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The plucked peacock

This may seem like piling-on after yesterday’s brilliant Grinch/Zucker ditty by CliqueClack’s own Richard Keller, but what the hell happened to NBC? The once imposing network — home to such television icons as the Cartwrights and Johnny Carson — has plummeted into a chasm of mediocrity. A perennial ratings powerhouse during the ’80s and ’90s, […]

by Scott Tunstall

My new write-in campaign: Save Christian Kane!

It seems that it has become super-trendy these days to start campaigns to save things on TV. Any show that gets canceled seems to automatically see a save-our-show campaign pop up. With the exception of Jericho, these things rarely work. I have been feeling a bit left out, however, and decided to jump on the […]

by Bob Degon

It’s not raining. Joss Whedon is peeing on your leg.

… Either that, or something has snapped and he has actually gone insane. Over at the L.A. Times, they are quoting Whedon as saying he would have put Dollhouse on Friday too. I call shenanigans. This is Whedon being the good soldier, playing along with the network and trying to garner some much needed press […]

by Brett Love

Private Practice – Violet kisses a colleague, Charlotte takes a pregnancy test

(Season 2, Episode 9 – “Know When to Fold”) “If your boys swam through my weeds and got me pregnant, I am going to make you suffer every step of the way.” – Charlotte to Cooper First things first: Do I like Addison’s new haircut? Yes! It makes her look more professional and, well, bright […]

by Jane Boursaw

Lost in Lost – Jin: dead or alive?

We all saw it. At the end of last season Jin was left behind on the freighter as it exploded, leaving poor Sun wailing for her husband and father of her unborn child. It was one of the more powerful moments we have ever seen on Lost. At the time I thought for sure that […]

by Bob Degon

Life – Dead men made of flowers and more secrets revealed to Charlie

(Season 2, Episode 11 – ‘Canyon Flowers’) Creepy. That’s how I felt during this week’s episode of Life. From the time where Crews and Charlie found the dead driver buried as the stigma of a flower display to the very end scene, I had that sub-conscious feeling where I wanted to crawl a bit out of […]

by Richard Keller

Eli Stone – Pregnant dudes, addicted daughters, some Beatles and Seal

(Season 2, Episode 7 – “Help!”) If you needed to chose one word that could describe this protracted season of Eli Stone it would be ‘change’. Since the first minute of the first hour of the second season, the lives of all of the show’s major players have changed in so many ways. Whether it […]

by Richard Keller