It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (review)
Snarky and sweet at the same time and loaded with cameos of celebs having a great time, it's even set in the old Muppet Theater, like the show was, with the star on the door of Miss Piggy's dressing...
View ArticleTelevision Under the Swastika (review)
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and...
View ArticleJay Leno in prime time: death knell for quality network TV?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how corporate entertainment might change if the economy tanks much more than it already has — and that seems likely to happen — and how we consumers of both...
View Articlewas ‘Pushing Daisies’ cancelled so Bryan Fuller could return to ‘Heroes’?
What? Of course not! Who would think such a thing? Crazy conspiracy people, that’s who. Line your hats with some tinfoil, crazy conspiracy people! Pfft! Was Pushing Daisies cancelled so Bryan Fuller...
View Articlenewsflash from the 20th century: ‘Secret Girlfriend’ moves from Web to TV
No no no. They’re getting it all backward! Comedy Central has just greenlighted a new show based on a Web series, “Secret Girlfriend,” according to Variety. This is going in the wrong direction — it’s...
View Articlequestion of the day: Was Jon Stewart unfair to CNBC when he lambasted Jim...
It’s hard to believe that someone so prominent would be so willing to out himself in public as a big ol’ crybaby: NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker fired back at...
View Articlequestion of the day: Is the end of ‘ER’ the end of an era?
NBC’s long-running doctor drama ER wraps up forever tonight, and a recent article in Los Angeles Times suggests that when the series goes, so goes with it our former ideas about what constitutes...
View Articlequestion of the day: Could the American broadcast networks be bigger crybabies?
They’re at it again: ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC are complaining because President Obama has asked for some primetime access to discuss with the American public his first 100 days in office. As the New York...
View Articlequestion of the day: What’s the most dramatic thing broadcast TV networks...
The New York Times this morning is running an article about how terrified everyone is about the poor prospects of the upcoming broadcast television season, which doesn’t begin till September but...
View Articlequestion of the day: What’s your biggest disappointment of the just-wrapped...
Did you hear about Jimmy Kimmel’s takedown of ABC execs at the ABC “upfronts” — where the networks present their new shows to advertisers — this week. From The New York Times’ Arts Beat: [I]n a “Jerry...
View Articlequestion of the day: NBC cancels prime-time Leno: why did it take so long?
Anyone could have said that moving Jay Leno, America’s class clown, to prime time from late night was a bad idea — in fact, lots of us did say it. And NBC finally caught on: PASADENA, Calif. – NBC said...
View ArticleNBC’s business plan: burn money, then burn more money
Item: NBC will pay Conan O’Brien a severance of $40 million– no, wait, maybe it’s $45 million. Well, some of the dough will go to O’Brien’s laid-off staffers, but still: that’s a ton of money to not...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman is awesome, Regis Philbin is an idiot, Jay Leno and the end of...
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View ArticleZachary Quinto gives up Spock? a Weird Al movie? save ‘Mad Men’s Sal, and...
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View Articlequestion of the weekend: How do we fix what’s wrong with American politics?
Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow proposed that we need to find a new word for “something that is both catastrophically important to the future of the United States and totally freaking...
View ArticleKevin Smith, foul-mouth? is ‘Avatar’ immoral? Penelope Cruz in ‘POTC 4’?, and...
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View Articlequestion of the day: What should Conan O’Brien do next?
We haven’t heard much from Conan O’Brien since NBC unceremoniously booted him from The Tonight Show after Jay Leno’s experiment with primetime chat flopped. But now, with the networks in the final...
View Articlezombie Beatles; ‘Iron Man 2′ sexist?; good-bye, ‘Heroes’; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis, sexist pig; that hot chick in ‘Prince of Persia’ is like...
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View Articlequestion of the day: The most-coveted U.S. TV viewers are turning to...
Will we soon see a primetime English-language telenovela on ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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