Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 1, 2010

Vacation Robo-Post: The Day the World Didn't End

By James Poniewozik

Happy New Year! And welcome to the Tens, or the Teens, or the Teenies, or whatever the hell we’re going to call them! More important, congratulations on making it through the last decade, which some newsmagazine termed The Decade from Hell. As you’ll recall, the previous decade began with the dire prediction that a computer [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 30, 2009

Vacation Robo-Post: Best TV of the '00s, Honorable Mentions

By James Poniewozik

Somewhere on this site (I’d link, but I’m writing this post in advance) are posted my selections for the 10 best TV series of the ’00s. I could write a whole vast explanation of my criteria and my philosophy, but it comes down to this: I loved dozens of shows in the decade. I had [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 29, 2009

Vacation Robo-Post: Brilliant-But-Canceled Shows of the '00s

By James Poniewozik

As long as we’re remembering the decade in television, here’s a list of a dozen shows that could have been among the decade’s best, but lasted only a season or two (or less) before being snuffed out. (Note: I put Freaks and Geeks on my Best of the Decade list, and not here, because I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 28, 2009

Vacation Robo-Post: What Changed TV in the '00s

By James Poniewozik

On Dec. 31, 1999, the citizens of a world anxious that the Y2K bug would destroy civilization gathered anxiously to watch the clock strike midnight, huddled around their TV sets. Like barbarians! Today, they might catch it online, over their mobile phones, or better yet, TiVo the whole thing, catch some sleep and watch it [...]