Tuned InUncategorized
This is the second of two parts of a batch of actor interviews I conducted on Lost’s set in Oahu (and in the case of Matthew Fox, over the phone) in April for my feature in TIME. Part one, with Terry O’Quinn, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway, posted yesterday.
As I said then, there’s nothing horribly spoilery in them (at this point …
Tuned InUncategorized
So many finales, so little time! It would be nice if the networks would have a little consideration for me and stagger their seasons, so that shows start ending in April and continue through June, just before I go on vacation.
Today, after a whopper of a night of finales, I have to spend much of the day feeling the cells in my body …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is it. The big one. T minus two days. A couple notes on what I’ll be doing to mark the finale of Lost this weekend.
First, for those of you in the New York City area, I’ll be at the Paley Center Saturday afternoon, talking about Lost on a panel that also includes Alan Sepinwall of HitFix, Dan Manu of Television Without Pity, Chris …
Tuned InUncategorized
Different people have criticized this season of The Office for different reasons. (At least different critics and blog commenters have; it’s worth noting that for all that it remains easily NBC’s most popular Thursday comedy.) For me, the problem has been the lack of stakes. The Office has been best when it’s about real problems that …
Tuned InUncategorized
[vodpod id=Video.3662829&w=425&h=350&fv=]
Ending Modern Family‘s first season with a family portrait made sense on more than one level. From a simple storytelling perspective, it’s a natural, plausible way to get the entire extended family together for a season-sapping scene after following their separate subplots through the episode. …
Tuned InUncategorized
If your job is covering TV and not, say, Somali warlords, you do not expect ever to conduct an interview with someone who is holding a deadly weapon the entire time. But then I talked to Terry O’Quinn, in his trailer on location with Lost, last month. O’Quinn was sent, as a souvenir, an inscribed hunting knife from the SOG company, in …
Tuned InUncategorized
The CW was the last broadcast network to announce its fall 2010 slate today, and while Melrose Place is no longer for this world, the news was more about additions: for the first time the network will air originals every night (of the five nights it programs), rather than using “encores” of shows like America’s Next Top Model. One Tree …
Tuned InUncategorized
Spoilers for last night’s utterly shocking, unless it wasn’t, elimination on American Idol coming up after the jump:
Tuned InUncategorized
CBS began its upfront presentation making the vigorous case to advertisers that there is nothing wrong with broadcast TV, with the broadcast TV model, or with the advertisers that support it. CBS chief exec Les Moonves told the assembled admen and -women that he felt “bullish” on the economy. CBS’s sales chief Jo Ann Ross said that, no …
Tuned InUncategorized
At this week’s upfronts, the major broadcast networks introduced a lot of police and other crimefighting series for next season. I know. In other news, water announced that it will continue to be wet.
Regular readers know that I am not a huge fan of cop shows, except, of course, for the ones that I like. That is to say, I don’t hate …
Tuned InTelevision
From the perspective of Turner Networks executives, the reason to be at their upfront presentation this morning (which previewed the schedules of TBS and TNT), was “reach.” Even though this is traditionally the week that the big broadcast networks present their schedules, they argued, their cable networks reached enough viewers …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is the last of three parts of my interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on April 19. Here’s part one and here’s part two of the interview.
* As a result of [the growth of media platforms], you have a very involved fan base. Is there there a point at which you kind of need to plug your ears and not pay attention to all the …
Tuned InUncategorized
This morning CBS announced a new schedule that was probably more interesting strategically than creatively. It has three new dramas (including a Hawaii 5-0 remake), all in some way having to do with law or crime, because this is the Crime Broadcasting System. There’s a new Chuck Lorre sitcom, because this is the Chuck Broadcasting …
