MTV’s Total Request Live, perhaps the ultimate TV artifact of the boy-band era, will be no more after November, ending a ten-year run. One of TRL’s legacies, beyond unleashing Carson Daly on an unsuspecting world, was to let fans at home pepper the screens with e-mail shout-outs during the show. That technique will go on, [...]

Thanks to Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC finally got nominated for a passel of Emmys this year, which meant that at some point, someone at the network was bound to remember that they were being aired next Sunday, opposite its marquee show. So AMC has announced that it’s pushing back episode 9 of season [...]

Weeds ended its fourth season last night, without me. The finale is sitting on my desk, but I fell behind over the summer (the early part of the season lost me), and at some point I’ll need to marathon the last few episodes. In the meantime, feel free to roll your own analysis in the [...]