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McCain to Do Conan

NBC Word is in from NBC that John McCain will appear on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Friday, July 18. It’ll be his first appearance there, according to the network, since 2005. I’ve been working on a future column having to do with pop culture and the candidates, and one side issue I’ve been [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: My Two Dads

From this week’s Ask Ausiello (now relocated to Time’s sister publication/site, EW), Michael Ausiello shares a small bit of Lost dish: Team Darlton is doing their annual “radio silence” thing, so Lost scoop is at a premium these days. Luckily, I managed to unearth this little morsel: John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are [...]

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Office Webisodes Return: Kevin's Big Score

Brian Baumgartner as Kevin. / NBC It’s summer, and the writers’ strike is over, which means that it’s time for the broadcast networks to finally launch some of that original online content that everybody was so exercised about last winter. Today is the debut of this summer’s webisodes of The Office. (The first is scheduled [...]

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The Morning After: TCA Roundup

* Matthew Weiner will give you information about Mad Men when he is damn good and ready, and you will be damn good and entertained by it. Now stop bothering him and let him make his geniusy things. * History Channel plans Sandhogs, a series on the cannibalistic, lantern-eyed mole people tunnel diggers who work [...]