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There were a lot of criticisms of American Idol last season. Was the biggest problem that the show was poorly cast? That it focused too much on the revolving-door drama at the judges’ table and Simon Cowell’s departure? That Ryan Seacrest began to steamroll over the show with …
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I could have added a link to my Treme review below, but this is good enough for its own post: Alan Sepinwall has a post-season postmortem interview with David Simon, in which the show’s co-creator talks about the first season, addresses some criticisms of the show, explains his thinking behind some of the storylines and talks a bit about …
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When I visited the set of Community last summer, creator Dan Harmon had recently gotten the unwelcome new that his show was going to be slotted against The CW’s Vampire Diaries. For some reason, this sent him into a riff about an idea for his new show a drama about Italian mobster vampires: “Madonn’, I’m a vampire! Gabbagool!”
Maybe …
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Spoilers for the first-season finale of Treme coming up:
Treme finished its first season with a finale that very much mirrored its pilot: sprawling, wide-ranging, deliberately paced, and—at about 83 minutes—expansive. It recalled our first encounter with these characters in ways both stylistic (another montage to the sound of a …
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Spoilers for Friday Night Lights coming up:
Only one of the problems Coach Taylor signed on for when coming over to coach East Dillon was rebuilding a broken-down sports program from scratch. Another was dealing with a body of players, many of whom have much rougher home lives and more deep-seated problems than he encountered with the …
There’s the hero and then there’s the less heralded but equally awesome friend. TIME takes a look at some of cinema’s best wingmen.
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The NBA finals ended last night with (spoiler alert?) The Los Angeles Lakers pulling off a dramatic comeback against the Boston Celtics. This morning followed with a surprising development of its own: The Parents Television Council commending a broadcast network for the work it did keeping a live event family-friendly. In this case, by …
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One thing I’ve always loved about Snoop Dogg is his determination not to take himself too seriously, without making a joke of himself. Here, Snoop declares his love for Miss Sookie Stackhouse in the way that only he can, …
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We may have to make this a Hollywood-ageism theme day: Betty White may be living large, but for the rest of the showbiz industry, age ain’t nothing but an zealously protected number. Now the Writer’s Guild of America has started a campaign to enable showbiz folks to be able to zap their ages from IMDB; the Screen Actors’ Guild has …
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The debut of Hot in Cleveland, starring Betty White with a trio of sitcom-nostalgia iconettes, attracted nearly 5 million viewers Wednesday night, making it the most-watched show on cable. Those numbers would be fairly decent for a broadcast network show (it’s not far from what, say, 30 Rock or Parks and Recreation draw), they’re …
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Do you really need a seven-minute video to catch you up on the plot of Futurama before it returns with original episodes on Comedy Central June 24? Probably not. Do you have anything better to do? Seeing as how you’re reading my blog, probably not. You’re welcome!
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Yesterday I wrote about the mixed messages in Barack Obama’s oil spill address, but last night Jon Stewart took on the same theme and showed why he gets paid a zillion dollars to do his work on TV, while I have this little blog I run out of the less-nice part of my basement: …
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Spoilers for last night’s premiere episode of Top Chef: DC follow:
“I will set the presidents,” misspoke Angelo with perfect appropriateness, as he kicked off Top Chef‘s first series set in the nation’s capital by rolling to a win in both the Quickfire and the Elimination challenges. If the precedent has indeed been set, we could be …
