* The ’90s are back! While certain TV critics may have been underwhelmed with 90210, the teen-soap remake was The CW’s highest-rated debut ever (fine, that’s going back two years, but still). 4.9 million people watched, a small number by network-TV standards but roughly a gajillion by CW standards—important news since, The Hollywood Reporter says, [...]

Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart got “all up in [Brian Williams'] grill”—though Stewart disputed whether “the whitest man in America” could possess a grill—about the on-air feuding that broke out last week at NBC’s sister news channel, MSNBC. (Nutshell: Tim Russert is gone, everybody wants to be the new daddy, and it’s [...]

Yesterday it was a prediction. Today it’s a reality: 1. You start with a legitimate grievance. (The “What about the kids?” question would not, in fact, have been asked of a man.) 2. You argue that, by extension, any other criticism—about experience, about issues, etc.—must also be sexist. (The sum total of evidence for chauvinism [...]

Due, I assume, to unforeseen technical problems, millions of Americans inadvertently saw President George W. Bush endorse John McCain last night at the Republican National Convention. The President’s brief remarks had been slated in the 9:30 hour, which would have ended them before the major broadcast networks picked up coverage at 10 p.m. E.T. Instead, [...]