Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 31, 2010

Talking Mad Men With the Amazing Ryan Twins

By James Poniewozik

OK, they’re not twins, but they are Ryans. Last night, I Skyped it with Ryan McGee of Boob Tube Dude and Mo Ryan—formerly of the Chicago Tribune and as of tomorrow, of AOL TV—to discuss Sunday’s Mad Men, “Waldorf Stories,” and season four in general. The results are above. The podcast is also available here [...]

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Tuned In+March 11, 2010

Listen to This: Talking Lost With the Ryans

By James Poniewozik

drlinus Here’s a little light listening for your Thursday night: I recorded a podcast the other night with the Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan and Zap2It’s Ryan McGee. Basically, we each cued up the “Dr. Linus” episode and talked about our thoughts and theories as it played. Because this is Lost, and we’re critics, it runs [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 27, 2010

TV Swag for Haiti

By James Poniewozik

Do you want to do something more to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake? Have you always longed to have your own American Idol TV tray? Now you can do both. The Chicago Tribune’s TV critic Maureen Ryan is eBaying TV DVDs and promotional swag items and donating all the proceeds to Partners in [...]

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Tuned In+December 17, 2009

Pizza Summit '09: The Exciting Conclusion!

By James Poniewozik

The industrious Mo Ryan has posted the last half, or two-thirds, of the transcript of Ryan, Alan Sepinwall and I jawboning about TV over pizza in New York this October. Among the topics: Dollhouse, The Shield‘s Armenian money train, Mad Men and a defense of Fox for canceling all those awesome shows that you love. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 16, 2009

Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place*

By James Poniewozik

Last October, Maureen Ryan, Alan Sepinwall and I met at John’s pizzeria in midtown Manhattan to divide the globe among our respective empires a margherita pie and talk about TV. Mo Ryan went to the trouble of recording and transcribing the convo and is posting it in three parts. (The Library of Congress will be [...]