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The most memorable moment of last night’s Emmy awards was from an acceptance speech we didn’t hear. Or part of one, anyway. Having won best drama actress, Sally Field launched into a passionate, flustered speech about playing a mother and dedicating her performance to mothers in wartime. “If mothers ruled the world,” she said, “there …

7:28 p.m.: I’d like to take this moment to thank Mrs. Tuned In. Not because I’ve won anything, but because she is, as I type, in the midst of putting Tuned In Jr and Tuned In Jr Jr to bed, solo, so that I can “work” by watching a TV show and typing about it. Do not let your children marry TV critics.

7:32 p.m.: Fox’s red-carpet folks …

That’s right. Keep watching it. Keeeeeeeep watchin’. All weekend. Hey! You looked away! I said, keep…

OK, you can look away in a second, but first: if you can manage to balance your margarita and chips atop your laptop, join Tuned In Sunday night for a liveblog of the Emmy awards. I probably won’t cover the red carpet, pre-red-carpet, …

Lara Spencer and Pat O’Brien, neither of whom I actually met. / THE INSIDER

Jessica Simpson will be on The Insider tonight. And so will I–although not in the same room–talking about that top-100 list you wish I would shut up about already. Good thing I decided not to put Access Hollywood on the list. That would have been …

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Mad Men Watch will be slightly delayed today, and this time it really is due to deadlines and fall-screener backlog. (Get used to that excuse. You’ll be hearing it a lot for a few weeks.) In the meantime, I refer you to my column in the brand-new TIME print magazine, about the Kid Nation Kontroversy. You’ve read a …

The TIME presidential candidates’ spouses poll, summarized from an entirely TV-centric perspective:

* Bill and Hillary watch Grey’s Anatomy together. Which demands the follow-up: Team Addison or Team Meredith?

* The Kuciniches do not watch television, just like President Bush. After the campaign, they’ll have to have George and Laura …

You know, it occurs to me that they’re going to be handing out Emmys Sunday night, and I haven’t done any walk-up posts. Bad TV blogger! I could blame magazine deadlines or fall-TV-screener overload (The War is 15 freaking hours! Ken Burns is trying to kill me!), but who would I be kidding? The truth is, I don’t give a crap about the …

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There was a time, before the rise of blogs, MySpace and Facebook, when people wanting to immerse themselves in the hyper-self-conscious navel-gazing of the self-aware and highly educated had to depend on the TV shows of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Now the people who brought you thirtysomething …

It is a momentous day for three major world religions. Muslims begin the celebration of Ramadan. My people mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. And in the dominant American religion of television worship, we observe the anniversary of the day, two years ago, that a plucky home-design-empire CEO strutted out of jail and onto her own …

Peter Ames Carlin at the Portland Oregonian (see the blogroll at right) is a regular read at Tuned In HQ, and his latest blog post proves why, hammering the condescending folk whine Little Boxes that opens the otherwise excellent Weeds.

When I first heard the Malvina Reynolds song at the opening of the pilot of Weeds, I cringed, …

So the Academy Awards have asked Jon Stewart back to host, despite the fact that his last outing, in 2006, drew fewer viewers than Chris Rock before him and Ellen DeGeneres after. Naturally, people are starting to ask why, including LA Weekly’s Nikki Finke. (To be specific, she asks: “Has the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences …

From the washingtonpost.com chat with Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush:

Baltimore: Does president bush ever comment on people like Keith Olbermann or other liberals who really hate him?

Robert Draper: Never! He is not one to pay attention of any kind to his critics. And for that matter, Bush told

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No sooner did time.com post my All-TIME 100 TV Shows than a package showed up at my office with a brand-new book: I Heart TV: Your Ultimate Companion to 100 Essential Shows, from the editors of TV Guide. Spooky! Well, not so much, since the book was messengered over by TV Guide’s publicist, but still, what are the odds?

So how do our …