I realize I’m a little late here to be commenting on the most recent episode of Breaking Bad, but first I wanted to take a day and mull over a question that’s been rattling around in my head since the series returned for its …
Lost Finale Means Big Answers For Fans – And Big Business For ABC
In this age of DVR, Hulu and TiVO, live TV events are increasingly rare. But advertisers are betting on the fact that fans of Lost are going to be tuned in live May 23, for the much-anticipated final episode. And when we say betting, we mean betting big.
AdAge is reporting that a 30-second commercial spot during the Lost finale is …
Bad PR Alert: Kate Gosselin Suffers Prime-Time Dancing Meltdown
Kate Gosselin’s been working hard – very hard – to rehabilitate and purify her public image in the wake of her nasty divorce. There have been magazine cover shoots, sit-downs on The View, and yet none of that may stick with her fans as much as her in-your-face meltdown on last night’s Dancing With the …
Bring Out The Pitchforks! Stewart, Colbert Slam Party of Incitement
The party of no has become the party of incitement – or at least that seems to be the consensus of the comedic political watchdogs over at Comedy Central. It was the first night back on the air since the passage of the health care bill for both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and both hosts came out swinging against a sub-set …
The Caprica Saga: Finally Adding Some Punch to the Philosophy
Greetings, Tuned In universe. It is I, Jim’s lowly temporary replacement, schlepped over from Techland to fill the gaps while Poniewozik recharges his brain for Lost’s last lap.
I thought I should begin my short-term tenure by posting a quick note on the series I’ve been covering most religiously for Techland – the series that …
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Programming Note, and a Very Special Guest
Guess what, you lucky people: I’m on vacation next week! I’ll be staycationing in Brooklyn, with the Tuned In Jrs. on spring break, so I’ll still be available to review the American Idol performances (because I couldn’t in good conscience inflict that on someone else) and Lost (because, you know, it’s Lost).
Robo-James, however, is …
Top 10 Time-Travel Movies
For half a century, time travel has been one of the cinema’s most reliable plot devices. TIME picks the best of the bunch.
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Modern Family Watch: "I Feel Like I Ate the Sun!"
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It’s probably too late to be posting on Wednesday’s Modern Family, but I thought I should briefly put up something (1) to say, for the record, that “Starry Night” was one of my favorite episodes yet and (2) to quote Cameron’s line (see clip above), which is still making me laugh out loud two …
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Report: White House Crashers to Be Punished With National TV Fame
The Daily Beast is reporting that America’s favorite couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, having finagled their way into a White House party and the national headlines last fall, will in fact be regular stars on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., the reality show they were auditioning for when they crashed the news.
Isn’t Bravo …
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Thursday Comedies Watch: Whuck?
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Dead Tree Alert: Lunch Is a Battlefield
My column in this week’s print TIME looks at Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the Madonna-and-whore complex of American food TV, and the reasons food has become another front in the culture war—and a surrogate, among other things, for the health-care debate. (Glenn Beck, of course, makes an appearance in the column, touting a …
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Robert Culp, 1930-2010
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Actor Robert Culp died yesterday after a fall at age 79. I’ll leave it to critics of the Baby Boomer era to eulogize his work on the supercool ’60s espionage show I Spy. My more personal memory of him is for his work as Agent Bill Maxwell on the ’70s superhero comedy-drama The …
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R.I.P., At the Movies
At the Movies, the TV show that brought Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel and their thumbs to the masses, is being canceled. The series will finish its run in August. It’s a sad moment, at least if you’re a critic, or simply someone whose love for the movies was inspired by Siskel and Ebert and their passions for the medium. As much heat as the …