The latest episode of the Firewall & Iceberg podcast has been posted , and now there are instructions on how to subscribe to a dedicated podcast RSS feed, whether in iTunes or not. Sound quality much better this week. Joke quality less so. I blame myself. See more here:  Firewall & Iceberg...

We’re in the home stretch for this season of “Big Love,” and things continue to feel much too busy to me. You may feel otherwise, and since the point of these posts at this point is to let you discuss the show, have at it. More: Big Love, "Blood Atonement": One-armed bandits

Reader mailbag column today, in which I deal with the Jay vs. Conan mess once and for all (I hope). See original here: Reader mail: Final thoughts on Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien

Tonight’s “Big Love” offered up a whole lot of Bill Henrickson at his most smug, stubborn and irritating, and the return of Teeny in the body of a different actress, but it also had some great interaction between Nicki and Cara Lynn (who is absolutely her mother’s daughter),...

In today’s column, I review “Life Unexpected,” which I enjoyed largely because of how it reminded me of the old WB shows I used to like. No time for a separate blog post to run after tonight’s premiere, so feel free to talk about it here. Here is the original:  ‘Life...

Over at NJ.com, I have details on NBC’s plans for the schedule when the Winter Olympics end and Jay Leno won’t be in primetime anymore. Note some good news at the end for “Friday Night Lights” fans who don’t have DirecTV. More here:  NBC announces post-Leno, post-Olympics...

Over at NJ.com, I have a collection of highlights from last night’s talk shows as they dealt with the Jay/Conan fiasco. I think Jimmy Kimmel’s approach was my favorite. Read more here:  Late shift videos

The hotel’s bandwidth is just good enough that I was able to Slingbox tonight’s “Scrubs,” which I thought continued the show’s recent creative upswing - and was the first episode to do so while featuring Zach Braff. (It was also the last Braff episode of the season.) Rather...

The biggest news of the day at press tour - unless you count Bradley Whitford’s Ron Swanson mustache - was Simon Cowell announcing his departure from “American Idol” after this season to launch “The X Factor” in America. Go here to read the rest:  Simon Cowell leaving...

Over at NJ.com, I run through Fox’s schedule for today at press tour. Should hopefully be a less intense day than the Leno-palooza was yesterday. Here is the original post: A day in the life of press tour: Fox