Reports The Hollywood Reporter, Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime on CBS on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Obama is close to a deal with NBC as well, it says, and may strike one with Fox, depending on a possible baseball conflict. Smart idea or waste of money? I guess it depends what you do [...]

Kath and Kim seems to be on its way to being the second-worst-reviewed new show next to Knight Rider (you go, Ben Silverman!), so I feel like I should say the one good thing about it that I neglected to mention in my review—they picked an awesome theme song:

There’s not much to add to that. Weep with me, mankind. *That is, “than are watching the television program Pushing Daisies.” Not “than are pushing daisies.” The legions of history’s dead fortunately still vastly outnumber Knight Rider’s anemic 2.2 rating. Also, I suspect there’s considerable overlap between those two groups.

Tonight sees the debuts of the American adaptions of Life on Mars, Eleventh Hour, and Kath and Kim, which are from Britain, Britain and Australia respectively and are surprisingly good, a bunch of hoo-hah and painful, respectively. Busy with a print deadline, so I’ll refer you to my earlier roundup review of this season’s imports [...]

How bad has the financial crisis gotten? Today’s Dr. Phil devotes itself to the economy, with a roster of guests including CNBC’s James Cramer and economist/game-show-host Ben Stein. To be fair, it’s not as if Dr. Phil just discovered personal finance. He, along with daytime-TV fixtures like Suze Orman, have long been giving viewers advice [...]