SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, shave your head to indicate your deep emotional turmoil and watch the most recent Battlestar Galactica.
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TV Weekend: Man + Camera Crew + Room Service vs. Wild
Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls returns tonight, continuing season 2, which began airing episodes last fall. The controversy last year, in which it was discovered that Grylls occasionally stayed at resorts and had assistance from the crew accompanying him, did not finish off the show, whose premise is that Grylls …
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My Last Miley Post, I Promise, I Think
Regular commenter shara says lays down some common sense in the previous thread on the Miley Cyrus brouhaha:
If the parents of little kids are upset, then that’s their business I guess, but they can’t expect a young woman to not grow up just because they want a kid-friendly icon or role model. She plays a character on TV, she shouldn’t
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Dead Tree Alert: Montana or Molehill?
In this week’s Time, it fell to me to write The Moment—the mini-column that opens the magazine—on Miley Cyrus. Think of it as a last-minute asterisk on her Time 100 entry, written before the Vanity Fair incident, by the frighteningly prescient Donny Osmond (“Miley’s fans are not thinking about the fact that she will grow up too. As …
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The Morning After: Step into My Office, Baby
Stanley (Leslie David Baker) steps out from behind his crossword. / NBC Photo: Chris Haston
Another strong post-strike episode of The Office, which seems to have rediscovered its balance between comedy and drama, while toning down the zaniness of some of this season’s early episodes and dialing up the humor of awkwardness. The workplace …
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Lostwatch: Ghost Story
So this guy says to his doctor, “Doc, it hurts when I go like this.” / ABC
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get a prescription for sleeping pills, crack open a beer and watch last night’s Lost.
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First the Dodgers, Now Project Runway
First Project Runway moved from Bravo to Lifetime. I was fine with that. Now comes word (from EW via tvtattle) that Runway is moving from New York City to Los Angeles, at least for a good chunk of season 6.
Oh, no they dih-n’t. Oh NO they DIH-n’t.
Look, I’m sure they have plenty of little fashion thingies in L.A. I understand people …
The Drawings of Philip Guston
Untitled (Cherries), Guston, 1980 / © ESTATE OF PHILIP GUSTON
I got an advance look last week at “Philip Guston: Works on Paper”, which opened Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. There are over 100 drawings in the show, which originated in Germany and was organized in New York by Isabelle Dervaux, the Morgan’s curator …
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Will the Last Person to Watch Television Please Turn Off the Set?
Working on a print piece again, so the blogging may be a bit scanty today too. (Writing about TV, you learn in this job, tends to get in the way of actually watching TV, much less blogging about it.) According to the New York Times, however, this is probably not a big deal, because it turns out that you do not care about television …
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Solid as Iraq
You’ll probably be seeing a lot about this anniversary in the news today. But whatever implications it had for national security, our faith in government and the current political situation, let us also not forget how it made possible TV’s greatest extended satire about Iraq, right down to the hubris and the daddy issues:
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The Morning After: Paula's Damage Control
Spoilers on the American Idol elimination—and the latest on Paulagate—coming up… after the break!
Before the Deluge
The New York City Waterfalls; Brooklyn Bridge Site (artist’s rendering), Eliasson, 2008 / Images: © OLAFUR ELIASSON, COURTESY PUBLIC ART FUND
As you may have heard, this summer and fall New York will be hosting a roughly four-month outdoor art installation by Olafur Eliasson called The New York City Waterfalls. Cascades will pour …
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More On That Controversial Woman in Vanity Fair, and That High-Priced Female Anchor
I am referring, of course to Barbara Walters. The Miley Cyrus issue of Vanity Fair excerpts Walters’ upcoming memoir, Audition, in which—even as Katie Couric runs into more ratings trouble at CBS—she recalls being dismissed as the first female evening news anchor, with a giant-for-the-time salary and a none-too-happy male …