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Tuned In+Television | May 29, 2012

The 5,000th Post Post

By James Poniewozik

When I started Tuned In, in fall 2005, it was supposed to be a temporary thing. Today, it hits the 5K mark, thanks to you.

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Tuned In+Tuned In | April 6, 2012

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

A note to Tuned Inlanders: I’m going to be on vacation starting today and through the rest of next week. Sorry. I like to think of myself as an expensive chandelier that requires regular maintenance and polishing. All will not be quiet while I’m out, however. My Game of Thrones weekly review will still post [...]

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Tuned In+Television | December 23, 2011

Programming Note: Dashing Through the Snow Edition

By James Poniewozik
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It’s that time of year, when the Tuned In family overpacks the Tuned Inmobile, heads out to the Tuned In homeland in Michigan, and prays that a blizzard does not immobilize New York City again just before we return. I’ll be away through New Year’s, but I’ve loaded up Robo-James with a few posts for [...]

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Tuned In+Television | December 7, 2011

The Top 10 TV Episodes of 2011: The Best and the Rest

By James Poniewozik
Lewis Jacobs/NBC

My list of the Top 10 TV Episodes of 2011 is also up at time.com. (See my post about my Top 10 TV Shows picks for some explanations and general philosophies of listmaking.) After the jump, my annual caveats/explanations, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, and some honorable mentions:

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Tuned In+Television | December 7, 2011

The Top 10 TV Series of 2011: The Best and the Rest

By James Poniewozik
Kent Smith/SHOWTIME

TIME’s annual collection of top-10 lists is up, including my list of the Top 10 TV Shows of 2011. (Also up is my list of Top 10 TV Episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.) After the jump, I’ll post my complete list, along with a partial list of honorable mentions. But first, it’s [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | September 14, 2011

Love to H8; Plus, My Fall Review Plans

By James Poniewozik

I know it’s not really critically responsible to simply link to someone else’s review of a show and say, “What he said,” but I’m going to do that with Daniel Fienberg’s review of The CW’s H8R, starting tonight, because (1) I’m not doing a full-length review of every new show debuting over the next few [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 19, 2011

Programming Note: Bad Robot!

By James Poniewozik

Because you’ve earned a well-deserved break from reading me, I’m going to take one for the team and go on vacation starting tomorrow. Tuned In will chug along next week, with some daily posts automatically published by Robo-James, seen here picking up some extra money in a recent modeling gig at Comic-Con. (Fair warning to [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | August 1, 2011

Programming Note: Heading West

By James Poniewozik

I’m en route to the TCA press tour in Los Angeles, where I’ll be operating the Tuned In west coast bureau through Saturday. Much of today will be spent in transit, but I’ll be blogging from there the rest of the week–possibly a lot some days and little other days, depending how much time I [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | July 21, 2011

Dead Tree Alert: The Humbling of Murdoch; Also, On the Price of Dead Trees

By James Poniewozik

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 [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | July 1, 2011

Building a Better Tuned In: What Would You Like to See Here?

By James Poniewozik

I’m still on vacation (this is a robo-post, so I am writing on the assumption that an asteroid has not struck the Earth in the interim). But I thought the long holiday weekend would be a good time to crowdsource some ideas from you, the readers, for a Tuned In redesign that will hopefully happen [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | June 27, 2011

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

I’m going to be on vacation for the next week, traversing the wilds of southeast Michigan and, with any luck, having at least one sandwich at Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor. Keep checking this space, though: there may be a guest post or two, and I’ve set up Robo-James—taking a break from his burgeoning career in [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | May 27, 2011

Housekeeping: Summertime, Plans for the Blog, Your Comments on Comments

By James Poniewozik

Even though TV is a more year-round phenomenon than ever, the end of the regular TV season—with the crush of upfronts news and all the season finales to watch/cover—still feels like finishing a race for me. So Memorial Day is a good time to do what I would do after running a marathon: catch my [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | May 6, 2010

Tuned Inland Poll: Comedy Night (Reviews) Done Right

By James Poniewozik

A little housekeeping question about my morning-after reviews of Thursday night’s comedies. Now that NBC is in the position of having four good (or at least worth reviewing) sitcoms on Thursday night, I recently ditched the practice of doing longer separate reviews of one or two, and instead have been doing a picture gallery of [...]