Speaking to The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz recently, ABC’s Bob Woodruff talked about the fact that he planned to continue to report from the field as coanchor of World News Tonight. "The great danger is to overemphasize the story simply because the anchor is there," Woodruff told Kurtz.
The anchor became the story yesterday when
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Note to self: never, ever, embarrass Oprah Winfrey. The most powerful woman in daytime television and publishing brought James Frey on her show today, after he was caught having fabricated parts of A Million Little Pieces, the memoir she had selected for her book club, and subjected him to a public flogging. No, scratch that. Flogging is
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SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses last night’s episode of Lost; if you Tivoed or taped it, you may want to watch it first — and, you know, stop clicking on links with the title Lost in them in the meantime.
It was a slow night at Lostwatch headquarters, as the show devoted an episode to the character we care least about on the
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Lorelai Gilmore, meet Chris Rock. Superman, this is your new neighbor, Smackdown! The Big Four’s two baby-sibling networks, UPN and The WB, today announced plans to combine into a single supersib, The CW, to launch in September. (The WB is owned by TIME’s parent company, Time Warner; UPN, by CBS Corp.)
The new "fifth network," to be
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In politics,
you dump bad news at the weekend, and that was what NBC did with the expected
announcement that The West Wing will end after this season. The quality of the
often-sanctimonious drama has actually improved inversely with its ratings, the
show was invigorated by the campaign between Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) and Matt
Santos
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SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses last night’s episode of Lost. If you haven’t gotten around to watching it, go to your TV immediately–walk off the job or leave your kids unattended if necessary–watch it and come back before reading further.
Last night on Lost we got out first extended look at one of the "Others" since the menacing
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The amazing thing about American Idol is that it gets tens of millions of people to watch it two months before it really starts. It begins with the audition episodes-singer after deluded singer in city after deluded city-that lead into the Hollywood-audition episodes, and thence to the interminable semifinal rounds that will bring us,
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Why are the acceptance speeches better at the Golden Globes than at the Oscars or Emmys? Are the pressures lower? The winners cleverer? The stars drunker? I don’t know, but upon winning Best Actress in a TV Drama, Geena Davis told a touching story about a little girl telling her that the show had inspired her to be President, only to
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The review disc of the first four episodes of this season’s 24 (debuts Sunday, 8 p.m. E.T.) comes with a message from Fox, in bold and underlined: "Do not divulge to your readers the events of the first 10 minutes in the first hour." Given that 24 is a serial show, that makes it kinda impossible to tell you anything about what happens in
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Last night, Lost returned, after a hiatus ofwhat was it, five, six years?and came through on one of the promises of the producers to resolve some of the show’s tantalyzing questions: we finally saw the monster. Kind of. On an excursion into the island’s jungle, rocker-cum-junkie Charlie and African enigma Mr. Eko heard the by now …
For years, Saturday Night Live viewers have been like dogs licking the bottom of an empty dish, in the wistful, futile memory of the delicious dinner that used to be in there. Once in a while, there would be a brief reward: a good Weekend Update segment, an Ashlee Simpson meltdown. But as in a substandard dog food, the meat-to-filler
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The Discovery Channel, your go-to cable channel for middlebrow documentaries, Monster Garage, I Shouldn’t Be Alive, American Chopper and finer motorcycle-custom-shop-based reality shows, is the new employer of former Nightline host Ted Koppel. A press release issued this morning says the home of MythBusters has hired Koppel — along
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The dirty secret of my annual top 10 TV shows list is that it is not really a top 10 TV shows list. Like TIME TV critics before me, I concentrate on new shows and series, on the theory that a list of the
straight-out best shows would include, say, Lost or South Park every year, and thus be insufferably boring. Not too boring for a
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