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This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night’s transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to …
Entourage returned Sunday night – a fact that, in previous years, would have been cause for jubilation around my house. But over the last few seasons, what used to be a witty, cutting, edgy observational drama about four young friends navigating the halls of Hollywood power has instead become a sort of male-oriented Sex and the City …
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I’m going to be away for the next week, exploring the exotic and humid climes of southeastern Michigan. (I probably won’t be able to keep myself off Twitter, so as always you can find me there.) So I regret to inform you that Tuned In will be temporarily improving in my absence, with not one but two guest bloggers.
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I’m on vacation next week (but Tuned In will still be kicking, thanks to the cyborg duo of Robo-James and Steven James Snyder; more on that later). While I’m out, here are a couple debuts I won’t have time to write up at greater length, but are worth some attention: ABC Family’s Huge and FX’s Louie.
ABC Family, which already has …
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The big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit is reportedly close to solving its directing dilemma, with Peter Jackson himself, according to The Hollywood Reporter, in talks to direct the Lord of the Rings prequels.
No, this isn’t a TV story, but the Tolkien books are dear enough to me to …
We’re only a couple weeks away from the July 25 return of Mad Men, so what better time to get back into the rhythm of debating the actions, motivations and true lies of Don Draper. TIME is just about to interview Jon Hamm about the show’s new season. Is there anything you want to know? Questions you’re dying to have answered. Just click here.
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This Sunday, HBO returns the second season of Hung and the seventh of Entourage, two series that I continue to follow despite their considerable challenges, but for very different reasons. With Hung, the story of a Detroit-area male prostitute (Thomas Jane) and his pimp (Jane Adams), I feel that there’s a really good dark comedy about …
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After seven years in cryogenic suspended animation—well, with a few wake-up breaks for TV movies—Futurama comes back to life tonight as a weekly animated series on Comedy Central with a one-hour, two-episode premiere. And appropriately enough, the comedy about the future crew …
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Ignoring the mandate of Universal Approbation for Betty White Projects in the year 2010, I gave Hot in Cleveland a mostly negative review last week, finding the show stale and clichéd despite a strong performance by White and not-terrible ones by her sitcom-alumnae costars. America responded by tuning in five million strong to the …
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The Palin Family’s domination of American television …
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The endless Wimbledon match has resumed at 2 sets and 59 games all on ESPN3 and ESPN U. Clear your calendar for the day.
[Update: And finally, Isner has won the match, taking the final set 70 to 68. Thus ruining Daily Show writer Tim Carvell’s theory that one of the players would eventually have to find a “Candidate” to replace him.]
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[Note: The above video is definitely not intended for children.]
A federal judge yesterday ruled in favor of Google and YouTube yesterday in Viacom’s lawsuit, saying that the site was not liable for copyright infringement because its users had uploaded copyrighted video to the site. …
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OK, I guess I can see why some of you find this whole sports-on-TV thing so exciting. It was quite a day for sports, in particular sports on ESPN, starting with this morning’s US vs. Algeria World Cup match, which ended (spoiler alert!) in a breathtaking 1-0 American victory on a Landon Donovan goal in what I am told is called stoppage …
