UncategorizedThe Welcome Return of NewsRadio’s CreatorThe way some people react when they hear of a new TV project from a brilliant drama creator is the way I reacted when I heard that...
UncategorizedJust Make Good Episodes, Then Decide What Kind of Show It IsThe Lost wannabes have failed because, well, they’re wannabes
UncategorizedA Hit Show Is Hard To FollowAfter I received a copy of tomorrow’s release of Mary Tyler Moore season 6 (aka "the one with ’Chuckles Bites the Dust’"), I was...
UncategorizedWhat Current Shows Would Make Good ’80s Cartoons?A lightweight question as the weekend approaches: if people were still making prime-time shows into concurrently-running Saturday...
UncategorizedFormula Television And Its Non-DiscontentsThe blog Monsters of Television has a really good post on "formula" television shows and what makes the successful ones work . All...
UncategorizedKimmels and BitsI know this is dangerously close to turning into the late-night-wars blog, but I can’t resist putting up yet another clip that...
UncategorizedShe Watches Leno On Oprah So You Don’t Have ToUPDATE : Here is a full transcript of the Leno/Oprah victimfest . Also, Gawker TV has its usual collection of clips from the event...
UncategorizedMelodrama MusingsThis is a short post that should probably be a longer post, but I don’t really have a lot of clear observations to make on this...
UncategorizedShout! Factory To Complete "Leave It To Beaver" On DVDThis is one of the most worthwhile projects Shout! Factory will undertake this year . Leave It To Beaver only had two seasons...
UncategorizedCHUCK and Bottle ShowsLast night’s episode of Chuck was clearly what is known as a "bottle show," an episode filmed in such a way as to come in under...