Tuned InTelevision
Matthew Weiner, AMC and the folks at Mad Men generally run a pretty tight ship when it comes to the flow of information about the program. But star Jon Hamm appears to have jumped the gun on a recent podcast, saying that the …
Tuned InTelevision
The New Hampshire primary is being held on Tuesday, but the bigger news for connoisseurs of campaign ads is that the Republican race has moved from the “contrast” phase to the “negative” phase to the “from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee” phase.
The latter was foreshadowed post-Iowa, when Newt Gingrich, having been the target of a …
Tuned InTelevision
One thing I can say for NBC’s legal-series take on John Grisham’s The Firm, which debuted last night, is that it gave me new appreciation for Work It. Not that The Firm is a worse show. It’s much better. But “much better” in this …
Tuned InTelevision
The different hours of network morning programs can be, essentially, two different shows (or in NBC’s case, four): the first one a news-based hour, the later, a package of features. But the two hours of the new CBS This Morning, …
Tuned InTelevision
While the Republican candidates were debating twice in ten hours and Tim Tebow was proving the existence of a football-obsessed God in the AFC wild card game, the TV networks continued to preview their midseason schedules at the …
Tuned InReview
The Occupy Wall Street movement did not give advance notice to network-TV development executives. So it was probably coincidence, or the work of the zeitgeist, that put on the air this fall shows like Revenge and 2 Broke Girls, …
Tuned InTelevision
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Tonight on IFC, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s artisanal small-batch sketch comedy, Portlandia, …
Tuned InTelevision
The Television Critics Association press tour got under way in Pasadena yesterday, kicking off nearly two weeks of presentations from broadcast and cable networks about their upcoming midseason shows. I’m not going this year—what? and leave Brooklyn in January?—but I’ll be reblogging highlights from the coverage of my various …
Tuned InNews Media
It seems like barely a year ago, because it was, that Keith Olbermann left MSNBC after a series of feuds with management involving everything from political donations to behind-the-scenes personality clashes. Olbermann quickly …
Tuned InTelevision
I know that the NBC publicity department exists to draw attention for NBC’s shows, not for Donald Trump’s political aspirations. I know that the fact that NBC announced the cast of the next Celebrity Apprentice, debuting next …
Tuned InNews Media
Eight people in Iowa are the most important figures in American politics this morning, and I don’t mean the ones who are running for President. The eight folks who provided Mitt Romney’s margin of victory in the Iowa caucus—apparently in somewhere Clinton County (above)—may not have settled the Republican race, but they made for a …
Tuned InReview
You do not need me to tell you that Work It, ABC’s new sitcom in which two unemployed, burly men squeeze themselves into women’s clothing to get jobs as pharmaceutical representatives, is a dumb TV show. The question is: is it …
Tuned InTelevision
Speaking of vacation binge-viewing–I’m writing this in advance to auto-post while I’m away, so just take my word for it that I recently put up a post on vacation binge-viewing–my holidays are a time when I’m consuming a lot of midseason TV along with my egg nog. Around this time last year, I was about to screen the full season of FX’s …
