ll be hearing it a lot for a few weeks.) In the meantime, I refer you to my column in the brand-new TIME print magazine, about the Kid Nation Kontroversy. You’ve read a …

The TIME presidential candidates’ spouses poll, summarized from an entirely TV-centric perspective:

* Bill and Hillary watch Grey’s Anatomy together. Which demands the follow-up: Team Addison or Team Meredith?

* The Kuciniches do not watch television, just like President Bush. After the campaign, they’ll have to have George and Laura …

You know, it occurs to me that they’re going to be handing out Emmys Sunday night, and I haven’t done any walk-up posts. Bad TV blogger! I could blame magazine deadlines or fall-TV-screener overload (The War is 15 freaking hours! Ken Burns is trying to kill me!), but who would I be kidding? The truth is, I don’t give a crap about the …