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I did an interview yesterday with Brian Lehrer, who hosts an excellent daily talk show at public radio station WNYC. Those of you outside The Capital of the Universe, as well as New Yorkers who were for some reason not glued to the radio at 10:40 a.m., can find the streaming audio here. I’m just as annoying as in print, but with sound …
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Cavemen is evolving (or devolving), out of sight of critics. Gale Adler / ABC
We’re introducing a new feature here at Tuned In, High Quality Show Alert!, which seeks to inform you about upcoming TV series that are apparently so awesome, so incredibly good, that the networks are refusing to screen them in advance for critics. Because …
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Michael Vartan was on Alias. Joshua Malina was on Sports Night and The West Wing. Dylan McDermott starred in The Practice; and Christopher Titus, in his underrated self-titled Fox sitcom. You could easily see these men leaving those shows and saying, “Well, that’s it. I’ll never do a series this good again.”
In ABC’s Big Shots, they set …
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It’s Thursday morning weigh-in time, with four count them four new network premieres to evaluate. Should Addison have stayed in Seattle? Should Starbuck have stayed in space? Who won the quirk-off between the eccentric rich folks on Dirty Sexy Money and the eccentric detective on Life?
Also interested in any …
After my post this morning about the Christoph Buchel imbroglio, Joe Thompson, the director of Mass MoCA, sent me an e-mail with a defense of his museum’s actions. Thompson also wants to make clear that he does not agree with claims made by Buchel’s lawyer Donn Zaretsky that the judge’s ruling in the case amounts to a finding that the …
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In today’s reviews, we’re taking on the big trends of fall 2007 one by one. Shows about people with superpowers: check. Shows about rich people: check. (Shows about nerds: already did that.) And now we come to NBC’s Life and the last, and most disturbing, trend of the fall: Shows with interesting premises that, …
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My chief complaint about Dirty Sexy Money is that no one took my suggestion and changed that stupid title. However long it stays on the air, I will continue to think of this show as crazysexycool. (Abbreviating it DSM does me no good; my mind translates it as DMSR.)
I may just have to get used to the TLC/Prince allusions, though, because …
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Judging by the accumulated comments over the summer, Bionic Woman looks like the most anticipated show among the Tuned In community. A Battlestar Galactica producer taking another ’70s staple and putting a darker, modern, BSG-style spin on it? ’70s transistors upgraded to nanobots? How could it not rock?
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Just a few days after a judge said that Mass MoCA could show Christoph Buchel’s disputed installation in an unfinished state, the museum has decided simply to clean the thing out altogether. Geoff Edgers has the story at The Boston Globe. Over at the museum’s website, Mass MoCA Director Joseph Thompson expresses his desire to move on …
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The months of hype are over and the first Tuesday night of the new season is history–let’s have your reviews of Reaper, Cane, returning shows like House, the third night of The War, etc.
Previews of Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money and Life coming up in this space. In the meantime, here’s what I thought …
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A reminder, to anyone who still needs one, to catch the season’s best comedy and best action show, Reaper, on The CW. If I have one complaint–and I always have one complaint–it’s that I don’t know if this sweet and hilarious show has the bigger themes and depth of characters to make it another Buffy. …
The Associated Press is reporting that, as expected, right after the Getty Museum signed its deal with Italy promising to return 40 contested antiquities, the Italians dropped their civil case against the former Getty Curator Marion True. But, say the Italians, for now the separate criminal case against True will still be going …
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It’s fall premiere season, yet all I want to do is write about car commercials. (Maybe because I’m in the middle of buying one of these. Warning: does not actually transform.)
This morning I complained about Nissan using a Clash song to sell the new Rogue during Heroes (scroll down). So why did that bug me, while I find this Magnetic …
