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Tuned In+Television | November 28, 2011

TV Tonight: The Sing-Off Sings Itself Off

By James Poniewozik

The most important show on television, The Sing-Off, ends its first regular-season outing—and, if I’m to guess from the ratings, possibly its last—tonight with a live finale. As I wrote earlier, together with Top Chef it’s one of the only primetime shows we watch as a family with the Tuned In Jrs.; from it, they’ve learned about harmonies and dynamics and, I fear soon, the painful adult lesson of what happens when not enough other people watch your favorite show.

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Tuned In+Tuned In | November 9, 2011

Reality TV: Bringing Families Closer Together

By James Poniewozik
NBC

When reality TV swept primetime, people had lots of guesses as to what would come of it. But I don’t recall anyone predicting that it would become the new family viewing.

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Tuned In+Tuned In | September 20, 2011

The Morning After: Waitresses and Waltzes

By James Poniewozik
CBS

It was a big night of debuts and returns last night: now it’s your turn to tell us all what you thought—about the waitresses of 2 Broke Girls, the cocktail waitresses of The Playboy Club, the return of Dancing with the Stars or the double-shot of How I Met Your Mother (which I’ll check back [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 16, 2011

The Sing-Off Names New, Super-Sized Cast

By James Poniewozik

Because Tuned In aims to be your one-stop source of information on The Most Important Show on Television, The Sing-Off, I wanted to get you the list of the 16 competing groups for the new, longer version of the a cappella competition that will air starting in September. The main distinguishing feature of the list [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 2, 2011

NBC Day at Press Tour: Up All Afternoon

By James Poniewozik

I arrived at the Beverly Hilton for TCA press tour in the middle of the afternoon, so I missed the first half of NBC’s day of presentations, in which we learned that The Playboy Club is actually about the empowerment of women and that new programming chief Robert Greenblatt would like to bring a little [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 21, 2010

The Morning After: Perfect Pitch, Im-Perfect Couples

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off—and brief thoughts on the preview of NBC’s Perfect Couples—coming up:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 16, 2010

Sing-Off Watch: It's Not Over 'Til…

By James Poniewozik

Brief spoilers for last night’s The Sing-Off coming up: It was the last performance before the live finale of The Sing-Off next Monday, and that meant it was time for some tough choices. The judges, having eliminated one group to take the field down to four, needed to do one more round of culling to [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 14, 2010

Sing-Off Watch: You Call That Guilty?

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s The Sing-Off coming up: Competition continued last night on The Most Important Television Event of Our Era, with the six remaining teams in The Sing-Off selecting from “rock songs” and “guilty pleasures.” I had my issues with the elimination, and I question whether “guilty pleasure” in fact means what the show [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 7, 2010

The Sing-Off Returns: Handicapping Season Two

By James Poniewozik

The Most Important Television Event of Our Era, the a cappella battle The Sing-Off, returned last night to NBC with its three judge panel, Nick Lachey and this time ten entrants showcasing the diversity and lovable dorkiness of singing without instruments. Who’s a threat? Who’s going home? After the jump, a quick, and by no [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 22, 2009

Sing-Off Watch: Nota Bene

By James Poniewozik

Still on vacation, but since I’ve committed an inordinate amount of blogging to it already, a couple last thoughts on The Sing-Off coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 17, 2009

The Morning After: I Want to Be Your Sledgehammer

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 16, 2009

The Morning After: General Dynamics

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for night two of The Sing-Off coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 15, 2009

The Morning After: Ben Folds—Great Reality Judge, or Greatest Reality Judge?

By James Poniewozik

Because Mrs. Tuned In has an interest in choral music and because it’s December, we checked out the debut of the a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off. When I saw that the judges included a personal favorite, pianist-singer-songwriter Ben Folds, I didn’t know whether to be excited or depressed. I mean, I’m glad the man’s [...]