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EW’s Ken Tucker is not only a brilliant critic but a braver man than I am, and therefore he subjected himself to last night’s hourlong edition of The Marriage Ref. (Actually Ken liked the first airing of the show, but I won’t hold that against him.) He reports what I might have expected: that stretched out to an hour, Ref overstays its …
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There’s a TV-related cover on the print TIME this week, though I didn’t write it; historian Douglas Brinkley looks at HBO’s The Pacific, Tom Hanks and the actor’s drive to become America’s celebrity-historian-in-chief. As Brinkley notes, the follow-up to Band of Brothers is similar and in significant ways very different:
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Spoilers for the one-hour Office special coming up after the jump:
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Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:
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Speaking of ABC reality shows, I’ve just watched the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, which I recommend checking out when it debuts later this month. The series follows the British chef, who’s done anti-obesity work for years, as he goes to a West Virginia town which has been rated the unhealthiest region in America, and …
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Those who fail to learn from the history of celebrity ice-dancing competitions are doomed to repeat it. In this case, ABC is teaming up with the BBC and the makers of Dancing with the Stars to produce a skating version of Dancing to air later this year. “A skating version of Dancing with the Stars” is also how you’d describe Fox’s …
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For a woman who has so many issues with TV series and hosts, Sarah Palin is becoming awfully active in the industry. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate turned Fox News contributor is now, according to Entertainment Weekly, teaming up with Survivor producer Mark Burnett to pitch a reality show about Alaska.
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Crystal Bowersox—and American Idol—dodged a bullet last night as the singer, who had been hospitalized earlier in the day, showed up to perform on a women’s night that had been rescheduled to accommodate her. Had she not made it back, I’m not sure whether it would have been a bigger blow for her or for the show.
Certainly, Idol …
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While I was in New Orleans, visiting the set of Treme and seeing the premiere screening of The Pacific, HBO was keeping busy on its next generation of series. First came news that Dustin Hoffman will star in the pilot of Luck, the horse-racing drama from David Milch and Michael Mann. It’s not guaranteed to make it to series. But if …
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, find the right stone to push at the temple and watch last night’s Lost.
I have stuffed James away in a dark hole where Claire is singing a creepy, off-key lullaby to him. So let’s get to “Sundown.”
When season six started a month ago, fans who had endured a long hiatus expected quick …
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Tolstoy, were he alive today, might have said this: Happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way; and all quirky-but-loving TV families—well, they vary, but within a defined range.
So it should probably not be surprising that you see many of the same conflicts and dynamics on NBC’s new dramedy Parenthood …
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With some time on my hands before visiting the set of David Simon’s Treme (the reason I’m in New Orleans, along with the premiere screening of HBO’s The Pacific), I took my rental car and explored the city, which I’d been to several times, but not since Katrina.
Obviously the effects of Katrina were greatest in terms of lives lost and …
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Jay Leno’s transition from primetime failure to once-and-future host of the Tonight Show lasted about a minute and a half. The cold open of his new Tonight Show had him waking up in a sepia-toned sequence—with Betty White, because the Internet loves her—a la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. (If you had “finds it was all a dream” in …
