Not content with taking over Twitter, Conan O’Brien will, as previously rumored, do a live tour of the country this spring, likely with sidekick Andy Richter and Max Weinberg, report TMZ and The Hollywood Reporter (though the two sources disagree on the details). The tour plans to stop on Jay Leno’s doorstep in Los Angeles, among other …
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I’ve never really thought too much about the flow of NBCs Thursday night comedies and why which shows run in which order. From a scheduling standpoint, NBC wants to put its established heavy hitters (The Office and 30 Rock) in the 9 p.m. slot, and the relative newbies (Community and Parks and …
Also in this week’s print TIME is my review of FX’s Justified, which so far I am loving, and not just because of my man-crush on Timothy Olyphant. (Mrs. Tuned In likes him too so it’s a wholesome shared family interest.) It doesn’t debut until March 16, but the review had to run early for boring scheduling / air-traffic-control …
EW’s Ken Tucker is not only a brilliant critic but a braver man than I am, and therefore he subjected himself to last night’s hourlong edition of The Marriage Ref. (Actually Ken liked the first airing of the show, but I won’t hold that against him.) He reports what I might have expected: that stretched out to an hour, Ref overstays its …
There’s a TV-related cover on the print TIME this week, though I didn’t write it; historian Douglas Brinkley looks at HBO’s The Pacific, Tom Hanks and the actor’s drive to become America’s celebrity-historian-in-chief. As Brinkley notes, the follow-up to Band of Brothers is similar and in significant ways very different:
Spoilers for the one-hour Office special coming up after the jump:
Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump: