First off: tune to your PBS station tonight, just before 10:30, at the end of the documentary Salt, on the returning series POV. Or TiVo or VCR the show. Do it now. I’ll wait. I’m waaaiting. OK, here’s why.
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From GOP to Gallows Humor: The Daily Show Finds Its New, Exasperated Tone
I picked up the “Best of Summer” issue of Entertainment Weekly late last night (the July 9-16 double issue) and was startled to see sitting atop the “Must List” a full cast photo for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. “There’s nothing funny about the Gulf oil mess,” the magazine writes, “But he still wrings rueful laughs out …
David is Now Goliath: Entourage's Urgent Quest to Remain Relevant
Entourage returned Sunday night – a fact that, in previous years, would have been cause for jubilation around my house. But over the last few seasons, what used to be a witty, cutting, edgy observational drama about four young friends navigating the halls of Hollywood power has instead become a sort of male-oriented Sex and the City …
Sarah Palin's New TV Show: Polite, Professional and Oh So Boring
Love her or hate her, we saw a side of Sarah Palin last night that must have caught observers at every end of the spectrum by surprise.
That would be her boring side.
And while some of us thought that America was going through tough times – what with towering unemployment, bank bailouts and a tidal wave of foreclosures – it turns …
Sarah Palin's Primetime Show: Stirring Controversy on Day -2
Well here’s a couple things I didn’t see coming: Sarah Palin, primetime TV host…and a tacky little public relations feud between Fox News and LL Cool J, playing out via twitter.
Sarah Palin’s new TV series Real American Stories premiers tonight at 10 p.m. on the Fox News Channel, and as recently as Tuesday, the network was …
South Park's Chicken Buckets, Ugly Americans' Devil Baby: The Most Demented Hour of Primetime TV
I’m not entirely sure what it was that sent me into hysterics, but there was a distinct moment last night, probably right around 10:45 p.m., when Comedy Central finally wore me down. Bludgeoning my imagination with a blend of twisted satire and outlandish vulgarity, I completely lost it, laughing harder than I have in quite some …
Meet Ugly Betty: Submit Your Questions For America Ferrera
For a character known as Ugly Betty, it’s been a pretty beautiful ride for actress America Ferrera.
The 25-year-old came to fame (and won a couple awards) for playing Betty Suarez on the hit ABC comedy series that’s been running strong since 2006. But now the show is drawing to a close – the last episode airs April 14 – and …
Bring Out The Pitchforks! Stewart, Colbert Slam Party of Incitement
The party of no has become the party of incitement – or at least that seems to be the consensus of the comedic political watchdogs over at Comedy Central. It was the first night back on the air since the passage of the health care bill for both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and both hosts came out swinging against a sub-set …
Oprah: Who Wins? Who Loses? And Is She Really Quitting?
Oprah Winfrey made it official on air today: on Sept. 9, 2011, she pulls the plug on the talk show that has dominated daytime TV for two decades. Says the Queen: “Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit.” Mo Ryan has the full statement. (In related news, Discovery announced a launch date of January 2011 for …