You’d think that someone like me, who loves TV and writes about it for a living, would have stared at the TV, riveted by last night’s Emmycast. Well, you’d be wrong. Since I wasn’t assigned to do anything Emmy-related last night, I watched the final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium instead (how optimistic that they […]

  I’m done.  I’m out.  It’s over.  I can’t take another millisecond of coverage about Wall Street.  The fact is that most of the time I don’t understand a bit about what’s going on, and the brief flashes of understanding that I do have make me feel like I’m Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone. […]

The West Wing is gone, but not forgotten. That’s especially true as we find ourselves in the midst of a big election. If you tuned in for the Emmys on Sunday night, you saw Martin Sheen once again taking his place in the oval office. Today brings a new treat, as Maureen Dowd has a […]

I imagine that there might be some of you out there who don’t know what the Slingbox is.  (And by “some of you, I mean, “An Amish guy who is looking at this webpage on a laptop that fell off the back of a truck”.)  It’s okay, I don’t judge: the Slingbox is a wonderful […]

Get ready for Heroes, Season 3 to rock your world! OK, I really HOPE it rocks our collective worlds, after waiting nine long months for our favorite heroes to return. We’ll be live-blogging the event tonight beginning at 8:45 pm ET. Until then, check out this sneak peek:

Okay, don’t throw anything at me, but I have a confession to make: I didn’t watch Arrested Development when it aired.  In fact, I went out of my way not to watch it.  The entire time I was doing this I had this feeling that maybe Fox was just one viewer short of keeping it […]

The new fall season kicks it into high gear tonight with no less than nine series or season premieres. With so many good shows on at the same time on Monday nights, I’m ready for the proposed staggered schedule to begin. Thank god for DVRs and online streaming. With the return of CBS’s comedy Monday […]