Category Archives: Television

That’s right, kids. All it takes is a major multi-million dollar corporate executive to make one of the biggest bonehead moves in television history to at least momentarily get me out of this writing funk. Here’s a question for you: let’s say you somehow managed to executive produce the most profitable morning news show inContinue reading “How does Jeff Zucker keep failing upwards? NBC and the pending Leno debacle”

I don’t know about you, but I find myself incredibly enthusiastic about Bill Carter’s story in today’s NY Times detailing NBC’s plan to offer free downloads — not streaming — of many of its series. Of course, I am annoyed that this service won’t be available to all of us Mac users until the unspecifiedContinue reading “GOOD ON NBC, BUT HERE’S HOW GREAT IDEA COMPRIMISES GET ALL SCREWED UP”

I didn’t notice the Katharine Heigl moment, but in my Emmy post below, I referenced the cutaways Fox made from both Ray Romano and Sally Field while asking why the producers couldn’t have figured out a more elegant solution. And what was it that caused the Emmy producers and/or Fox censors to jump on thatContinue reading “THIS IS WHAT THE FOX FUSS WAS ABOUT?”

For weeks, Fox had been pimping their “new summer series” Anchorwoman. It wasn’t even until this week that I realized it was a reality show and not a bad summer sitcom. Not that it would have mattered to me: I would have watched it either way, and had it been a good reality show, IContinue reading “ANCHORWOMAN: WHY DID THEY EVEN BOTHER?”

For anyone who thinks that this summer has presented a dearth of good television, you a) must not have actually been watching and, maybe more importantly b) definitely haven’t been watching BBC America (Channel 106 on Time Warner cable.) Among the several series I’ve been following on the Brit-caster is also one of the all-aroundContinue reading “DIVO ALERT – JEKYLL: ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT WATCHING”