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NBC Comedies Watch: You Sleigh Me
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NBC Comedies Watch: HD Is a Cruel Mistress
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NBC Thursday Watch: Green Comedy Machine
NBC’s Thursday sitcoms observed Green Is Universal Week in ways larger (subplots in Community and 30 Rock) and smaller (Recyclops and a “carbon neutral” reference in The Office, um, shooting at nature in Parks and Recreation). Time to review, recap and recycle!
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NBC Sitcoms Watch: Four on the Floor
As much as we all like to beat on NBC lately, its Thursday comedy lineup is—whatever weekly ups and downs it has—the most consistently solid sitcom block it’s had in years, if not ever, without a single Stark Raving Mad-like filler show in the bunch. That leaves a so-much-to-cover-so-little-time problem, though, so this week, I’m …
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So What's the Best Comedy on TV Right Now?
That TV-critics’ Twitter debate I mentioned in my Modern Family post this morning was kicked off by a simple but tough question: what’s the best comedy on TV right now? I don’t want to misrepresent anyone by saying who picked what and why, but it’s something I’m wrestling with right now, as I start to work on my best-of lists for 2009. …
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Halloween Comedy Watch: Who Wants a Chuckle?
Last night, each of NBC’s Thursday comedies aired episodes that were, more or less, Halloween-themed. In the spirit of the holiday, I have something for each of them! But who gets a fun-size Snickers and who gets a rock?
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Our Thursday Problem
The emerging consensus in Tuned Inland is that Thursday is becoming a problem. A high-class problem, yes: too much good (or at least potentially good) TV. I don’t even watch Grey’s Anatomy, yet at this point, I find myself finishing my time-shifted Thursday-night programming somewhere around the following Monday—especially since Mrs. …
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Office Watch: Double Your Displeasure
Spoilers for last night’s Office (and, briefly, Parks and Recreation and Community) after the jump:
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The Morning After: Community Organizing, Fringe Media
I’ll have a post about last night’s The Office and Parks and Recreation up a bit later this morning. I’ve already weighed in on last night’s debut of Community, though, and while I enjoyed Fringe for its Walterliciousness—and the awesome sight of Olivia flying through the windshield—it stayed far enough away from the big reveal at …
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Community: Chevy Chase Is On Fire
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I get to the set of NBC’s Community a little bit before sunset, the night they are going to set Chevy Chase on fire. The new comedy—about a misfit study group at a community college—does its location shooting on a real campus in Koreatown. Tonight, they’re shooting some nighttime shots …
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Test Pilot: Community
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …