Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up… after the break!

Ted and Stella get intimate. / MONTY BRINTON/CBS We’ve already established that all it takes to make me go gaga is to put a Big Star song on the soundtrack of your TV show. But I’m pretty sure that even if the beautiful “Thirteen” had not been playing over Ted and Stella’s two-minute date, the [...]

At some point in its abbreviated season, I may start doing a full-on Riches Watch, but for now I’m going to have to file that under Things I’ll Do Sometime When They Invent A 48-Hour Day. In the meantime, I know there’s some interest in The Riches in Tuned Inland, so I’m throwing this thread [...]

I’ll save the spoilers on last night’s American Idol elimination for the comments, but suffice it to say I got a couple of my predictions right, and a couple very wrong. Did America get it right, America? And how do you handicap the remaining finalists?

Brooke White does an acoustic Love Is a Battlefield. / F Micelotta / Getty Images for Fox Time music guru and evil overlord of time.com Josh Tyrangiel takes another stab at reviewing the women’s performances as American Idol pares down to its final dozen. (After we get to the 12 finalists next week, you’ll be [...]

It’s funny; the other night Mrs. Tuned In and I were watching ’70s night on American Idol and saying how cool it would be if someone picked a Todd Rundgren or Carole King song. We had to wait for the elimination-night medley, but we got both I Saw the Light and The Earth Move. And [...]

Don’t retire this Castro yet. / FOX I’m divvying up this week’s American Idol semifinal coverage with time.com editor / music critic Josh Tyrangiel, and his reviews of Tuesday’s boys’ night ’70s sing-off should be up any… second… now. (Whoa! There it is already.) If you ask me, Josh got the lucky half of the [...]

Audra McDonald, Rashad and Sanaa Lathan. / ABC I forgot to link earlier to my brief review of ABC’s A Raisin in the Sun, so i figured I’d open up this thread to any comments on it. I think P. Diddy (sorry, Sean Combs) has gotten a lot of credit for being better than you’d [...]

As you read this, I should be in Florida at the summer condo of the Tuned In-Laws, where–Mrs. Tuned In-Law being an avid American Idol fan–I almost certainly have watched the semifinal Round of 24 kick off. But I’m in a senior community with limited Internet access–and believe me, you don’t want to fight the [...]

If you are reading this post, I am already dead. That, or, more likely, I have not managed to blitz out a post about last night’s The Wire before catching a plane for vacation. Which means you’re catching this murder this week. Run with it.

“Wait a minute… words on a prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funions… the writers are back!” –Jon Stewart The writers’ strike is over, which means I can finally go back to being uninterested in late-night television. I kid, mostly, but it’s true that as far as late-night is concerned, the [...]