Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 13, 2011

TV Tonight: Damages Comes Back, While Ted Danson Moves on to CSI

By James Poniewozik

Damages returns for a fourth season on DirecTV last night tonight. I’ve previewed some of the new season, guest-starring John Goodman as a defense contractor embroiled in scandal, but the show has become a little like legal 24 for me: lots of talent and strong performances, but it has increasingly seemed to strain to up its stakes in its one-case-a-season format. I’ll keep one eye on it for a while, but if any longtime fans checked check out the debut, I’m curious to know what you think. [Update: Sorry--Damages returns tonight, July 13; I had a typo in the calandar I use to keep track of debuts. Hazard of watching shows on screeners.]

Meanwhile, there was some fortuitously related late-breaking news last night, as CBS announced that Damages alum Ted Danson will take over for Laurence Fishburne on CSI.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 20, 2010

Damages Moves to DirecTV, New Official Savior of Television

By James Poniewozik

I believe we can start thinking of satellite provider DirecTV as the Lourdes of television, the last hope for praised but low-rated TV shows and their fans. A couple years ago, it rescued Friday Night Lights by working out a cost-sharing deal with NBC in exchange for first-run rights. Now it’s adopting the award-winning legal [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 26, 2010

The Morning After: Assess the Damages

By James Poniewozik

Damages, as you know if you have followed the show in either of its first two seasons, is a show about trust issues. And it’s a show with which I have trust issues myself. (Minor/vague spoilers after the jump.)

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Tuned In+December 1, 2009

FX's Former Lawman Gets Justified

By James Poniewozik

FX announced its midseason schedule today. On tap: Archer, Damages and Nip/Tuck (doesn’t it feel like Nip/Tuck is always returning?) in January; a new Louis C.K. comedy, Louie, in the spring; and in March, the much-anticipated (by me, anyway) Timothy Olyphant drama, once called Lawman, which will now be titled Justified. Looking forward to the [...]