TIME.com: Tuned In

Fey Accompli: Most of Her Viewers Skipped Palin's Debate

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:53:06 -0500

Media-research group Integrated Media Management Inc., which tracks viewership of media on TV and mobile devices, sent a study on the audience for Tina Fey's impressions of Sarah Palin. First, the TV-wonk news, which contends that most of the audience...

Office Watch: Lemme Hear Your Body Talk

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:22:39 -0500

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch Cookie Monster Sings "Chocolate Rain" on YouTube, then watch last night's The Office....

A Different House of Mouse

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:44 -0500

QUBO NBC has signed a deal to bring one of the most awesome preschooler's cartoons ever, Maisy, to its Qubo kids' cartoons block in November. For those of you who don't have Noggin, where it previously aired (or don't have...

Obama TV: The Big Question

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:21:15 -0500

Why do it? What will he air in that half hour? A few half-baked theories, from a political non-expert: * A massive pretaped ad—along the line of The Man from Hope—to try to close the deal / familiarize himself to...

Dead Tree Alert: Palin vs. "Palin"

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:22:15 -0500

In the current TIME, my column is about a favorite topic at Tuned In these past couple weeks: Tina Fey's Sarah Palin character, and its advantages and disadvantages for the real Palin. Obviously, there have been scads of political impressions...

The Ratings Drought: Where's the Next Roseanne?

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:03:40 -0500

So we've pretty much established that nobody's watching anything this season. New shows are middling at best in the ratings, relaunched shows like Chuck and ABC's Wednesday have cratered—even hits like House and Grey's are not doing so hot. OK,...

The Morning After: Don't Quit Your Night Job

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:15:49 -0500

NBC Photo: Dana Edelson Last night, I watched the Weekend Update Thursday edition of Saturday Night Live, immediately after watching The Office (on DVD) and The Daily Show (on Tivo). Woo boy, was that a mistake. I have come to...

More Obama TV

James Poniewozik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:28:40 -0500

Barack Obama has finished a deal to air his half-hour campaign pitch on NBC as well Oct. 29, James Hibberd reports. In the process, he will do what Pushing Daisies could not: knock Knight Rider off the air. Hibberd further...

Obama TV

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:31:58 -0500

Reports The Hollywood Reporter, Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime on CBS on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Obama is close to a deal with NBC as well, it says, and may strike one with Fox, depending on a possible...

If You Can't Say Something Nice...

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:44:33 -0500

Kath and Kim seems to be on its way to being the second-worst-reviewed new show next to Knight Rider (you go, Ben Silverman!), so I feel like I should say the one good thing about it that I neglected to...

More People Are Watching Knight Rider Than Pushing Daisies*

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:13:39 -0500

There's not much to add to that. Weep with me, mankind. *That is, "than are watching the television program Pushing Daisies." Not "than are pushing daisies." The legions of history's dead fortunately still vastly outnumber Knight Rider's anemic 2.2 rating....

TV Tonight: British (Commonwealth) Invasion

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:58 -0500

Tonight sees the debuts of the American adaptions of Life on Mars, Eleventh Hour, and Kath and Kim, which are from Britain, Britain and Australia respectively and are surprisingly good, a bunch of hoo-hah and painful, respectively. Busy with a...

Dr. Phil to Give Credit Crisis Tough Love

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:35:48 -0500

How bad has the financial crisis gotten? Today's Dr. Phil devotes itself to the economy, with a roster of guests including CNBC's James Cramer and economist/game-show-host Ben Stein. To be fair, it's not as if Dr. Phil just discovered personal...

Project Runway Watch: Sympathy for the Devil

James Poniewozik — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:08:06 -0500

Brief spoilers for Project Runway coming up after the jump:...

Number Ones Are Number Two

James Poniewozik — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:59:05 -0500

The numbers are in for last night's debate and the winner is... still Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. John McCain and Barack Obama drew over 63 million viewers last night, according to Nielsen, but that was still under the nearly...