In this week’s issue of TIME (subscription required, but of course you have one, right?), I preview the fall TV season by looking—as several others have as well—at the many, many new shows this fall that have female stars or …
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In Which I Predict the Emmy Winners, Probably Incorrectly
The 2011 Emmy Awards are this Sunday night; I’ll be live-tweeting them as usual, and I’ll have some sort of writeup on the awards the next morning. There are several very competitive categories this year, with, for instance, the ineligibility of Breaking Bad opening space in the drama categories.
Who will win? Who should? After the …
I Don’t Know How She Does It, but Bagels Trump Kegels
Sarah Jessica Parker is a harried yet glamorous mother in this adaptation of Allison Pearson’s best seller
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TV Tonight: Season 7 of Sunny and an Archer Bonus
Consider this more a public service announcement than a review (I’ve been too busy with fall pilots to get through all the screeners), but FX’s Thursday comedy block returns tonight, a week before NBC’s does. Starting off is It’s …
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The Morning After: Re-Redemption
I originally started The Morning After posts on this blog a few years ago during fall premiere season, to give Tuned Inland a chance to discuss shows that premiered or returned the night before, shows I hadn’t gotten around to …
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Love to H8; Plus, My Fall Review Plans
I know it’s not really critically responsible to simply link to someone else’s review of a show and say, “What he said,” but I’m going to do that with Daniel Fienberg’s review of The CW’s H8R, starting tonight, because (1) I’m not doing a full-length review of every new show debuting over the next few weeks and (2) it’s just that damn …
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TV Tonight: Up All Night, Free Agents
Reviewing a new TV series can be part detective work and part psychic reading. You try to not only judge the finished pilot you’re looking at, but get a sense of where it’s come from (the history of its talent or influences, any …
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The Morning After: CNN Throws a Raucous Tea Party
Last night, the Republican field met for another debate, this one organized by CNN and a Tea Party group, and held in Florida. Michael Scherer at Swampland has a play-by-play, but in short we learned that (1) the GOP contenders want to make sure that Rick Perry does not pull away from the field; (2) CNN would really like the Tea Party not …
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TV Tonight: Ringer
When I previewed the pilot of The CW’s twin-noir thriller Ringer earlier this summer, I wanted to be charitable. Partly because, like many of you, I suspect, I loved Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But also …
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Rock Center with Brian Williams: When Bad Titles Happen to Good Anchors
This morning, NBC announced the title for its long-awaited primetime newsmagazine: Rock Center with Brian Williams, which will debut later this season, marks a big entry into the nighttime news business, with the network throwing its primary anchor and some of its greatest resources into a—oh, stop. I can’t do this. Because all I can …
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Entourage Finale: Bros Before Closure
The idea of doing a finale for a series like HBO’s Entourage seems to go against the very idea of the show. Whereas some series, like Lost or The Shield, demand a final closure or reckoning, Entourage has always been dedicated to …
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Breaking Bad Watch: Thin-Ice Road Truckers
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get off Google Earth and watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
There have been a couple of mysteries hanging over the last few episodes of Breaking Bad. First: what does Gus hope to gain by …
Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless
Compelling acting puts up a fight against some plausibility issues in this story of a mixed-martial-arts family feud