UncategorizedCheap n’ Fast ComedyThe most important TV-on-DVD release for the rest of the year is Shout! Factory’s The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete Series...
UncategorizedThe Video That Ruined Charlie Brown?Tonight I saw this promo -- a real promo, running on real television -- for ABC’s broadcast of "It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie...
UncategorizedGlee: Everybody Hates WillI don’t have time for much discussion of last night’s Glee, so I’ll outsource to Matt Zoller Seitz , who thinks the show needs to...
UncategorizedEvery Election Summed Up In Two LinesI mentioned the musical Fiorello! in my post on Tom Bosley, but I didn’t mention a couplet from one of the songs that always seems...
UncategorizedTV Time Slot HijinksI read an article in Variety over the weekend -- I can’t link to it because of the paywall, so good business move there, Variety...
UncategorizedHappy Treehouse of Horror DayTwenty years ago today, a hot new show called The Simpsons was in its first full season, and decided to do a Halloween special...
UncategorizedDenis Simpson, One of the Original Polkaroos, DiesA sad coda to the recent round of Polkaroo-mania: Denis Simpson, one of the show’s rotating hosts, has died of a brain hemorrhage...
UncategorizedRand Paul and the Mystery of Aqua BuddhaI haven’t said much about the TV ads coming out of the U.S. midterm election cycle, but this one is interesting enough that I...
UncategorizedAccidental TV Theme WeeksI mentioned a couple of weeks ago that it was "religion week" on TV, where several shows on several different networks did...