Tuned InReview
For Richard and Mildred Loving, their marriage was a pretty simple matter. They grew up in a small Virginia town where everyone pretty much knew everyone, fell in love (not without some obstacles; she found him “arrogant” at …
Tuned InTelevision
Brief spoilers for last night’s Smash coming up:
I’m on deadline for the print magazine (remember those?), so that makes this a good morning to let you do the work. Namely: how did those of you who stuck with Smash after the …
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There were many, many musical performances last night at the Grammy Awards, and I am not here to review them for you: TIME’s music critic, Claire Suddath, has that taken care of for you right here. But though there was a lot to comment on—Adele’s potent comeback from throat surgery, Nicki Minaj’s staging of an early-’70s horror …
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There was a lot of chatter before Sunday night’s Grammy Awards about what sort of tribute the production would give to Whitney Houston, who died in Los Angeles the day before the performance. There was a lot of chatter during, …
Tuned InReview
Watching a very good episode of 30 Rock is like rushing up and down a joke rollercoaster with a jet engine strapped to the back of the car. “Hey Baby, What’s Wrong?” was an hour long and was not a very good episode of 30 Rock, …
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I mentioned earlier on this blog that I’ve decided to save hours and sanity by skipping the American Idol auditions this season. I make an exception, at least partially, for the Hollywood round, which is one of my favorite parts …
Tuned InTV Ratings
The patient had been diagnosed some time ago by TV-biz observers, but Wednesday Fox called House M.D.‘s time of death for the end of this season, after eight years on air. Fox cited “the decision” that Hugh Laurie and the …
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JC Penney did the right thing this week, standing by its celebrity spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres despite a conservative activist group’s demand that it drop association with her because she’s gay. The group, One Million Moms, asked Penney to “remain neutral in the culture war” by firing a gay celebrity. (“Neutrality” must mean not …
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The broadcast of the Super Bowl inspired hundreds of thousands of tweets on Twitter, and a few of them just got analyst Roland S. Martin suspended from CNN. The political commentator was criticized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance …
Tuned InTelevision
According to a report in Mediabistro, HBO is moving ahead with plans for a summer premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s cable-news drama The Newsroom, possibly on June 24. The report also says that there’s a new name for the fictional cable …
Tuned InTelevision
One fun thing about seeing episodes of shows in advance is going on Twitter and watching people’s reactions blow up at a certain scene you know will freak them out. In the case of the two-hour premiere of The River, that would …
Tuned InTelevision
The preliminary ratings are in, and it looks like NBC’s Smash, whose ads have been tattooed on the insides of your eyelids for three months, had a strong first airing at 10 p.m. We’ll have to see how well the numbers hold up …
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There’s a school of thought that says the scariest thing in a horror movie (or TV show) is the thing you can’t see. Another approach is to scare the hell out of the audience with images they can see–the more imaginatively …
