Alan Sepinwall’s a Mad Man
Alan Sepinwall, a longtime TV critic for The Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey, writes a great recap of each episode of Mad Man on his blog that’s online by the time the episode’s over each Sunday...
View ArticleIn 1987, the No. 1 Show Aired on Friday
A web search turned up a great read on the 1987 national championship game between Miami and Penn State, which remains the most-watched college football game in history. The piece mentions a bit of...
View ArticleJosh Guers Leads TV Death Pool
The TV Death Pool has been updated with the cancellations of King of the Hill and The Beautiful Life, and contestant Josh Guers must be feeling pretty good about his chances. 10. King of the Hill 9....
View ArticleDown: Trauma, Up: Chuck
According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has decided not to pick up any more eps of newcomer Trauma. Whether Trauma will get to run out all of its 13 episodes is unknown. On the plus side, NBC ordered...
View ArticleKen Ober Has Died
Ken Ober died this weekend. Ken was a former stand-up comic who was probably best known for hosting MTV’s Remote Control. News of his death broke the way many stories do these days — from a Facebook...
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TiVo Fading
I work for a TV production company where my coworkers routinely overestimate the number of Digital Video Recorders there are in this country. It would stun them to learn that there are less than 40...
View ArticleIn The Matter Of Chin v. Cowlick
I’m on record back in December as saying NBC would end up burning Conan or Leno. “Burn” not as in double-cross (though I addressed that) but “burn” as in one of the two would be damaged goods at 11:30...
View ArticleConan Leno’ed Lopez
Conan O’Brien will not be headed to Fox; he’s going to TBS, where he’ll bump George Lopez’s talk show back to midnight. Lopez released a statement saying that he was delighted to have Conan as his...
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Why TBS? Two Words
The conventional wisdom was that Conan O’Brien would go to Fox. But the reasons he didn’t end up there are the same as why he was booted from NBC. 1. Ratings. Conan lost to Dave. This doesn’t mean...
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Lost (Spoiler Alert)
In the series finale, they finally kill Kenny for good. Seriously though, I hate to say “I told you so” but, like, 5 years ago I totally said the island was a place that they all made together so that...
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