My shameless bit of boasting about the season 5 Wire screeners HBO just sent out seems to have struck a nerve. Maybe we need to have a mini Wire Discussion Group to get us limbered up before the series returns on January 6. In the meantime, this HBO preview that gives the slightest taste of the new season, which is going to focus on …
The Morning After: Return to O.Z.
We’re getting into December now, which means less and less original-run watercooler programming to discuss the morning after. And if the strike continues, every month will be like December. It’ll be like nuclear winter, the TV version. The gnarled, dead branches of the networks searching the sky, their …
JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight
Yeah, I’ll say it: I have seven new episodes of The Wire sitting right here.
I’m not going to jump the gun. I’m not going to spoilerize anything. I’m not that big a jerk. I’m just a big enough jerk to say it again, and let it play.
I have seven new episodes of The Wire sitting right here.
You all have a great evening.
The Turner Prize
The people at Tate Britain who bestow the Turner Prize, the U.K.’s annual art award, have given it this week to the artist who produced one of the most highly publicized installation works of the year. From January through August Mark Wallinger filled the Tate’s Duveen Gallery …
Heroes Watch: Out of Our Misery
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, whip yourself up a batch of chilaquiles and watch Heroes.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, so in the spirit of holiday generosity, I will kick things off by finding something nice to say about the volume-two finale of Heroes:
Well, at least it’s over!
I don’t …
Strike Watch: Critics' L.A. Jaunt in Danger; Plus, Could We Get a Summer of Lost?
So we all know that the writers’ strike has shut down some of your favorite shows and that it’s cost the jobs of numerous below-the-line workers in the TV business. (The writers are making a counteroffer as negotiations resume today.) But it may claim a bigger casualty: TV critics may not have an excuse to go to L.A. in the middle of …
The Morning After: Chuck vs. the Strike Delay
…and so the Nerd Herd takes an unscheduled vacation, thanks to the writers’ walkout. It’ll be some time before I catch up with this on TiVo, so feel free to offer your performance evaluation here.
More on Maier
Preserve Educational Choice, the group fighting to prevent Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. from auctioning off paintings from its Maier Museum announced today that it has posted the first half of a one million dollar bond. That was the amount required of them by the Lynchburg Circuit Court while they press their lawsuit to block the …
Beatlemania
If I’m a little late posting today it’s because I got lost surfing around art related sites this morning. I started out looking at this piece on the New York Times website about high resolution digital photos of paintings that are available on line. That article led me to museumlink.com, an aggregator that links you to any museum …
Heroes: Someone! Will! Die! Or Something!
Tonight, as NBC is promo-ing, “two heroes will fall” as “Volume 2: Generations comes to an explosive, bloody finish.” Judging by recent history, I think we can definitely take that as an ironclad promise that two characters will fall, downward, and substantial portions of their body will come in contact with …
NBC: Deadliest Network
The New York Times reports that NBC has struck a deal to acquire a ton of programming from outside producers including Thom Beers. You probably don’t know who Beers is, but you very likely know his shows: he specializes in cable shows about people in extreeeeeeeeem circumstances, like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road …
The Morning After: On a Scale of One to Tin
I panned Tin Man, the Sci Fi Channel adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, in the print TIME magazine this week. But as you know, I write all kinds of asinine crap, so Tuned In’s substantial sci fi contingent may well have disagreed with me. Did you watch the first night? Were you captivated by Kathleen …
Dedicated to the One I Love
The Miami Art Museum unveiled the interim design for its new home today, a “work in progress” model by Herzog & de Meuron that MAM Director Terry Riley says can be expected to evolve over the next year or so in part on the basis of public comment.
Riley has said that he’d like the final design to provide for a few “anchor” galleries …