The newly redesigned print version of TIME magazine includes a newly redesigned version of my column, complete with an author photo, which is mercifully smaller than the one you’re forced to look at on this blog.

The first installment of the new-style Culture Complex looks at a theme I first sounded out here at Tuned In: the shift in …

Tonight on NBC, we say a brief see-you-later to 30 Rock (which, with every episode, I regret a little more not putting on my 2006 10 Best list) and a welcome-back to Andy Richter. In 30 Rock’s time slot, Andy Barker, P.I. has Richter playing a mild-mannered CPA (like there’s another kind on TV) who inadvertently inherits a private-eye …

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost, don’t cross the invisible threshold below, unless you want blood to spurt out of your ears.

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Lostwatch fans–yes, both of you–are probably wondering about now why I’ve fallen asleep on the job. Technical problems, involving time.com, or our blog-hosting company, …

The final twelve contestants took the Big Stage last night, but the dramatic vocal performance of the night was a duet by Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, as they continued their ongoing tango of homophobia, or -philia, I’m not quite sure which. During a sidebar on, of all things, Melinda Doolittle’s shoes, Ryan sniped at Simon: “Stay out …

I haven’t had time to do a proper review of Comedy Central’s Halfway Home, which debuts tonight, and my deadlines being what they are, it doesn’t look like that’s likely to change soon, so: watch it. That review enough for you?

OK, a little more elaboration: this largely improv comedy–set at, yes, a halfway house–is a little like Reno …

The leading website of indie TV criticism just got a little less indie. Television Without Pity, home of endless fan discussions and nearly endless, snarky TV-show recaps, is being purchased by Bravo cable network.

As Tim Gunn is wont to say, this worries me. After all, Bravo is home to some of TWoP’s richest targets, including Top …

My post this morning about MTV reality shows yielded some comments on the age-old theme: remember when MTV used to play videos? The short answer, of course, is that if you can answer yes to that question, you are really too old to be watching MTV.

The longer answer to that question is that MTV does still play videos. (And no, I’m not …

Is MTV having a crisis of conscience? I’ve become hooked, lately, on two of MTV’s latest reality shows, Juvies and Engaged & Underage. (MTV shows are ideal for storing up on Tivo, because the channel has one of the highest commercial-to-program ratios on cable.) The former show, shot in raw documentary style, looks at the wrenching …

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Not nearly as much to comment on in this week’s Galactica, though, after all, you can’t expect them to kill off (or pseudo-kill off) a major character every week. While I was glad they got back to the fascinating character of Baltar, I was less interested in the legal machinations, especially the …

Great TV is often con artistry: a show takes an outlandish premise and gets you to buy it, not so much by making you believe that it’s plausible as by making you want to imagine a world in which it is. That’s the case with The Riches, FX’s mordant con-artist drama, which debuts tonight. It’s far-fetched. It’s outlandish. You will think …