A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

And Speaking of Friday Night

The New York Post's Don Kaplan asks something I wondered aloud to my editor yesterday but never got around to blogging (or finding the answer to): why in hell did they schedule the first Presidential debate on one of the week's least-watched nights of TV?

Bonus question: does this mean you can forget about targeting your answers in the first debate to the youth vote?

[Update: Perhaps no longer an issue.]

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