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It’s probably going to be a slow couple of weeks for coverage of current TV here because (1) it’s fall-screener season, which means I’m spending much of my time watching shows that won’t air for weeks or longer; and (2) it’s late August, so whaddyagonnado?
So this is as good a morning as any, before Labor Day, to look back at what was best on TV in summer 2011.
Yesterday was the first day of summer, the longest, lightest day of the year, which made it the astronomically perfect day for ABC to premiere its companion piece to Wipeout, 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. The premise was simple: the host asked a group of contestants challenging, multiple-choice questions about—I don’t know, facts [...]
I feel like I should just get a time-saving review template to use over the summer. “Hey, everybody! A basic-cable network is premiering a light, escapist procedural about cops and/or spies with personality quirks and gritty, but not alienatingly challenging, cases! It’s not Mad Men, but what the hey, who wants to think about stuff [...]
What's that mirror talking about? No one is fairer than Charlize Theron. Unless we're talking inner beauty—which is what this movie is about.
As we prepare for the Game of Thrones finale, we recognize Joffrey and nine other baddies who showed us that terrible, horrible things can come in small packages
Highlights include Dolly Parton singing for Emily Maynard and one omelet named Shelly
| 1 | Men in Black 3 | $55M |
| 2 | Marvel's The Avengers | $37M |
| 3 | Battleship | $10.8M |
| 4 | The Dictator | $9.6M |
| 5 | Chernobyl Diaries | $8M |
