Top Chef has become a Tivo show for me this summer, recorded and saved for Thursday night to take the place of Survivor, as Pirate Master has so thoroughly failed to do. I spend Thursday carefully avoiding any spoilers. Therefore, I’m not reading the comments–la la la, I can’t hear you–until I’ve watched. But I’ve [...]

Moeser and Brady rock out. Greg Gayne/FOX In the middle of the first episode of Fox’s Don’t Forget the Lyrics last night, as the first contestant ran through a rendition of the Jackson Five’s ABC, a line from the song ran in giant capital letters on the onstage video display and the screen chyron: “READING, [...]

Mark it on your calendars: as of January 1, 2008, Court TV will no longer exist. The legal channel is becoming “TruTV,” recognizing its shift of focus away from trial coverage to reality shows. This Reuters article includes any number of risible TV-biz-isms, one of the choicest being the network’s explanation that it’s going after [...]