Man … last week was just a bloodbath in the ratings. With the exception of Thursday night, it was bad news for all of the shows at the top of my list for every night. Kings on Sunday, Chuck and Heroes on Monday, Reaper on Tuesday, Better Off Ted and Lost on Wednesday, and Dollhouse […]
Dear FOX programming bigwigs, Thank you. No, really, I mean it. I know, I know, you’re probably surprised and even a little disappointed. Up until now, you’ve done a really super job making all us viewers angry, what with all the cancellations and schedule rearrangements. But a couple of days ago, I read a little […]
(Season 1, Episodes 7-13) If I weren’t sold before, after finishing the first season of The Wire, I can now consider myself an avowed fan. The first half of the season was a lot of build up , and it turned out that the second half was a lot of pay off. I can’t wait […]
(12/22 – 12/29) Yikes. That was not what you would call a good week of television. As usual, the holiday tossed the broadcast schedule into disarray, and new scripted programming was mighty hard to find. The only thing that passed for regular programming was the CBS Sunday night. Elsewhere, it was a mish-mash collection of […]
Today our group poem continues. When we left off, Hugh Laurie was getting ready to barge into Kevin Reilly’s office, despite Joss Whedon’s warnings, and Prison Break‘s Dominic Purcell showed up to try to stop him. Did it work, or does Hugh Laurie commit career suicide by barging into the big boss’s office? Read on […]
I know, you are all starting to wonder how this tale will end, aren’t you? You don’t have much longer to wait; it’s almost Christmas and we’ve been enjoying these relaxing little read-alouds, haven’t we? Nothing like celebrating the stress of the industry folks to make our holiday stress seem insignificant …. In case you […]
(12/14 – 12/21) This week, the other networks just made it easy for CBS. After taking second on Sunday night, to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the Tiffany network went on to win the next five nights in viewers and the demo. Granted, there were more repeats than usual, but even the CBS repeats were in on the […]
