SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, make sure you watch last night’s Wire. And catch up on any news about white tourists missing in Aruba. McNulty and the audience learn some fun facts about corpses and postmortem injuries. / HBO: Paul Schiraldi So there’s the spoiler-y thing I couldn’t tell you ahead of time about [...]

I didn’t think I’d be able to work up much indignation over NBC’s bastardized news-division presentation of the Golden Globes: “Going for Gold: A Dateline Special.” It would, after all, not be the first time that a network’s journalists would be forced to compromise themselves in the name of making a buck or two million: [...]

Best Golden Globes ever? Well, that would be a bit of an overstatement, but I could get used to this brevity thing. The only way the Globes could have gotten the business over any quicker would have been to give out the awards by mass e-mail. NBC, of course, had to add on to the [...]