I liked The Boondocks when it first came out on Adult Swim; then time wore on, my TiVo backlog built up and the show went off the air, by my recollection, for 47 years. Season 2 starts tonight, and I’m curious to see whether its mix of anime, pop-culture parody and racial pissed-offness holds up. [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this post until you’ve watched the latest Friday Night Lights, and checked outside your house for skunks. NBC Photo: Bill Records The first thing that worried me about the new episode of FNL was not the controversial Landry-kills-Tyra’s-stalker scene (which still sounds like a parody even as I type it, as [...]

The early ratings numbers for the Fall 2007 season are in, and the most astonishing one is not for any particular show. New NY Times TV reporter and former TV Newser Brian Stelter reports that DVR ownership has gone up from 9 percent a year ago to a whopping 20 percent this fall. This fits [...]