According to several reports, Oprah Winfrey will announce tomorrow that she is ending her talk show in 2011. The show, reportedly, will bow out Sept. 9, 2011, the last day of Oprah’s current contract. It bears mentioning that there have been announcements and reports that the Queen of Talk would hang it up in the past; in 2002, her plan …
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…And Happy (Oh, You Count How Many) Days Until CHUCK Day!
Not to be outdone by ABC’s announcement of the Lost premiere (oh, they’re still outdone, but nonetheless), NBC announced that Chuck is returning to TV Sunday, Jan. 10, before moving to its regular Mondays at 8 p.m. E.T. timeslot the next day. Word is the show will produce 19 episodes, not the originally ordered 13.
So rejoice again. But …
Have Yourself a Sunny Little Christmas
In these tough economic times, I’m not sure I can in good conscience tell anyone to spend $27 retail (currently $16 at Amazon) for what amounts to an double-length single episode of a current TV sitcom. On the other hand, hell, the economy needs stimulus, and if you’re inclined to blow the money this holiday season (or have someone …
Minimalist TV
Mrs. Tuned In, a graphic design connoisseur (or is that connoisseuse?), pointed me to this way-cool tumblr blog, which proposes pared-down title graphics for a series of modern and classic TV shows. Each poster, by designer Albert Exergian, boils down a show to a single essential image, as with Six Feet Under, pictured, or, cleverly, …
Glee Watch: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:
Modern Family Watch: This Is the Sound of My Soul
Spoilers for last night’s Modern Family after the jump:
Corporate Press Release Theater: NBC to Get Emmys Out of the Way Early
NBC has set the date for next year’s Emmy Awards early, in more ways than one. Nine months in advance, it’s announcing a date—of Sunday, August 29. NBC (which airs football on Sundays during the NFL season) notes, a bit defensively, that when it aired the Emmys in August 2006, it “was the highest-rated entertainment program of that …
The Prisoner Finale: Now It Can Be Told
Spoilers for the finale of AMC’s The Prisoner, which if you cared enough about you have already watched but remain spoilers nonetheless, after the jump:
The Morning After: Turn This Mothership Out
Watching the abbreviated launch of V is a strange experience: the show will air only four episodes (one more is left) before vanishing to reappear in midseason, and when it returns, it will have a new showrunner, so it’s anyone’s guess how the series will be retooled. It’s less like a TV series than notes toward a TV series, with the …
Sons of Anarchy Watch: Getting the Gang Back Together
Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
The Morning After: Tell Me the Truth, Now
When Lie to Me debuted last season, I was impressed not just with Tim Roth’s performance but with the show’s procedural efficiency, its blend of science and story, and, above all, its whole-hearted embrace of its essentially cynical (and I don’t mean that as an insult) premise: everyone, or nearly everyone, lies. That said, it wasn’t the …
HIMYM Watch: Fly Me to the Smoon
Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother after the jump:
Palin on Oprah: Can You See the Real Me?
If you didn’t like Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign, she has a message for you: it was really the McCain campaign PR staff that you didn’t like. The real Sarah, you like just fine! Sitting down with Oprah Winfrey, Palin took up much of her interview blaming her performance in 2008 on–besides the media, of course–her campaign’s …