Tuned Up!; Also, We Are Now Taking Your Calls
Regular Tuned In readers--humor me--will notice some changes today. I've been exported over to the Moveable Type publishing platform, which means, among other things, a larger author photo and the schmancy banner picture above, which, I can assure you from the lack of mayonnaise smears and "GO TO ATM" Post-Its on the clean woodgrain, is not my actual desk.
There's also a new URL. The old one will work for only a few more weeks, so bookmark the new one. (Again, humor me.)
In exchange for the inconvenience of having to look at a bigger picture of my head, there are some benefits. Mainly, after this blog has existed for a mere sixteen months, we've added a Comments section. (I know. We're early adopters here at Tuned In! Next year I hear they're going to get us one of those fax machines.) So now you can provide free content for a gigantic, rich media corporation participate in the conversation and engage in building our community. Ideas, musings, corrections and input will be welcomed; praise will be cherished; criticism, worn like a badge of honor.
This is your chance to play God: prove to me that you exist!
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James: What, if anything, do you know about "In the City" premiering on BBC America tonight? I couldn't find a single review of it anywhere.
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First comment! Excellent comment! Just the kind of question we want to get at Tuned In! Not a question I can, in the strictest sense, actually answer--but an outstanding one nonetheless!
Seriously, what I know is that this is a BBC show about a gang of "ambitious twentysomethings," but Google could probably tell you that, and probably already has. BBC America sends me a lot of review copies, yet I don't recall getting this one. To be fair, I may have jettisoned it in my post-vacation triage. (A fact of the job: there are more hours of TV than a critic has waking hours--something's gotta give.) As a special prize to you for being our first post, I will scour my shelves for it this afternoon, but don't hold your breath.
I do know that "In the City" is a really great song by The Jam. If they used that song on the soundtrack, then I heartily recommend it.
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James, I'm a big admirer of your writing and criticism and always look forward to reading new installments of Tuned In. My only disappointment has been not having any way to respond to you or your posts, which as you can imagine is especially important when you get it all wrong. (The Scrubs musical episode was really good!) Congratulations (and, if you are your own moderator, my condolences) on having a real blog at long last.
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James, I'm a big admirer of your writing and criticism and always look forward to reading new installments of Tuned In. My only disappointment has been not having any way to respond to you or your posts, which as you can imagine is especially important when you get it all wrong. (The Scrubs musical episode was really good!) Congratulations (and, if you are your own moderator, my condolences) on having a real blog at long last. Time, heh heh, does march on. I look forward to more.
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James!
Can I call you James? I love your blog and if I had the money to, I'm sure I'd love your collumn in Time. I'm really excited that your new system allows for comments because you really are an intellegent and witty writer. I particularly liked your posting about the Isaiah Washington debacle. It makes for very interesting discussion around the water cooler. Keep up the good work!
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C. Brown,
I prefer Your Eminence, but I'll let it slide this time.
Mark U.,
We'll agree to disagree on Scrubs. It probably wasn't as bad as I made it sound--a couple numbers worked really well, but it didn't hang together as a musical for me (to get all Randy Jackson on you) the way the Buffy episode did. Partly, maybe, the limitations of the half-hour format.
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