SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post until you have tested how easily a paper towel dispenser rips off a wall.
HBO / Doug Hyun
If you’re still watching TMYLM–statistically you’re not but I’ll keep posting, like the Omega Man talking to himself–you’ll notice that there’s less and less sex in every episode of My So-Called Sex Show. …
Friday Night Lights goes back to school this Friday. NBC Photo: Bill Records
Aaron Barnhart and I do not call each other up and plan what to write about any given day, what to wear (he’s better dressed than I am) or anything else. But the same morning that I used my Aliens in America review to confess that I never felt the Summer of …
Kalyan, left, and Dan Byrd. Marcel Williams/ The CW
Tonight, The CW debuts Aliens in America, which I gave a brief plug in the current issue of Time. A lot of advance raves have compared the show with The Wonder Years. I didn’t, perhaps because, apparently unlike every other TV critic in America, I was never that crazy for The Wonder …
Randy Tepper / Showtime
Only one network debut this weekend (Moonlight), but consider this your all-purpose thread for it and the various returning-show debuts. Did Dexter live up to expectations? Did Moonlight live down to them?
SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals developments on last night’s Meerkat Manor–although, if you watch Meerkat Manor, you probably already have a fairly good guess what those developments were.
ANIMAL PLANET
Last night, lovers of the Animal Planet hit nature show / reality soap opera Meerkat Manor said goodbye to the show’s star, Flower, …
Photos: Randy Tepper; Claire Folger/Showtime
New-fall-season triage has kept me from watching all four episodes of Dexter that Showtime sent. But the first episode finds Michael C. Hall in spellbinding form as the serial-killer-killing-serial-killer, under growing pressure as his secret comes closer to being exposed, and finding …
According to the new brain trust at NBC, this
plus this
…equals this:
To wit: Variety is reporting that Ben Silverman at NBC has greenlighted a remake of Knight Rider, in the form of a two-hour backdoor pilot to be directed by Doug Liman. But with transformers! Yes, says the trade mag, “The thinking is that smallscreen f/x …
I’ll be interviewed on the syndicated Satellite Sisters radio show today at 12:30 p.m. E.T., talking about the new TV season and my top-100 TV list. Where can you listen to it? Um… good question! You can stream the live show online (or download the podcast later) here. (NOTE: Does not actually require a satellite!)
Cliff Lipson/CBS
I wrote a bit the other day about the various trends of the new season–rich peeople, superpowers, nerds, etc.–but there’s an unusual little meta-trend that crosses a few of these genres: Nostalgia for Shows You Didn’t Realize Anyone Was Nostalgic For. A few shows this season are echoes of cult shows from the past. …
NBC Photo: Mitch Haddad
With the exception of Big Shots–reviews welcome from those of you who failed to heed my warning–last night was heavier on returning-series debuts: Earl, Betty, The Office, CSI, Grey’s. The floor is open for your postmortems. Also, reports welcome from anyone who can determine if ER is still on the air. Have …
NBC Photo: Trae Patton
Have I ever done a post on My Name Is Earl? I don’t think so. And I think I know why. I raved about Earl when it first came out. And I kept watching it, if not every week. It stayed as good as it was in the beginning. Pretty much exactly as good. Which was the problem. I never felt the show grew, or expanded its …
I did an interview yesterday with Brian Lehrer, who hosts an excellent daily talk show at public radio station WNYC. Those of you outside The Capital of the Universe, as well as New Yorkers who were for some reason not glued to the radio at 10:40 a.m., can find the streaming audio here. I’m just as annoying as in print, but with sound …
Cavemen is evolving (or devolving), out of sight of critics. Gale Adler / ABC
We’re introducing a new feature here at Tuned In, High Quality Show Alert!, which seeks to inform you about upcoming TV series that are apparently so awesome, so incredibly good, that the networks are refusing to screen them in advance for critics. Because …
