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Friday Night Lights airs the first of its last three episodes (of this season! let’s think positive!) tonight. There haven’t been any decisions made about the show’s future–there aren’t many decisions being made about anything given the writers’ strike–but FNL’s continued survival is one of the few and best …
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Pick up your local newspaper. Read the bylines on the front page (the ones that don’t say “From Wire Service Reports”). One out of four of the names you read are planning on getting the hell out of the newspaper business. This is the finding of a Ball State professor, who did a study finding that newspaper reporters are cynical about …
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If I were a good blogger, the kind who plans well, prepares ahead and plots all manner of traffic-generating events, I would have prepped some kind of gigundous Loststravaganza for the week leading up to the return of the Tuned In community’s most hallowed show. I am not a good blogger. In lieu of the fabulous Lost Welcome Back Party I …
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Mix yourself a Manhattan and fire up a Lucky Strike, baby: Mad Men is free to go back into production on its second season. The Writers Guild announced another interim side deal, this time with Lionsgate studio, which produces Mad Men as well as Weeds. One of the feared side effects of the strike is that, even after it’s settled, it …
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While you were watching Chuck last night, I was finally catching up on Project Runway, then watching the MSNBC Republican debate, which attempted to answer the immortal question: “How many ways can John McCain work the phrase ‘my friends’ into a …
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The Morte de Television continues tonight, as NBC airs the final two pre-strike episodes of Chuck. I would say that I’m watching them, but I’ll probably TiVo them instead, and ration them out a few minutes at a time, like a nuclear-war survivor parceling out his remaining stash of tinned beans. Rolling it over my tongue, eyes closed, …
They got a rude awakening Thursday morning at four museums in southern California — federal agents on their doorsteps with search warrants. The agents who swarmed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego were looking for …
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I finally caught up with the third episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I may be forced to revise my unimpressed initial review of the show. I’m still completely underwhelmed with Thomas Dekker as John and find the writing–especially Sarah’s voiceovers–too self-serious for its own good. But I’m getting drawn in to …
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Oh, Moment of Truth, how could you disappoint me so? From the get-go, Fox’s lie-detector game show sounded like the ultimate concept in trash TV: essentially, an amped-up, primetime version of The Jerry Springer Show or Dr. Phil disguised as a $500,000 competition. By asking contestants uncomfortable questions in front of their loved …
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SPOILER ALERT: There are no spoilers in this post.
You may be wondering why you don’t get many Project Runway writeups here at Tuned in. If you’re not, well, I just went and wondered for you anyway. I watch the show religiously, but I …
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Fox has not sent out advance screeners of The Moment of Truth. This has not stopped critics from panning it in advance on the basis of its premise: contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked 21 intensely personal and embarrassing …
Since it opened last November I’ve been paying visits every so often to the Damien Hirst installation that occupies much of the glass enclosed lobby of Lever House. When it was completed in …
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I traded e-mails about this with Tim Goodman a while back, and he beat me to blogging on the subject, but I’m not too proud to be late…
So the strike is going to end. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but it will end. Your shows will return. But will you still care?
Granted, as a TV critic I’m more jaded than …
