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In the new print issue of TIME, we have our summer Arts preview (subscription required), in which I blurb 11 summer TV shows I’m most interested in seeing. This is not to say the “best” shows of the summer, because they’re shows that I have not yet watched (the new series, like The Newsroom), whose new episodes I haven’t seen yet (returning series, like Breaking Bad) or that I cannot watch without a time machine (the Olympics and the conventions).
OK, so much for summer; let’s move on to fall!
My column in this week’s print TIME (subscription required) is a midseason update on Mad Men. In it, I look at how the show’s (literally) brighter, bolder 1966 color palette reflects (figuratively) the less subtle times it’s dealing with as well as the show’s bolder, more formally daring–and sometimes also less-subtle–storytelling this season. The show, [...]
Who’s nicer to dogs? Whose idiot supporters said more obnoxious things than the other guy’s idiot supporters? Who didn’t eat a cookie that it would have been more advisable for him to eat? These are some of the burning issues that have faced America as the general election of 2012 has gotten under way. And [...]
You will hear an awful lot about Girls for a little show from an indie-film director. I don’t blame you for doubting whether Girls can actually be that good. But Girls is actually that good.
My new column is about women in political power on TV, including HBO’s Game of Thrones (returning Sunday), which is increasingly becoming a clash of queens.
Remember Mad Men? If you’re reading a TV blog, I’m sure you do. But it’s been so long, I wouldn’t blame you if you don’t remember much. In my essay in the newest print TIME magazine (subscription required to read), I look at the two-hour season premiere, Sunday, March 25, in the context of the [...]
In my new column in the print TIME magazine, I review the HBO movie Game Change, about the vice presidential nomination and trainwreck campaign of Sarah Palin in 2008. I don’t think it’s a very good movie. Sarah Palin and her defenders have also had a lot to say about the movie. She says it’s [...]
Last week, New York Times public editor (the equivalent of an ombudsman) Arthur Brisbane wrote a blog post asking whether, in covering the campaign, reporters should challenge in the body of their straight-news stories statements by candidates that are dubious, distorted or outright false. Or as he put it—in a headline that generated unsurprising outrage [...]
One reasonable definition of a good TV show is one that makes you see something familiar in a new way. That was particularly the case for me with All-American Muslim, a reality show debuting on TLC Nov. 13 and the subject of my column in TIME this week (subscription required, so pony up the dough). [...]
In my print TIME column this week, I take a look at the much-photographed and -videotaped death of Muammar Gaddafi.
In this week’s TIME comes my disappointed review (subscription required) of the two-hour pilot of Terra Nova, which premieres Monday. This is a good time to repeat the caveat that a review is not a prediction of ratings: I will be surprised if Terra Nova is not the highest-rated new-series debut of the season. It’s [...]
In this week’s issue of TIME (subscription required, but of course you have one, right?), I preview the fall TV season by looking—as several others have as well—at the many, many new shows this fall that have female stars or mostly female ensembles. It’s impossible to draw a single conclusion from so many different shows, [...]
I don’t have a piece in this week’s TIME magazine, but this issue, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, is a sweeping enough undertaking that I wanted to point it out. Rather than fill out the issue with stories and essays by bloviators like me, the issue focuses on the first-person stories of [...]
For Labor Day weekend, this week’s TIME magazine includes our summer fall Arts preview. (Usual caveat: you need to subscribe to read the whole thing.) Because television must share space in it with the lesser arts, such as film, visual art and books, the TV section gets only a page in the magazine, and includes [...]
This week in TIME magazine, accidentally but appropriately timed with a cover on the decline of Europe and coverage of the general lack of good economic news anywhere, I have a plus-sized column about cable TV’s hot genre with a fitting theme for the age of austerity: shows about making money off old junk. The [...]
This Dead Tree Alert is a bit of a cheat; there is no new issue of TIME magazine this week. But MTV turns 30 years old on Monday, and in the issue currently on newsstands, there’s a photo spread on 30 highlights from MTV’s 30 years on the air. And, for a bit more fun, [...]
I loved the pilot of Wilfred when I reviewed it some weeks back, and I enjoyed the second and third episodes that FX sent out at the same time. But the main concern I had with the show was that it had the potential to either be a rewardingly weird and dark show or a [...]
My column in the print edition of TIME this week is about this week’s travails of News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch, and how his empire has been rattled by the very forces with which he built it: tabloid gossip, political access and the sharp-elbowed pursuit of both. It includes a disclosure statement so long I [...]
It may be Harry Potter day in the rest of the entertainment world, but here at Tuned In, it’s Breaking Bad weekend. The new issue of TIME carries my feature on the return of the AMC drama, including a set visit I made to Albuquerque last spring. (And no offense to the citizens of ABQ, [...]
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, my column in this week’s TIME will seem familiar. It’s essentially my post from earlier this week on judge-and-jury Nancy Grace and the Casey Anthony trial, tightened to fit a page in the magazine, and updated to cover her reactions to the not-guilty verdict that night and [...]
Walter Salles' film of the Beat Generation classic wastes a strong cast, including Twilight's Kristen Stewart, in a needless tribute to '50s wanderlust
The Marvel superhit takes less than a month to rise to No. 4 on the all-time worldwide blockbusters list
| 1 | Marvel's The Avengers | $55.1M |
| 2 | Battleship | $25.3M |
| 3 | The Dictator | $17.4M |
| 4 | Dark Shadows | $12.8M |
| 5 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | $10.5M |
Loud guns! Big boats! Rihanna! Peter Berg's Battleship defies anything you're expecting
Twenty-five men, a bunch of roses, and one lady who is trying really hard not to catch a disease on national television. That's right, it's The Bachelorette.
With Rihanna starring in Battleship, TIME looks back at a few recording artists who shined on the big screen
