…and by “you,” I mean “I.” Super Sunday is still three days away, but I already know what I’m waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba!, one bad-ass sock monkey, and friends for the KIA Sorento:
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One more preview after the jump. What are you looking …
OK, before the representatives of CNN and Media Matters shoot me e-mails, and Keith Olbermann names me The Worst Person in the World: Yes, I wrote the headline, but I didn’t take the poll on which it is based. Public Policy Polling surveyed Americans on which TV news operations they trust most and found that Fox News is the only outfit …
During the ten minutes or so I happened to tune in to the pregame of yesterday’s Jet-Colts championship game, I saw something that I could have happily lived my life without seeing: CBS pregame host James Brown interviewing the eTrade baby for his predictions on thegame:
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With Conan set to cede the Tonight Show back to Jay Leno after his Jan. 22 airing, TIME looks back at the entertainer’s most memorable characters, guests and zingers
Let me take off my TV-critic hat for a minute and put on my TV-business hat. Everyone’s assumption now—a well-founded one, it seems—is that, forced to choose between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, NBC will pick Jay. Leaving aside fairness, funniness or cosmic justice, is that the right business pick?
Short-term, I have to say: …
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David Milch is back in business with HBO, this time writing Luck, a drama pilot, to be directed by Michael Mann, about horse racing. There’s no guarantee that the pilot will become a series—since making Deadwood and John from Cincinnati, Milch made the HBO cop pilot Last of the …
I may be on vacation, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not working. Depending on how you define “work.” As I write this, I’m already looking at a tall stack of screeners to watch for midseason 2010 (including Big Love, 24 and Chuck for January). And there’s quite a roster of high-profile new projects for 2010 already. After the jump, I …
TIME’s James Poniewozik recaps the best TV of the decade, from a satirical news show to an urban crime drama.
Tuned In’s sister blog, RealClearPolitics, links this morning to a Wall Street Journal / NBC poll that finds 27% of Americans say that they get most of their news from Fox News compared with 5% for MSNBC (and 16% for CNN). When I first saw the headline, I thought: why bother asking? After all, there are already measures of viewership, …
I met a neighbor at a party last weekend and mentioned that I write for TIME. This led to a conversation about the New York Times–specifically, how many typos she’s noticed in the paper lately. They must be getting rid of all their copy editors! Yeah, I said, they’re probably stretched pretty thin–more copy to edit, in the paper and …
In the interest of fairness, let me disclose: I cannot fairly review George Stephanopoulos‘ first day on Good Morning America, because I only caught the second hour of the program. On the other hand, let’s face it: that second hour is what is going to make or break G-Steph as a morning host. You may have objections to his style or his …
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…in product placement!
From the get-go, The Jay Leno Show has been a business strategy first, an entertainment program second. And while its business success is debatable—it’s certainly cut costs for NBC, but often pulls no more viewers than Jay got at 11:30—Nielsen has …
ABC made official what has long been floated: that George Stephanopoulos will leave This Week and take over Good Morning America, starting next week.
Hosting a morning show obviously takes a different skill set than a weekly political interview show. Whether Stephanopoulos is suited for it remains to be seen, and whether it is suited …
