Just a reminder that Michael Grunwald, Karen Tumulty and I will liveblogging tonight’s final Presidential debate at the usual location, currently occupied by a threatening-looking countdown clock. Whenever I look at it, I have an urge to decide whether to cut the green wire or the yellow wire.

Your predictions about the questions, …

Tonight, Comedy Central debuts David Allan Grier’s Chocolate News, the melanin-enriched newsmagazine partner to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, attempting three years after Chappelle’s Show to launch a counterpart to the aforementioned, more-vanilla news satires. First, the good news. The following monologue, in which DAG exhorts …

Before last month’s Project Runway fashion show in Bryant Park, I ran into Laura Bennett, the past Runway finalist who was cheerfully nonchalant about having a career and six kids. (My favorite quote of hers about adding a new baby to the family: “Just throw it on the pile!”) It was just after Sarah Palin was nominated for VP, and I …

Over at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder has an interesting post about a partisan dispute over press coverage of campaign events and the whackjobs who attend them:

So crazy liberals at Obama-Biden events occasionally make fun of Sarah Palin in crude terms, and at times, a more than a few folks have yelled that McCain is a warmonger and a

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I recently got a screener for Fox’s midseason drama Lie to Me, starring Tim Roth as a cynical genius who studies “deception detection”: the science of noticing tiny “microexpressions” in a person’s face to determine whether they’re lying, what they’re thinking or how they’re feeling.

The show is yet another example of the TV …

So last night saw the debut of My Own Worst Enemy. (To what Mediaweek described as “sluggish” ratings.) Is it your new best friend? Your thoughts on that, TV sports or any other Monday-night tube welcomed.

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get your flail and watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.

TIME’s movie critic (and TV whiz in his own right) Richard Corliss sent along this e-mail about last night’s Mad Men, which I’d noted played up the fascination/leeriness of Americans for Europeans in the early ’60s:

The touchstone was LA DOLCE VITA, Fellini’s divine-decadence drama that sold Americans on the notion of Europe as a

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Those of you not in the mood for action vehicles for Christian Slater (that are also action vehicles for actual vehicles), and who have not gotten enough politics on TV already, might want to check out The Return of the War Room on Sundance tonight. A sequel to the renowned documentary about the rapid-response team that helped elect Bill …

NBC’s drama / car commercial My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater, debuts tonight. Pro: The pilot was much better than I expected it would be. Con: I expected it would stink.

Deadlines on a couple non-review pieces kept me from doing a full-fledged review, so I hope to come back to this after a …