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A blog from the Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall

Spoilers for tonight's "30 Rock" coming up just as soon as I buy your mulch... Continue reading "30 Rock, "Reunion": Mean, mean, mean girl" »

Spoilers for last night's "Life" coming up just as soon as I enjoy some days-old deer stew... Continue reading "Life, "Evil... and his Brother Ziggy": She ain't heavy, she's his brother" »

There are TV shows that get my full attention, and then there are shows I put on as background noise while I'm doing five other things. More often than not, "Law & Order" falls into the latter category, but as I put the latest episode on this morning to keep me occupied while I did some TV critic scut work, I found myself getting more and more drawn into it. Don't know how many fans of the mothership we have around these parts, but some thoughts coming up just as soon as I order the turkey chili... Continue reading "Law & Order, "Knock Off": Starbuck vs. Capt. Hadley" »

Spoilers for "Friday Night Lights" season three, episode nine coming up just as soon as I pick a theme for the winter formal... Continue reading "Friday Night Lights, "Game of the Week": Showdown at Beer-thirty" »

So, now that the other networks have shown their mid-season cards, NBC finally decided to unveil its plans past the initial January news that came out last week. You can read the press release here, and after the jump, bullet point-y analysis... Continue reading "The Office gets the post-Super Bowl slot, and other NBC mid-season shenanigans" »

Spoilers for last night's "House" coming up just as soon as I find out if two single doctors can share the same office without driving each other crazy... Continue reading "House, "Let Them Eat Cake": The internet is for diagnostic medicine" »

Spoilers for last night's "Fringe" coming up just as soon as I do a few magic tricks... Continue reading "Fringe, "Safe": Memories of man" »

With all the other mid-season announcements being made over the last couple of weeks, I was wondering when the CW would get around to announcing a premiere date and timeslot for season two of "Reaper." Well, it's going to be back on Tuesday, March 17 at 9 p.m., after "90210." As James Hibberd notes, the original plan was to rotate "Reaper" in on Thursdays so that "Smallville" and "Supernatural" wouldn't have to air many repeats, but apparently that combo's working so well together (by CW standards) that they didn't want to disrupt it.

I just keep finding excuses to run photos of the Bobby Cannavale "Cupid" remake (trailer here, don't forget), in this case because it's one of several mid-season shows on ABC and CBS to get a timeslot today. You can read the ABC press release and its CBS counterpart, and I'll offer up some specifics and analysis after the jump... Continue reading "CBS, ABC announce mid-season schedule changes" »

Spoilers for last night's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" coming up just as soon as I pick up someone to weigh them... Continue reading "Terminator, "Self-Made Man": History lessons" »

This is the story of an underdog, the story of survival against overwhelming odds, the story of amazing resiliency in the face of harsh criticism, competition and plain old common sense.

This is the story of "According to Jim."

Continue reading "Sepinwall on TV: 'According to Jim' goes on (and on and on and on and on and on...)" »

I had my "Life's too short" epiphany on "Heroes" about 90 seconds into trying to watch tonight's episode. Just couldn't bring myself to keep watching, even for the sake of the blog. Sorry. Feel free to talk about any or all aspects of "Eclipse 2: Electric Boogaloo." Don't know if I'll do an open thread every week (I don't usually do posts on shows I'm not watching) or if I'll give it another chance once the next "volume" begins, but I feel much happier without feeling some kind of obligation to keep watching.