Is there a less appetizing phrase than nonalcoholic flavor strip? Except for “CBS rum-family saga,” no. (Thanks to tvtattle for the link.)

Jim Lehrer, prepare to Frei! Sean McCormick / BBC Worldwide In 2006, the anchor of the moment was Katie Couric. By early 2007, it was Charles Gibson. But this fall, it’s time to make room for… Matt Frei! Who? The BBC’s Frei is the newly announced presenter–sorry, anchor–of BBC World News America, BBC America’s newly [...]

Monty Brinton/ CBS Yesterday was Tuned In Jr.’s first day of school. He came home with a nasty skinned knee and a bandage on his finger from an accident with scissors. Foolishly, perhaps, we are not getting the lawyers involved. Because, you know, kids get hurt, right? Not exactly shocking. It might have seemed different, [...]

HBO photo: Nicole Rivelli I actually do manage to stay fairly unplugged while on vacation, so I had a lot of late-August TV waiting for me when the family got back to the Borough of Kings. I don’t have the diligence–nor, I bet, do you have the patience–for a full-scale roundup of what I missed, [...]

Apparently I wrote a column while I was on vacation. It’s in the current Time magazine and online right here. Who knew? That work-while-you-sleep chip they implanted in my brain must have kicked in! Actually, it’s a column on the networks’ summer-karaoke shows, bumped for space reasons a while back, which my editors apparently decided [...]