Tuned InUncategorized
Last night’s Super Bowl was the most watched program.
Period. Of the night, the week, the year, the Christian era, you name it—at 106.5 million viewers, it broke the record held for 27 years by the finale of M*A*S*H. (Which means that that many people, give or take a few million bathroom breaks, watched that crappy Dodge ad.)
As I’m …
Tuned InAdvertising
Toyota has been making a show of contrition for the acceleration problem that led to a massive recall of several of its models, buying a humbled Super Bowl ad and apologizing publicly. But one group of its dealers is working hard to blow any positive credit the company may have earned, pulling its ads from ABC stations to punish the …
Tuned InUncategorized
Super Bowl ad duty kept me up late last night without time for Big Love (which, by the way, just got a fifth-season pickup!), and some more pressing duties mean I won’t be able to review “Sins of the Father” soon. So feel free to post your thoughts here, and if I catch up in time, I’ll update this post with mine.
Tuned InAdvertising
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RyPamyWotM]
My quickie reviews of last night’s Super Bowl ads (all of them, with a few exceptions, 68 in total) are up at time.com. I grade them not as an advertising professional but simply as a guy who watches TV and buys stuff, though I try to take the effectiveness of the message into …
Tuned InUncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfpIYXOGgLM]
This Sunday is That Sunday: as usual, I’ll be watching the game for the ads, and time.com will post my complete (or as near as I can get it) postgame review of all the commercials sometime overnight Sunday.
There will also be a football game! And a halftime show, with The Who, whom …
Tuned InUncategorized
FoxNews.com has posted the entire unedited interview of Jon Stewart by Bill O’Reilly on its website, and if you’re the least bit interested in media criticism, or Fox News criticism in particular, or discussions of politics and febrile American culture, or just tough but respectful debate, you really need to watch it. (By the way, if you …
Tuned InUncategorized
I’ve been waiting for the Internet to do this for me, and now it has: someone has stitched together a side-by-side video of the initial airplane scene from the pilot of Lost and the just-ever-so-different version from the season 6 premiere. Now you can review the two like one of those puzzles in the old Highlights for Children magazine, …
Tuned InUncategorized
Tuned InUncategorized
Spoilers for last night’s “winter finale” of Fringe after the jump:
Tuned InAdvertising
Tom Campbell claims that he is a sheep. But I, Carly Fiorina, maintain that he is in fact a wolf! And a pig! And a man wearing a sheep costume! Tom Campbell—I declare thee ManWolfSheepPig! (Thus doing Al Gore’s South Park nemesis one animal better.)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7HiQRM7BA]
The bonus of this California …
Tuned InAdvertising
…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:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evNWC8tRKNE]
One more preview after the jump. What are you looking …
Tuned In
[vodpod id=Video.2989495&w=425&h=350&fv=]
OK, guys, enough with the comedy on Thursday nights. I’m serious. It’s getting ridiculous.
First NBC nailed down its comedy block with the additions of Parks and Recreation and stronger-every-episode Community. Then FX added animated spy comedy Archer. Now Comedy Central has scheduled the third …
Tuned InUncategorized
Last night we saw one of the best debates about media and politics in general, and Fox News in particular, that I’ve seen on TV in a while. That it was conducted by a professional talk-TV bloviator (Bill O’Reilly) and a late-night comedian (Jon Stewart) is nothing that should make anyone in the rest of the media feel especially good. …
