Tuned In+Uncategorized | September 23, 2010

The Morning After: The Jury Is In

By James Poniewozik

You know the drill: it’s Premiere Week, and I’m asking you to weigh in on last night’s series premieres and series returns, including the various shows I never got around to reviewing here. (Among them last night, the new legal dramas The Defenders on CBS and The Whole Truth on ABC—not to mention Undercovers, the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | October 9, 2009

NBC Takes Southland's Badge. What's Next?

By James Poniewozik

Sometimes networks cancel low-rated shows after their first season, and sometimes they cancel low-rated shows in their second seasons. NBC, after adding The Jay Leno Show this fall, shows itself willing to continually innovate with new and creative ways to get rid of dramas: it renewed cop show Southland at the end of last season, [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | September 30, 2009

TV Tonight: Hank and The Middle

By James Poniewozik

Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton both starred in long-lasting hit comedies in the 1990s (Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond). On Fox’s short-lived Back to You, they teamed up as news anchors, forming a kind of sitcom-star supergroup. Now they’re debuting back-to-back sitcoms on ABC, a symmetry that demands comparison. When two sitcoms stars once united [...]