Friday Night Lights, in full HDTV glory, thanks to the valiant efforts of Jean from Time Warner Cable, who unlike many cable servicepeople I have encountered over the years, did not stare at my Tivo box as if he were being asked to assemble a particle supercollider. Beyond that–well, we’ve got Lost (already watched, more [...]

Monday I wrote about the impending rise of Jeff Zucker to the top of NBC Universal. Yesterday, I made an effort to say something nice about him. Even though he had shown little taste or aesthetic savvy in picking shows for NBC, even though he had presided over a major decline in NBC’s ratings and [...]

The most compelling TV of the week is in a newspaper. A newspaper website, to be specific: Britain’s Sun newspaper is hosting the cockpit video of a U.S. “friendly fire” incident that killed a British soldier. The footage isn’t graphic or gruesome–it’s powerful, really, because you see the targets the way the targeters see them, [...]