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+Books | May 14, 2012

Celebrity Author? Have We Got a Book Title For You

By Jeffrey Kluger

What famous folks call their memoirs is based entirely on the kind of celeb they are

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | June 1, 2010

Would You Watch Parks & Rec If It Were Friends, America?

By James Poniewozik

Over at Maclean’s, Jaime Weinman (a great, vastly knowledgeable critic you should be reading regularly) has an insightful post wrestling with the question of why Parks and Recreation has a vastly improved second season, but it didn’t result in improved ratings. He posits that the problem was it didn’t retool in any visible way (recasting, [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 19, 2009

Minimalist TV

By James Poniewozik

Mrs. Tuned In, a graphic design connoisseur (or is that connoisseuse?), pointed me to this way-cool tumblr blog, which proposes pared-down title graphics for a series of modern and classic TV shows. Each poster, by designer Albert Exergian, boils down a show to a single essential image, as with Six Feet Under, pictured, or, cleverly, Kojak. Be [...]