MTV It’s Laguna Beach. But no Laguna. And a different Beach. Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County, debuting tonight on MTV, moves the Laguna Beach formula up the coast. The original Laguna, of course, also gave us The Hills, whose third season debut–which I still have to catch up on–drew around three and a half [...]

Well, that was quick. John from Cincinnati aired its last episode Sunday, and, never one to resist a Christ parallel, David Milch has risen again three days later to start work on his next series for HBO, according to Variety: Sources said the creator will develop the project about a Vietnam veteran who returns to [...]

…wondered, whatever became of My Father’s Word? The geniuses at VH1′s Best Week Ever have the answer. HBO could have saved John from Cincinnati by borrowing a little from a certain Queen City workplace comedy. Arguably, David Milch beat them to the joke by actually casting Howard Hesseman in JFC. But you still have to [...]

I’m not sure if I have it in me to do a weekly Damages Watch. Not that it’s a bad show–as a thriller, anyway, it’s still doing its job–but it’s not the kind of show that really lends itself to a week-by-week breakdown, because its appeal is all about the plot. Four episodes in, for [...]