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Robo-James’ Time Machine has been indulging in my nostalgia all this week, but the delightful thing about America is that nostalgia is no longer merely for the old. In July, Nickelodeon began running a block of ’90s kids’ shows in late night, for not-that-alter-kockers (call them …
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It’s almost fall, which means that promos for new fall shows are starting to reach a crescendo. But one thing that we’ve lost amid all the multimedia advertising is what used to be a network staple: the fall-season promo reel. Above, see an example from the ABC “Still the One” …
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When you remake a TV show that used to be a pop-cultural phenomenon, you’re remaking the idea of it as much as you are the show itself. That is, when ABC airs its reboot of Charlie’s Angels (or in this case should we call it a re-booty?), only part of the intended audience will be …
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It’s fair to say that Terra Nova is the most anticipated new fall show, or close to it, if only because of all it’s trying to pull off—a TV show made on a blockbuster movie scale, with a massive budget, extensive CGI, location shooting in Australia, and a plot that incorporates …
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If all has gone well, by the time you read this Mrs. Tuned In, the Tuned In Jrs. and I will be in sunny rainy Costa Rica, a destination I am not ashamed to say we chose at least in part because it had looked so attractive on the Prize Puzzle in Wheel of Fortune. Many of my early ideas …
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Because you’ve earned a well-deserved break from reading me, I’m going to take one for the team and go on vacation starting tomorrow. Tuned In will chug along next week, with some daily posts automatically published by Robo-James, seen here picking up some extra money in a recent modeling gig at Comic-Con. (Fair warning to shutterbugs: …
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Yesterday I noted that Christine O’Donnell’s walking off Piers Morgan Tonight during an interview was not exactly a bad thing for Piers Morgan Tonight, which could use it as a publicity boost. Boy, are they! Last night the show returned to the subject, sounding out guest James Fallows on O’Donnell’s walkoff, while CNN anchors have been …
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I’m not sure if I’ll get a chance to write up last night’s Louie this morning, but after it aired, former Late Night with Conan O’Brien writer Louis CK also showed up on TBS’s Conan to chat with his old boss. (It was also, you’ll recall, as a guest of Conan’s on NBC that Louis CK gave the …
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Because the whole world (where “whole world” = media-obsessed people like me) seems to be talking about it this morning, I feel obligated to post the video of former Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell walking off the set of The Piers Morgan Show on CNN last night.
Though honestly? …
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It’s easier for me to keep a positive image of Rescue Me in mind if I forget most of what happened in the middle of the series’ run: all the wackiness, the Tommy-Sheila drama and the various, familiar re-spiralings of Tommy into alcohol. The Platonic ideal version of Rescue Me in my mind would be a series that ended after, say, its …
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AMC may have had a hell of a time figuring out whether to bring Mad Men back, for how much money and at what length, but other networks are not hesitating (despite the show’s relatively paltry ratings) to put their own versions of Mad Men on the air—or, at least, their own versions …
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Bravo is reportedly weighing what to do with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after news emerged that Russell Armstrong, an estranged husband of one of the show’s leads, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide. Armstrong was a recurring figure on the reality soap, one of whose …
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In a way, criticizing the political media for imbalanced coverage of the Iowa Straw Poll is like criticizing the sports media for imbalanced coverage of the Lingerie Bowl. It’s a nonbinding, festival-like event in which candidates essentially buy votes (or at least buy entrance, …
