UncategorizedTom Fontana, Always Too EarlyI’m very much liking Treme but can’t add much more (yet) about the show, let alone David Simon. But I thought I would link to this...
UncategorizedGetting Fired From a Show Before You Even StartRemember when I said that Patton Oswalt had been cast in a show? Well, he was. Then. But that was a long time ago. Days ago. And...
UncategorizedTV Directing: Not Exactly Hackwork, Not Exactly ArtJoanna Weiss’s article on TV directors , which includes interviews with the likes of Rod Holcomb (who did the pilots of The A-Team...
UncategorizedFor All You Fergie Olver Fans Across the WorldAnybody remember Just Like Mom? I can’t be the only one who watched any cheap Canadian-made game show if there was nothing else on...
UncategorizedIn Come TagsI’ve written before about sitcom "tags," those short sequences that reward you for sitting through the final commercial break. I...
UncategorizedSuperTina (Fey)Backlash against 30 Rock follows not from "is this funny" but "is this good for feminism"
UncategorizedWho Else Loves the GLEE Cheerleaders?The cheerleader non-sequiturs sound like they were transcribed from the consciousness of a very weird person
UncategorizedWhen Glenn Close Closes a Door, Diane Keaton Opens a WindowIt’s beginning to look very much like Damages won’t be back for a fourth season. DirecTV seems unlikely to step in and save it...
UncategorizedPatton Oswalt Is the New Jimmy JamesUpdate: Well, that doesn’t last long . This guy hasn’t had the best run of luck lately. The news that Patton Oswalt has been cast...
UncategorizedTBS Presents Tyler Perry’s House of Conan O’BrienHe’s ’openly saying that he’s not the equivalent of Leno or Letterman, but of Stewart and Colbert’