Tuned In
Al Roker is wearing his New York City Marathon medal on the Today show this morning, and I don’t blame him. I wore mine home on the subway yesterday, and there’s nothing like getting rounds of congratulations from strangers for your running bling. I’m considering making it a regular part of my wardrobe.
I finished the marathon …
Tuned InTuned In
Quick spoilers for last night’s The Walking Dead coming up:
A series like The Walking Dead has different constituencies to try to please. There are the fans who have read the original comics, and the viewers who haven’t. There …
Tuned InUncategorized
Ten months after the Jaypocalypse, a beard, a stage tour and much drama later, Conan debuts on TBS. For all the hype around the show, and the news around how the show came to be, what we’re actually going to see on air has remained a fairly tightly held secret. I don’t have answers. But here are some questions:
* Where did Conan’s fans …
Tuned InUncategorized
My Paley Center Q&A Wednesday night with Louis C.K. went great. Which is to say, he was great—all I really did was lob some questions, stepped back and let him go, while I tried not to touch my head too often. (I never know what to do with my hands at these sorts of things.) Fortunately, he more than obliged.
The Paley Center has …
Tuned In
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ll be running the New York Marathon this Sunday (televised, not that you’ll be able to see me, on NBC). If you ever have the chance and inclination to do it, it’s a great experience. It’s honestly touching how thousands of New Yorkers throng almost the entire course to cheer on complete strangers, even, …
Tuned InNews Media
This just in: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann supports Democrats. According to a report in Politico this morning, Olbermann made the maximum legal donations to three Democratic candidates last month, one of them immediately after he appeared on Olbermann’s show.
This is potentially a problem for Olbermann, because it looks as though he …
Tuned InUncategorized
[vodpod id=Video.4837268&w=425&h=350&fv=]
Brief spoilers for last night’s Community coming up:
A good episode of Community is all a matter of how you see things. Literally. On one level, an episode like “Aerodynamics of Gender” can seem fantastical, what with Abed’s Robo-Bitch-vision and Jeff and Troy gamboling in a magical trampoline …
Tuned InUncategorized
Conan O’Brien‘s new talk show debuts on TBS next Monday, which is sure to raise memories of the whole ugly scene last January when NBC threw over O’Brien at 11:35 p.m. for Jay Leno. (As will the timely publication the same day of Bill Carter’s Jaypocalypse dirt-disher, The War for Late Night.)
But whatever you think of how that played …
Tuned InUncategorized
[vodpod id=Video.4829710&w=425&h=350&fv=]
Earlier this week, I did an interview with a reporter who’s doing a story on how the recession (or crappy recovery, or whatever the proper term is) is or isn’t affecting TV. I’m always a little skeptical of the idea that news events strongly drive viewing trends; I tend to think people watch …
Tuned In
The midterms are over, which means that department stores are taking down their Halloween pumpkins and putting up their Election 2012 decorations. And in that spirit I give you, online in advance of its appearance in the print TIME magazine, my early review of the TLC reality show Sarah Palin’s Alaska. (With a spiffy picture gallery to …
Tuned InUncategorized
Brief spoilers for last night’s Terriers after the jump:
Last week’s Terriers post convinced me there’s enough interest in the show that I should return to it on the blog. And this was a good week to do it, because “Pimp Daddy” was a strong explanation of two questions that Terriers explores. The first is a question common to any …
Tuned InUncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgEDnwx2fw]
PBS’s six-part documentary Circus debuted last night, and the tent-raiser episode, so to speak, started off by taking a broad look at the culture of an ancient, itinerant entertainment profession. And while the obvious calling card of the show is the spectacular visuals of, well, …
Tuned InNews Media
* Let me make clear that, for all I know, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi/time-travel/dinosaur show Terra Nova for Fox may be the greatest thing ever created for television, if it comes to exist. But it continues to make the kind of news you don’t want an upcoming show to make. First it was announced before a single frame was shot, raising the …
