Kids: always wear your seat belt! / Eric McCandless/CBS
SPOILER ALERT: Before you break the date-time continuum by reading this post, watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.
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Danger is My Business
Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation will issue its annual list of 11 sites around the U.S. that it considers to be the ones most threatened by development, neglect or whatever other forces devour the past. Their hope is that by calling attention to places in jeopardy they can mobilize people to protect them. Which means: …
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Trailerama: 90210, Dollhouse
Courtesy of the YouTubes, The CW offers a preview of what the new 90210 will look like. Or at least the title sequence! And the automotive product placements!
Meanwhile I had been waiting to post Fox’s trailer of Dollhouse, but they were disappearing as soon as they appeared. (There may be legitimate reasons that Fox doesn’t want …
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Dead Electron Alert: Summer Preview
Eleswhere at time.com, I and other Time critics were enlisted to blurb four things in our respective fields that we’re curious about / looking forward to this summer. Readers love this, because it allows them to plan their summer entertainment calendars! Advertisers love it, because it means they get critics to write quasi-positive …
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Upfront Rundown: The Big Trends
The 2008-09 upfronts are ancient history, except for the actual selling the ads part. Here’s a rundown of some of the major trends we saw last week.
* How Do We Pay For This Stuff? There was a sharp, networks-wide acknowledgement of the fact that fewer people are watching live, primetime TV; consensus that this will mean the …
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The Morning After: Basestar Galactica
BSG jumps away for two weeks with a cliffhanger ending. / SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
SPOILER ALERT: Discussion of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the, er, jump:
Homeland Insecurity
Parade — Hoboken, New Jersey, Frank, 1955/ROBERT FRANK, STEIDL PUBLISHERS
This month two of the most influential American photo books of all time are being reissued. Robert Frank’s The Americans, first published in France in 1958, is one of the great turning points in the history of the medium.
Newly Completed Tract House, Colorado
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Upfronts Roundup: You Have the Floor
Now that upfronts are over, I’m on deadline for a couple different print pieces and must retreat into my cobwebbed, candlelit study to compose. But in the meantime I thought I’d post an open thread for your reactions to the week’s announcements.
Also, feel free to ask any questions about any news I may have omitted—I know I tend to …
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Lost Business: Spoiler-Free Zone
According to Lostpedia there are—as will inevitably happen—season-finale spoilers floating around out there. I almost don’t want to post about this at all, because Tuned Inlanders are reliably great about avoiding spoilers and nobody (as far as I know) has posted anything like that here. That said, since we’ve got to weeks to wait …
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Fox: Selling Admen on… Fewer Ads?
Anna Torv (right) investigates strange biology in Fringe. / Mark Ben Holzberg/FOX
TV critics tend to focus so much on new programming that you might forget that the upfronts are, foremost, about selling ads. But though Fox had debuts to announce from a pair of big-name TV creators, arguably the biggest news it made had to do with the …
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The Morning After: Skyrockets in Flight
Out(?) with the old: Lieberstein and Ryan. / NBC Photo: Chris Haston
Journey back with me to fall 2007. Miley Cyrus was innocent; Hillary and Rudy were shoo-ins to win their parties’ nominations; and The Office was kicking off its season with several hourlong episodes that were bloated, slack and not up to the show’s standard.
It’s May …
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Lostwatch: We All Know the Story
The Oceanic Six meet the press. / ABC
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, enter the greenhouse through a hole, find the patch of anthuriums, flip the switch behind them and watch last night’s Lost.
Bad News About the Barnes
It looks like the judge in the court battle over moving the Barnes collection out of Merion, Pa. won’t be revisiting his earlier ruling that the art could be relocated to Philadelphia.
Judge Stanley R. Ott of the Montgomery County Orphans Court, which has jurisdiction over the Barnes trust, decided today to dismiss the petitions of the …