Before you read this post, check that your office safe is securely locked, then watch last night’s Big Love:
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TV Tonight: Failin' Fillion
There’s a part of me that wants to just look the other way on ABCs Castle, wish the excellent Nathan Fillion well on finding continued employment and forget that it ever existed. But I suspect other Tuned Inlanders like Fillion as much as I do, and I owe it to them to lower their expectations, if not save them the hour altogether.
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An Hourlong Nightly News. Probably Won't Happen. Should It?
Prominent media insiders–by which I mean “my editors”–are excited this morning over a brief passage in a New York Times article about the success of the NBC news division:
NBC’s surge in the evening has been strong enough for the news division president, Steve Capus, to suggest that NBC is positioned to be the first network to
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Programming Note
Since I posted on the season 2 debut of Breaking Bad Friday, feel free to use this post to discuss it. Also, this is as good a time as any to discuss a crisis affecting Tuned In: There is just too damn much good TV on the weekends for me to blog it all, without hiring either a personal assistant or a second father for the Tuned In …
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The Morning After: Chekhov Is Russian for Karma
Brief spoilers for last night’s The Amazing Race coming up after the jump:
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BSG Watch: Down With the Ship
Spoilers for Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:
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TV Weekend: Re-Breaking Bad
The first season of Breaking Bad was truncated by the writers’ strike at seven episodes out of a planned ten, though this did not stop Bryan Cranston for winning an Emmy for his portrayal of Walter White, dying chem teacher …
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30 Rock Watch: Cobweb of Rainbows
Brief spoilers for last night’s 30 Rock after the jump:
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Corporate Press Release Theater: Dancing Without the Stars
Jewel and Nancy O’Dell have both withdrawn from the next edition of DWTS, each citing “injuries.” An excerpt from ABC’s statement follows without comment. Because there are just no words:
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Office Watch: Shoot That Poison Sparrow
The enjoyable thing about an episode like the Valentine’s Day installment (?? — someone monkeyed with the schedule) of The Office is how it allows a moment for nearly everyone from the broad cast. Young, old, single or paired, gay or straight, everyone has relationship issues. And while Michael’s two-ships-that-passed-in-the-blood-drive …
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Idol Watch: Let's Twist Again
Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:
Top 10 Graphic Novels
Watchmen is one of TIME’s Top 100 Novels. Book critic Lev Grossman picks nine other graphic novels to join it in the pantheon.
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This Showrunner, That Show: Let's Play TV Transplant!
What’s keeping me from doing more blogging today is working on my review of Kings for the print magazine. Naturally, it made me want to write a blog post.
I don’t want to telegraph too much about my review—it’s complicated—but one thing I was thinking as I watched was that I sometimes wished that a different writer had gotten …