ABC Tonight sees the debut of ABC’s Samantha Who?, in which Christina Applegate plays an amnesia victim forced to slowly discover that, in her former life, she was a first-class beeyotch. I won’t be watching it, because I already have. My quick take: good concept, decent execution, unlikely to be around long enough to get [...]

The afternoon’s Fox Business Network Fair and Balanced Moment comes courtesy of afternoon anchor duo Cheryl Casone and David Asman. The pair introduced a report from Fox’s Adam Shapiro on the campaign promises of presidential candidates–mostly Democrats–and what they would cost taxpayers. “Bottom line,” Shapiro concluded, “Democrats saying raise taxes, Republicans saying hold the line [...]

Robert Voets/CBS The Fox Business Network launched this morning, but there was a major change today at a more important TV chronicle of the American marketplace. Drew Carey took over The Price Is Right. The gods smiled on Carey, or at least his contestants, his first time out: every player won their pricing game, for [...]

While watching the first morning of Fox Business News today, I looked back at an essay I wrote a few years ago on Fox News, where I wrote that the channel’s success owed as much as anything to its attitude and its aesthetics. “Traditional, detached TV news tells you the news is interesting,” I wrote. [...]

Remember K-Ville? Yeah, it’s still on the air, but still… remember it? Remember how we were discussing that there was a great story in there, about New Orleans and reconstruction and what has become of the city, if only Fox hadn’t turned it into a mediocre cop procedural? Remember how we were thinking that it [...]