2011-08-17

Tuned In

Have you ever plopped down on the couch, in front of the television, to watch a new show that you've heard about, only to realize thirty minutes in that this show is so terrifically uninteresting that you may call up the producers and ask for your half-hour back? Trust me, we all have had to go through this miserable ritual to find a good show.

Hopefully, some (or all!) of those television trials can be resolved with the help of Tuned In, a "blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik," (TIMES). Here's a short piece from Poniewozik's post, 'TV Tonight: The Hour,":

"AMC may have had a hell of a time figuring out whether to bring Mad Men back, for how much money and at what length, but other networks are not hesitating (despite the show's relatively paltry ratings) to put their own versions of Mad Men on the air—or, at least, their own versions of social and personal drama set in a highly stylized midcentury-modernist past. ABC's Pan Am is Mad Men plus airplanes. NBC's The Playboy Club is Mad Men minus the ambivalence about the role of women."

Interested in reading about some new television shows (whether that review is good, or bad!)? Tune in to Tuned In!
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15 comments:

  1. skyAugust 17, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    Like... Everyday I plop down on the couch, in front of the television and this happens...
    Nice tip! Thanks =D

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  2. AnonymousAugust 17, 2011 at 11:53 PM

    Seems pretty cool. I'll check it out

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  3. William MainAugust 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    Yeah, I know exactly how you feel. I'm the same. And I'll be checking that out too.

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  4. Charles GodfreyAugust 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    This is exactly why I don't watch TV. I wait till the shows come out on DVD and if everybody is saying the show is worth it then I watch it.

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  5. GenjoteAugust 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    Gonna check it out, looks interesting, thank you for the info ^^

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  6. Hento the loony repairman :DAugust 18, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    i watch my shows on the internetthats how it shoudl be with ads and everything XD

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  7. thetruthaboutGENETICSAugust 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM

    I love movies and TV shows set in the 50's. Truly the Golden Age of America.

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  8. MagnumAugust 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    I'm afraid that even some proper reviews are simply not enough to keep me in front of the TV. The only TV show I currently watch is Top Gear, really. Besides, if you are worried something may bore you to death, it's good to get the newest HD TV with rewinding/fast forward option. Really comes in handy.

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  9. ShonaAugust 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM

    i hardly watch tv :o

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  10. pvAugust 21, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    man i havent watched tv in months now, the internet is my form of entertainment

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  11. This GuyAugust 21, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    Mostly. I never listen to critics. I watch the previews and if it looks like they are forcing the funny or forcing the serious, I don't watch it. It's the stuff that looks stupid or weird that always do good

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  12. BinderAugust 21, 2011 at 11:08 PM

    Yea Siting on the couch just sitting their doing nothing... It is fun :)

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  13. paulzAugust 22, 2011 at 2:03 AM

    Happens with most new TV shows haha!

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  14. RyanAugust 25, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    Yes this has happened, I cant remember what show it was...guess thats how uninteresting it was LOL.

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  15. NataliaMarch 15, 2012 at 9:29 AM

    I think Mad Men is one of the best television series in the U.S. in the last 20 or 30 years. I don’t usually watch too many series because frankly, I rarely get hooked on the plot. But Mad Men, especially, is a well-written and well contextualized series set in the decade of the 60’s, where the women were just regular secretaries and drinking and sleeping at the office was normal.

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