NBC Photo: Justin Stephens Question of the Day: Which reality show is more badly misnamed–Dancing with the Stars (a.k.a. “Dancing with Where the Hell Is She From Again?”) or The Celebrity Apprentice? The list of Donald Trump’s, ahem, celebrities–whose show debuts January 3–was released today, and is herewith reproduced and annotated: Trace Adkins: I’ll give [...]

After spending nearly, like, a whole entire week as a web-only series, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick’s quarterlife has been signed up on NBC as a TV series to start in February. The big irony here, as I robo-wrote last week, is that Herskovitz wrote an impassioned L.A. Times editorial earlier this month that aligned [...]

No sooner did the sun go down on Friday, the last official day of my vacation work stoppage, than I saw that my bold labor action had its intended effect, as the producers and writers agreed to resume contract negotiations a week from today. Because let’s face it. People can go a few months without [...]