UncategorizedA Word You Could Say on TV in 1955Via Terry Teachout , I found this clip of Noël Coward’s 1955 TV special "Together With Music" (with Mary Martin). The thing that...
UncategorizedTV Premiere Week: MondayThis is the biggest premiere week in some years, because most of the networks except the CW have elected to begin most of their...
UncategorizedI Heartily Endorse This TV-Related PostEven if Todd VanDerWerff hadn’t mentioned me in his AV Club primer on the 1970s situation comedy , I’d say it was one of the best...
Culture‘Boardwalk Empire’ takes on ‘Mad Men’HBO is hoping its new period drama can beat the one it turned down
UncategorizedCreated by Leonard FreemanI’ve only seen the pilot of the new Hawaii 5-0 (or CSI Hawaii as everyone has been calling it for some time now) so I can’t...
UncategorizedJoaquin Phoenix’s Reverse Catch-22When I read about Joaquin Phoenix’s "performance" in I’m Still Here , the first thing that came to mind was that this is like a...
Uncategorized‘True Blood’ won’t admit it’s a soap?They couldn’t make the season finale’s mayhem any more mayhem-ish than usual
UncategorizedJimmy Smits is Hardcastle Without McCormickNBC is premiering the Jimmy Smits vehicle "Outlaw" tonight after America’s Got Talent . Unfortunately, I only got the screener...
UncategorizedThe Ultimate Series FinaleJust a quick filler clip while I’m working on something else: many new shows this TV season will fail, and some of them will go...
CultureHe’s not just the token black guyWyatt Cenac of ‘The Daily Show’ is helping to kill off pigeonholing