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"The New York Times reports that NBC has
struck a deal to acquire a ton of programming
from outside producers..." Eep.
Oooh, this should be a good way to
blow off some work this afternoon. TV Guide has
come up with its list of the 10 Best TV Pilots in the issue on newsstands now. Their list, my knee-jerk cavils and...
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So while we were away, Sen. Hillary Clinton
apparently made an ill-advised reference to the RFK assassination
(and the June timing thereof) by way of explaining her continuing run in the Democratic primary. And apparently Keith Olbermann had a thing...
So Katie Couric is leaving CBS earlier than
planned, unless she's not. The Wall Street Journal is
reporting that Couric may leave her third-place newscast by early next year, well before her contract expires in 2011; CBS is pushing back...
The writers' strike is over, right? That's what
I'm reading in the papers, and Jon Stewart made
his first joke of the night about it. But if you expected the Bruce-Vilanchists of Hollywood to storm back and prove their importance...
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:...
...and baby makes six. / MARIO PEREZ/ABC SPOILER
ALERT: Before you read this post, why don't you
watch this very informative video that'll answer some of your questions, and I'll take care of some business....
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Torv (center, wearing brain-melding gizmo) with Noble and
Jackson. / Mark Ben Holzberg/FOX 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, ...
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There is no escape. / ABC/DISNEY CHANNEL All
parents of American tween-aged children, unless they are totally
uncool and unfair and hate their kids, have seen to it that they have access to Disney Channel On Demand. (The fact that...
TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan e-mails this dispatch from
J.J. Abrams' screening of the full pilot of Fringe
(see my writeup of an earlier critics' screening) at Comic-Con: The J.J. Abrams love is ardent at Comic-Con this year, where back-to-back ...
From Vesuvio to Lutece. / AMC SPOILER ALERT:
Before you read this post, crack open a bag
of Utz—may I recommend The Crab Chip—and watch Mad Men....
Following on the heels of that Olympics fireworks
fiasco comes a New York Times report that the
nine-year-old girl who sang a patriotic ballad in the opening ceremonies, while floating suspended from wires, was performing to another girl's vocals. The...
While I (and others before me) have been
advocating that people writing about politics should disclose their
votes, journalism has not exactly followed en masse. But the author of US Weekly's controversial Sarah Palin "Babies, Lies & Scandal" cover ...
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't watched last night's
Heroes--hey! Stop drinking that coffee and look at me
when I'm talking to you! Paul Drinkwater / NBC The downside to all that closure that Heroes bends over backwards to give you...
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...
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch
last night's Heroes. And FINISH YOUR CEREAL. In this
very special episode, a major character dies... for an entire commercial break! Oh, right. That's what a good episode of Heroes looks like....
You didn't think I'd let the year end
without doing this list, did you? To hell with
the holiday spirit! 1. The Writers' Strike. You need not have a side in this confict to hate it, so long as your...
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Francis Specker/CBS Through the magic of TiVo, I've
just powered through the rest of last night's first
strike-era late-night (or, in my case, early-to-mid-morning) talk shows. My impressions: Jay Leno: If the return was largely an expectations game, ...
It is probably not in the spirit of
writerly solidarity to say it, but Conan O'Brien doing
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" on Friday's Late Night was most awesome thing I've seen in late night since the strike, and for that...
People sometimes criticize pundits for behaving as if
elections were all about them. But Chris Matthews of
MSNBC had a special treat last night: he was told, on his own network, that last night's upset decision in New Hampshire really...









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