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My column in the print TIME this week is pretty much a polished-up version of this earlier post on Hillary and SNL, more or less. (Less, actually: it’s 50% shorter and, therefore, 50% better.) But if you haven’t read it yet—then it’s new to you!
You always risk sounding a little ridiculous writing about things like Tina Fey’s sketch …
In today’s New York Sun, Kate Taylor has a round up of the most-mentioned candidates to succeed Tom Krens at the Guggenheim. As I mentioned yesterday, LACMA’s Michael Govan is much mentioned among the mentioners. And Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer In L.A., who I thought I was being original in suggesting for “the short list”, …
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Scant hours after the news that quarterlife would move from NBC to Bravo (and that, scant hours after the news that NBC canceled quarterlife) comes word that Scrubs is being saved–by moving to ABC. It’s still rare for a show to migrate among major networks: JAG went from NBC to CBS, and long before, Taxi picked up extra life by going …
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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 then the bloodletting began. Beware! Spoilage lieth …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before read this post, set your device to 2.342, set the oscillator to 11 Hz, and watch last night’s Lost.
How badly is my mind blown? There’s a little rivulet of blood running out of my nose. Excuse me. I need to call my constant.
OK. When I take notes …
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A quick question to anyone here reading the blog at this hour: are you checking Tuned In wondering when the hell I’m going to post Lostwatch? Because here’s the thing, I already wrote it. Sometimes I write it up as soon as I watch, sometimes the next morning. But even when I write it immediately after the show, I generally schedule it to …
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So there was this show, quarterlife. It started as a pilot on ABC. Then it got made on the Web. Then NBC bought it. Then it aired it, Tuesday night, and 3.1 million people watched. Then it got canceled. And now comes word that NBC’s corporate sibling Bravo is picking up up the series instead.
I’m looking on my watch… that was, like …
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That was quick. After pulling just over 3 million viewers in its initial runs, quarterlife is no more at NBC. The network pulled it after just one of the six episodes ordered, tying it with Emily’s Reasons Why Not as the shortest-lived network series ever.
Producer Marshall Herskovitz quickly issued a statement vowing to carry on:
I am
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I’ve heard a lot of excuses for failed TV series in my day as a critic. Usually they involve blaming the network, which is a good move because, hey, even people who love TV hate networks! The network didn’t promote us enough. They gave us a crappy time slot. They moved us to too many different time slots. They watered down our ideas. …
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I was on deadline most of the day yesterday, so I didn’t get around to noting the passing of Buckley, who–as Richard Corliss writes here–was as important a TV figure as he was a political and publishing one. Buckley was both a living anachronism and a man ahead of his time, as Richard points out; he exuded an old-fashioned WASPishness …
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I was the youngest child in my family, with siblings nine to fourteen years older than me. (Yes, I was an accident.) What happens when you grow up with older sibs is that you end up having the pop cultural references of someone much older. I think I’ve mentioned …
Tom Krens, the man behind the McGuggenheim, the museum as global franchise, is moving on. The Guggenheim board announced yesterday that Krens would retire later this year as director of the Guggenheim Foundation, a title he took on three years ago after he stepped aside as director of the museum. That job then went to Lisa Dennison, …
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One hitch in the theory that the media are in cahoots to get Hillary out of the race—ratings numbers like these, from MSNBC:
MSNBC’s telecast of last night’s Democratic candidates debate drew 7.8 million viewers (9-10:36 p.m. ET), becoming the most watched broadcast in the eleven year history of the network, according to Nielsen Media
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