As you all know, today is the most important holiday of the year. I’m knocking off early for trick-or-treating / candy-handing-out duty, then to count the number of Sarah Palin imitators at the Park Slope Halloween parade this evening. I leave you with this holiday treat. Unfortunately, Hulu inexplicably does not offer Freaks and Geeks [...]

TTCFFC This is sad news. (H/t Sepinwall.) Not entirely unexpected news—I remember interviewing Stephen Root, on the set of ABC’s 9/11 miniseries, way back when King of the Hill was in the middle of one of its previous death scares. And maybe it’s more or less time. You could argue that the show properly should have [...]

…but, um, it just announced the pickup of a new reality-competition fashion show: NEW YORK – October 30, 2008 – Today, Bravo announced the pick-up of its newest fashion design creative competition series “The Fashion Show” (working title), in which the ultimate winner will be chosen by viewers and will have their designs sold by [...]

Series-high ratings for 30 Rock.

The press releases announcing various networks’ election night coverage have been rolling in fast and furious, but for those of you looking for a little different perspective, here’s the lineup from BBC America (which has been doing a good job this election with their beefed-up U.S. news coverage): Household names from the worlds of politics, [...]

Spoilers for this week’s Office coming up after the jump…

I’m a secular Jew (Mom’s side) from a half-Catholic family (Dad’s side), so except for weddings and funerals, neither side of me usually makes it into a temple or church on Saturday or Sunday. What I have instead is Thursday night. I still watch Survivor regularly, good seasons or bad. The current one, Gabon, has [...]

  30 Rock returned last night, pulled by the publicity snow machine that was Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin. Of the two episodes I’ve seen, I liked next week’s—with guest star Oprah Winfrey—better, but last night’s, which returned to the storyline of Liz Lemon trying to adopt a baby, was welcome too. It’s been [...]

According to the Political Ticker blog, John McCain is going to appear on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, where he’s been a favorite guest over the years. I don’t know how effective appearances like this can be at this point in the race—or any other point, for that matter—but when you’ve got an opponent who’s [...]