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No time for a full-on review of How I Met Your Mother‘s “The Wedding Bride” this morning, but I know some of you have thoughts, so here’s a post to discuss it (or any other Monday-night TV you care to). In short, I thought the intentionally broad movie clips (with Chris Kattan as a movie version of Ted) were amusing enough, but it seemed …
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Everybody’s been paying attention to the rebuilding program over at NBC, but ABC hasn’t had a gangbusters season itself in the overall ratings (beyond finally having success with new comedies). With Lost signing off, Grey’s Anatomy greying and efforts like FlashForward having failed, ABC just announced a fall schedule that fills a lot of …
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There’s a difference between an upfront presentation by the first-place network and one by an, um, less-than-first-place network. Where NBC kicked off its presentation to advertisers with apologies, Fox kicked off its own with stars. Beginning with the cast of Glee, the network trotted out the …
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“Just 13 more shows to go,” joked NBC executive Jeff Gaspin, as the network wrapped up introducing around a dozen new shows (depending how you count them) for next season. The network, after The Jay Leno Show, is emphasizing its commitment to quality scripted drama. Or, judging from the clips Gaspin and programming chief Angela …
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It’s now less than a week until Lost is no more. For this last week before the Lost weekend—call it the Lost Endweek—I’m going to post some daily transcripts from my on-set interviews with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and some of Lost’s cast members. I visited the set on April 19, and hadn’t seen any advance episodes, so …
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Spoilers for the finale of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains coming up after the jump:
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One more download of fall-schedule news before I leave for NBC’s upfront: Fox has released a 2010-11 schedule, including four new comedies, three dramas and a post-Super Bowl slot for Glee. More thoughts later (maybe after I’ve seen Fox’s upfront this afternoon), but for now, here are excerpts from the announcement:
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Attention, TV watchers, advertisers and Hollywood: NBC is determined to prove to you that it is once again dedicated to Quality Television. And it’s going to prove it to you by benching its best comedy. (Its best show, period, excepting Friday Night Lights, which half belongs to DirecTV.) Parks …
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Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
Last night’s episode of Breaking Bad was anchored by three remarkable monologues, by Walt, Jesse and Skyler. Each was styled as a confession of sorts: one true, one containing a lie, and one false, but revealing an uncomfortable truth in the process.
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It’s upfronts week in New York, which means I’m going to spend a lot of the next few days going from one network fall-schedule presentation to the next, and posting here as time and actual-interesting-things-to-write-about permit. Many of the new shows have been announced or leaked last week, but there’s still the possibility of news or …
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It’s official. NBC released a statement saying that Law & Order is finished after 20 years—merely tying and not breaking Gunsmoke’s run as longest-running drama. But Law & Order: SVU is returning, and NBC has picked up the spinoff, Law & Order: L.A., a.k.a. LOLA. (Seriously.) And woe to the NBC employee who notes that Dick Wolf already …
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Good news, Chuck fans! You don’t need to eat a Subway sandwich to save your show! Good news, V fans! You don’t need to eat whatever disgusting alien food product you would have had to have eaten to save your show!
At the rate news is leaking out, officially and un-, about next fall’s schedules, next week’s upfront announcements will be …
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Note: Not doing a Thursday-night-review gallery this week. This is not necessarily a permanent change; I just haven’t watched each show yet and am not sure when I’ll catch up.
“The Master Plan” gave us the Parks and Rec debut of Rob Lowe and of Adam Scott from Party Down. If you’re a Party Down …
