Tuned In stalwart Chaddogg alerts me to what could be a great bit of news: EW’s Michael Ausiello reports that NBC and DirecTV are nearing a deal to keep Friday Night Lights on the air for two, count ’em two, more seasons. This would be service enough in the valiant field of Coming Up With Your TV Blogger’s Topics for Him, but Chaddogg …
Ratings: Sheldon Was Right
Another detail that last night’s Big Bang Theory got right was the overlap in the Venn diagram of Guys Who Own TiVos and Guys Who Watch Sci-Fi. This appears to be borne out in a bit of good ratings news for both Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (on which should-have-been-Echo Summer Glau appears). Reports James …
The Morning After: Endless Summer
I watched The Big Bang Theory for the first time in a long time last night, partly because Mrs. Tuned In was curious, partly because I’ve been reading other reviews that says the show has been on the upswing, partly because I’ll watch Summer Glau in anything.
I will say that the Big Bang I watched last night was better than what I …
HIMYM Watch: D Girl
Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
Big Love Watch: Cat's Out of the Bag
Before you read this post, check that your office safe is securely locked, then watch last night’s Big Love:
TV Tonight: Failin' Fillion
There’s a part of me that wants to just look the other way on ABCs Castle, wish the excellent Nathan Fillion well on finding continued employment and forget that it ever existed. But I suspect other Tuned Inlanders like Fillion as much as I do, and I owe it to them to lower their expectations, if not save them the hour altogether.
An Hourlong Nightly News. Probably Won't Happen. Should It?
Prominent media insiders–by which I mean “my editors”–are excited this morning over a brief passage in a New York Times article about the success of the NBC news division:
NBC’s surge in the evening has been strong enough for the news division president, Steve Capus, to suggest that NBC is positioned to be the first network to
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Programming Note
Since I posted on the season 2 debut of Breaking Bad Friday, feel free to use this post to discuss it. Also, this is as good a time as any to discuss a crisis affecting Tuned In: There is just too damn much good TV on the weekends for me to blog it all, without hiring either a personal assistant or a second father for the Tuned In …
The Morning After: Chekhov Is Russian for Karma
Brief spoilers for last night’s The Amazing Race coming up after the jump:
BSG Watch: Down With the Ship
Spoilers for Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:
TV Weekend: Re-Breaking Bad
The first season of Breaking Bad was truncated by the writers’ strike at seven episodes out of a planned ten, though this did not stop Bryan Cranston for winning an Emmy for his portrayal of Walter White, dying chem teacher …
30 Rock Watch: Cobweb of Rainbows
Brief spoilers for last night’s 30 Rock after the jump:
Corporate Press Release Theater: Dancing Without the Stars
Jewel and Nancy O’Dell have both withdrawn from the next edition of DWTS, each citing “injuries.” An excerpt from ABC’s statement follows without comment. Because there are just no words: