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Yesterday and very early this morning, Charlie Sheen continued not going away. The sitcom star / cautionary tale / performance artist started a Twitter account yesterday afternoon; as of this writing, he’s pushing 800,000 followers. And to listen to Sheen, you’ve just got to know that he take …
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I was eager for NBC’s Parenthood when it debuted last season, but I found that it settled into a temperate zone: good and well-performed enough to be unobjectionable, but not absorbing enough that I felt compelled to keep up with it. Critic-triage took hold and I lost the thread of the show going into the second season. On the …
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American Idol entered the semifinals last night, as the twelve remaining guys battled for five (non-wild-card) spots in the final and the new judging panel strutted its stuff for a primetime voting audience for the first time this season. After the jump, my top five picks (based only on last night’s performances) and one wild …
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Over at sister blog Healthland, TIME’s John Cloud has returned to the House Watch, where he finds the medical procedural turning to an old favorite theme: lies, and the patients who tell them:
The episode opens with a man named Bert scrubbing a floor drenched in blood. His wife calls, and he tells the show’s first lie. Bert says he’s in
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At this point, you could pretty much do the cast diagram of a typical Dancing With the Stars season yourself: some current/former athletes, a kids’ star, an old peoples’ star, some reality-show personalities, a where-are-they-now star, a minor pop/country singer or two—plus, in recent years, a wild card, like a controversial …
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After an absence from TV interviews of several hours, Charlie Sheen went on CNN last night to favor Piers Morgan with a last-minute, live hourlong interview. And if you were concerned that Morgan would do the same kind of softball interviews that his predecessor Larry King did, this one proved …
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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations returned on Travel Channel last night with a moving, sometimes discomfiting visit to post-earthquake Haiti. I’ve always liked No Reservations, not just for Bourdain’s foulmouthed sense of humor but because it approaches food and travel as more than entertainments. It starts from the premise that what …
There were precious few surprises at the 83rd Oscars on the night the Academy tried to appeal to a younger demographic. But a movie set in the 1930s was the big winner
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I am going to try to limit the amount of Charlie Sheen I bring you at Tuned In, but TMZ just livestreamed a fascinatingly strange interview with Sheen from his own backyard. Above is part one; the whole thing is posted at TMZ.
A few thoughts:
* I was torn …
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Did Charlie Sheen hire Rod Blagojevich’s media handler? Over the past week, as you’re well aware, Sheen self-immolated, lambasting CBS and Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre for putting his sitcom on hiatus for the actor to get …
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Spoilers for Friday’s Fringe follow:
When Fringe debuted, there was the by-now-usual speculation as to whether it might become (whatever this means) the next Lost. (This is the typical rite of passage now for any network sci-fi-inflected drama, but especially one that comes from J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot.) At first it wasn’t and that …
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When they were first announced, James Franco and Anne Hathaway seemed like a strange pair to host the Oscars, movie stars stepping into a role most often filled by comedians or TV hosts. But as the Academy Awards began last night, it looked like the unusual move had paid off. For about three minutes. Franco and Hathaway opened the show …
After cooling down from the nonstop thrills of the Oscar broadcast, watch last night’s very special episode of Big Love and join us at the reception.
The vast majority of people on TV—whether on a dramatic series or sitcom, a reality show or a political talk show—are encouraged, indeed obliged to express themselves in the starkest, …
