Kath and Kim seems to be on its way to being the second-worst-reviewed new show next to Knight Rider (you go, Ben Silverman!), so I feel like I should say the one good thing about it that I neglected to mention in my review—they picked an awesome theme song:

There’s not much to add to that. Weep with me, mankind.

*That is, “than are watching the television program Pushing Daisies.” Not “than are pushing daisies.” The legions of history’s dead fortunately still vastly outnumber Knight Rider’s anemic 2.2 rating. Also, I suspect there’s considerable overlap between those two groups.

Tonight sees the debuts of the American adaptions of Life on Mars, Eleventh Hour, and Kath and Kim, which are from Britain, Britain and Australia respectively and are surprisingly good, a bunch of hoo-hah and painful, respectively. Busy with a print deadline, so I’ll refer you to my earlier roundup review of this season’s imports to …

How bad has the financial crisis gotten? Today’s Dr. Phil devotes itself to the economy, with a roster of guests including CNBC’s James Cramer and economist/game-show-host Ben Stein.

To be fair, it’s not as if Dr. Phil just discovered personal finance. He, along with daytime-TV fixtures like Suze Orman, have long been giving viewers …

Brief spoilers for Project Runway coming up after the jump:

The numbers are in for last night’s debate and the winner is… still Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. John McCain and Barack Obama drew over 63 million viewers last night, according to Nielsen, but that was still under the nearly 70 million pairs of eyeballs attracted by their running mates Thursday night. (All three debates outdrew the 46.7 …

Though Tuned In has upped its politics-and-news content as the election gets closer, I haven’t covered campaign ads much. That’s partly because we have the rest of the political blog world for that, but also because I hardly ever see campaign ads, except online and on cable news. As a TV critic with Tivo and screeners, I don’t see many …

It’s a double shot of offensive/scatological comedy tonight. On Comedy Central, The Sarah Silverman Program returns for the second half of its second season, with an outstanding episode in which Sarah gets high and discovers that it makes her a genius. At least for as long as the buzz lasts. I don’t have a clip, but here’s a season …

Not that surprising, but too bad, anyway: Michael Ausiello reports that FX has cancelled The Riches. I’ll admit the show was uneven and didn’t live up to its potential, but that potential was pretty great, and when the series was on, Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were fantastic. Its premise, of people trying to flim-flam their way to …

Thanks to all the Tuned Inlanders who showed up to represent at the liveblog last night; the whole thing is still posted if anyone’s interested. As I said last night, the debate played like a nonevent from where I was sitting; but as I also said, it’s possible it came across more informative and useful to the voters it was actually …

There’s been a lot of talk in the political press about how the townhall format makes it difficult to launch negative and personal attacks.

Therefore, I am expecting negative and personal attacks.

Your predictions?

Update: Remember to visit the debate liveblog tonight. I’m not doing this for my health!

Tonight, Bravo expands its people-who-are-richer-than-you empire with The Real Housewives of Atlanta (9 p.m. E.T.).

From my casual viewing of the first episode, you will probably have roughly the same use for it that you do for the Orange County and New York City versions, the differences being (1) you can play a drinking game …