I just finished a taping for Headline News’ Glenn Beck show, in which I talked for what seemed like three and a half seconds about American Idol and the writers’ strike. (To viewers, I’m sure it will seem like an eternity.) The American health-care system’s failures never came up. Before the taping I had the [...]

This year Super Sunday falls just two days before Super Tuesday. (Feb. 3 4 will be known as Mediocre Monday.) To deal with the insuperable superness of it all, Fox, broadcaster of this year’s Super Bowl, plans to meld its political and its sports coverage, adding a morning Fox News segment to the top of [...]

There’s been a lot of speculation about the possible long-term side effects of a writers’ strike: that the disruption might change the development process or move the networks away from debuting most of their new shows all at once in the fall. Here’s another: will the strike burn viewers out on reality shows? Idol, this [...]