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The Daily Show is not live TV, so when Jon Stewart responded Wednesday to Anthony Weiner’s inability to identify “with certitude” whether a certain Twitter photo was of his own crotch, Stewart noted that the show had not had time to generate a full segment. The show made up for …
The good news first. Well, at least it’s potentially good news. Jane Lynch is the host of the next primetime Emmy awards! Yes, I liked Neil Patrick Harris too, but apparently he can’t host everything all the time and he was good enough to endorse Lynch on Twitter and he has a point. Lynch is personable, she’s a good stage performer, …
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
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Was Anthony Weiner framed, or did he self-twimmolate? Was it his package or was it hackage? We don’t know, and after a round of TV-news interviews yesterday, we may be even farther from knowing.
The controversy over the Twitter photo of a tumescent man in undies posted to …
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
The show that I (and some other critics) named as the best TV show of 2010, Breaking Bad, has finally got a return date for its fourth season on AMC, July 17. I visited the set earlier this year and will have more to write before the season debut; in the meantime, I will spoil exactly nothing about what you’ll see when it returns. But if …
If there’s one formula for distinguishing a Bravo competition-reality show vs. those of other networks it is: Creation vs. performance. (This category, mind you, does not apply to the Real Housewives series, et al., which are about their own kind of performance.) Top Chef, Top Design, Work of Art and, once upon a time, Project Runway …
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
Even though TV is a more year-round phenomenon than ever, the end of the regular TV season—with the crush of upfronts news and all the season finales to watch/cover—still feels like finishing a race for me. So Memorial Day is a good time to do what I would do after running a marathon: catch my breath, set my next goals and get …
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Spoilers for last night’s Modern Family season finale below:
I wrote last week that the previous episode of Modern Family, “See You Next Fall,” played like it was intended as a season finale, ending with a valedictorian speech, bringing the family together for a life transition and putting a …
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol Season 10 finale below:
I’ll just spoil it for you before the jump: this year’s American Idol is—a country singer!
Oh, which one? The choice boiled down, as in years past, to what you think the voting criteria should be: the finale performance or the season over all? Is Idol the Super Bowl, …
“I’m talking about the same [god] you talk about. I’m talking about the Alpha and Omega. The omniscient, the omnipresent, the ultimate consciousness, the source, the force, the all of everything there is, the one and only G-O-D.”
Just to be clear, Oprah Winfrey was actually talking there about the One God of monotheistic religion, not …
Spoilers for the season 2 finale of Glee below:
Seen one way, New Directions blew their visit to New York by wasting a lot of time. They spent their visit mooning around Broadway stages, running around the fountain in Lincoln Center and getting into pillow fights, while spending apparently all of five minutes slapping together two …
