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According to Newsmax, Donald Trump will announce the next step in his political career on the season finale of his reality show. As did Jefferson and Churchill before him.
Reports the conservative website, Trump will use the finale to announce a press conference a few days later, at which he will in turn announce his candidacy. There’s …
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Last night’s return of Modern Family was dominated by two gags whose setups you probably saw coming like a… well, like a minivan plastered with an unintentionally inappropriate real-estate ad. (The “I Can’t Be Satisfied” tagline and the knowledge that a big letter F would drop onstage in Cam’s …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Justified:
FX originally intended to call Justified by the title “Lawman.” Circumstances and Steven Seagal interposed to change that, but a couple of things happened in “Debts and Accounts” that reminded me of it. The first was Art’s comment to Raylan that he’s a lousy marshal but a great lawman, an …
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It was “Music from the Movies” night on Idol, which, given the abundance of soundtracks, more or less translates to “Any Song Ever Written” night. Did it separate the Avatars from the Ishtars? And did the judges manage to say anything remotely critical of any performance all night? Click the pictures to find out.
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Some projects come to television heralded by all manner of advance coverage and fan buzz, like Sunday’s debut of Game of Thrones, which has been written about—here among other places—when it was only a twinkle in HBO’s eye years ago. And some projects are greeted by intense scrutiny and advance buzz… of a less flattering …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife:
The courtroom and personal/political stories in The Good Wife sometimes intersect but they don’t always work in concert. Often, a strong case-of-the-week pulls through a slack political story, sometimes vice-versa.
In “Foreign Affairs,” it was vice-versa.
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The first season of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution was my favorite new reality show of 2010 (and one of my favorite new series of the year altogether). As the British chef went on a crusade to improve the eating habits of a town and a school in West Virginia—finding resistance not just from …
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Remember the controversy over funding public broadcasting? I know, it was an entire month ago, but make an effort. Remember how it was the signal culture-war issue in America? Remember how this was a matter of principle and how we simply could not afford such extras in a time of deep deficits? Remember how it was a matter of values and …
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Stephen Colbert, as you probably know, is the guy who invented “truthiness.” So when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl made the statement that “over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does” is abortions (it’s actually about 3%)—and then his office backtracked by saying that his statement “was …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother:
To its credit, How I Met Your Mother has pushed its characters this season with some real and challenging developments: Barney’s finding his father, Marshall losing his, Marshall and Lily deciding to have a baby, then apparently deciding not to. But HIMYM has always felt a little …
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As I said through the many “person X may be leaving TV job Y” stories last week, I’ll believe these things when I see them. But I want to point out Bill Carter’s New York Times story that kicks forward the stories that Katie Couric and Matt Lauer may be moving on from the CBS Evening News and the Today Show respectively. Not because of …
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Spoilers for last night’s The Killing coming up:
After the two-part premiere of The Killing last Sunday, AMC’s long-form murder procedural is settling in to investigate its title crime at its own deliberate pace. As to the investigation itself, there are too many questions and I have too few theories to judge that plot so far. (The …
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The secret to the appeal of Discovery’s Human Planet, which debuted last night, is that it is as much about the second half of its title as the first. That’s not to say simply that it replicates much of the how-did-they-do-that camera wizardry of predecessors Planet Earth and Life. It’s also that it focuses on a situation that is as …
