Brief spoilers for last night’s Survivor coming up after the jump:
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Limits, Even at Fox News, to Promoting Tea Parties
Yesterday was April 15, which is to say Tax Day, which is to say Tea Party Day, and needless to say that meant plenty of coverage on Fox News in particular of the anti-big-government protests held yesterday. One could get all J-school and tsk-tsk-y about how closely the news channel and especially its opinion hosts have associated …
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South Park's Bicentennial
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How much you loved the 200th episode of South Park last night probably depended largely on how much you love one of the biggest subgenres of that show: Episodes That Make Fun of Celebrities. That’s personally not one …
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JPTV Jr.: Educating the Next Generation of Reality Contestants
As any parent today will tell you, it is important for children to begin early acquiring the technological skills they will need in our demanding world. For instance, how can we use the Internet and distance-learning technology to teach children the vital skills they will need in order to successfully compete in the reality-TV …
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Modern Family Watch: Trash Talk and Cash Talk
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After the travesty that was the iPad episode (which mercifully aired while I was on vacation), Modern Family was back with an episode that hit on pretty much every subplot, explored some new combinations of characters while offering fresh takes on old ones and proved the maxim: if you have a …
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Idol Watch: Show Us the Votes!
Quick spoilers for last night’s double elimination on American Idol—after the break!
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The Morning After: All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
No time for an elaborate writeup of last night’s Justified, but I was glad to see the show move away from the self-contained stories (albeit very good ones) of the last few weeks to get at some of the reasons that coming home to Harlan County was such an unwelcome idea to Raylan. To wit: Daddy.
We met the tough, criminal cuss who is …
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Lostwatch: The Cluckiest Man Alive
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get your self a big bowl of homemade tortilla chips and watch last night’s Lost.
American Idol: The Final Nine, Part II
It was a night dedicated to the music of an American giant, a swaggering, pompadoured rule-breaker whose sexualized performances shocked a nation. Also, it was Elvis night. But the big name on stage was Adam—as in Lambert—last year’s Idol phenom and runner-up. Did Glambert teach this year’s sleepy finalists that it’s American Idol, …
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Treme Gets an Encore
I haven’t yet seen ratings figures for the premiere of Treme, but HBO must have seen something it liked—creatively, commercially or both—because two days after airing the pilot it’s picked up David Simon’s New Orleans drama for a second season. [Update: 1.4 million viewers Sunday, it turns out, so that would be “creatively.”] From …
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TV Tonight: Glee Returns—Too Much of a Good Sing?
Because you probably haven’t seen any ads for it or anything, I should remind you that Fox’s Glee returns tonight, after American Idol, at I-kid-you-not 9:28 p.m. E.T. Get out your scientific calculator and set your DVR.
Glee ended its fall ’09 run on a strong note, so to speak, not just with the finale but the “Wheels” episode, which …
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Conan Hits the Road
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[Update: An enterprising YouTuber posted the above footage of the Masturbating Bear’s curtain call at Conan’s Eugene show. For more clips—spoilers!—see Variety’s On the Air blog.]
With a freshly-inked cable-TV deal in hand, Conan O’Brien kicked off what could now be renamed the …
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HIMYM Watch: Gun-reliable Narrator
The premise of How I Met Your Mother focused on a central problem and pleasure of the show: the multiple layers of narration, all of varying degrees of trustworthiness. We know that Future Ted is telling this story to his kids and that he’s been known to change or embellish details. We know that he, in turn, is recounting the stories …