Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
You would think, with all the buzz surrounding its big marquee dramas, that ABC would not have much work to do in drawing up a new schedule. But ABC's lineup is a little like a Central American oligarchy: there is...
Read ABC Does a Dozen (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
COURTESY NBCHow do you know a network is in bad shape? When it starts telling you how much the TV critics love it. Kicking off NBC's upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall, when a more robust network might have...
Read NBC Throws a Hail Mary (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
You're a once-powerful, now struggling TV network, one of whose many, many problems is a late-night comedy show, still pulling in viewers but widely regarded as mediocre for most of the past decade or two. What's the solution? More of...
Read Live?No, Taped?from New York (and Los Angeles), It's... (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
Tuned In will be spending this week at the upfronts -- the week, once every year, when the broadcast networks rent out Manhattan venues like Radio City Music Hall and Lincoln Center to unveil their fall schedules to their advertisers....
Read Upfronts Week: Here Comes Another Perfect TV Season (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
There have been several insinuations over the years that the voting on American Idol is rigged. If it is, we learned last night that it is not rigged nearly well enough, as America chose to vote leather-lunged rocker Chris Daughtry--long...
Read American Idol Fails to Tinker with Taylor (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading now if you don't want to learn that last night's show revealed that Eko is actually the reincarnation of the polar bear killed in the pilot episode. Just kidding. Although it would be cool. But seriously,...
Read Lostwatch: ? and the Mysterians (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
Tuesday's overnight Nielsens are in, and it turns out that four times as many people would rather hear Taylor Hicks bleat his lungs out with a torturous version of Elvis' In the Ghetto than watch people cough their lungs out...
Read American Idol Beats American Viral (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 1:16 am, Over one day old
If you're like most people, when you think comedy you think one thing: an interminable, bloody military occupation deteriorating into civil war. At least that appears to be the hope of two cable channels, which are separately developing comedies about...
Read Iraqi Wacky: From War to Sitcom (Links)
Posted Friday April 14, 2006, 1:56 am, Over one day old
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers, so be alert. To the long list of theories about the island, add this: It's a hospital. Last night, we learned that whatever mystical/magnetic mojo is pulsing down beneath the hatch cured Rose of...
Read Lostwatch: Lourdes-by-the-Sea (Links)
Posted Friday April 14, 2006, 1:56 am, Over one day old
The good thing about the broadcast-decency-regulation movement is that, as vast conspiracies go, it's not too well organized. Last month, the FCC lurched forward, with an unprecedented volley of fines for decency violations. Now one of Capitol Hill's biggest decency...
Read Are the Decency Cops Backing Off? (Links)