UncategorizedThe Hilarity of Harry ReidDon’t worry, this isn’t a controversy-type post, just a quick look at the apparent ineffectuality of U.S. Senate leader Harry...
UncategorizedMicrosoft vs. Family Guy, Or This Program Has Performed An Illegal OperationThis is yesterday’s news, literally, but Microsoft pulled its sponsorship from the upcoming Family Guy variety special (where Seth...
UncategorizedChuck Klosterman Doesn’t Know What a Laugh Track IsOne of my pet peeves, as a sitcom fan, is the inaccurate use of the term "laugh track." A laugh track is laughter added to a show...
UncategorizedRicky Gervais To Host Golden Globes, Oscars Officially Dull?I heard lots of people saying over the past few months that Ricky Gervais should host the Academy Awards. He’s funny, he’s...
UncategorizedWhere Sitcoms And Opera MeetThis hasn’t happened since Frasier was on the air, but there was an opera-sitcom convergence last night. I don’t know who was the...
UncategorizedA Good Rant Against TV ExecutivesKurt Sutter, creator of the "biker family drama" Sons of Anarchy (which has become a big hit for FX, often beating network shows...
UncategorizedSoupy Sales Dies At Age 83The year of celebrity deaths continues with the death of kids’ TV favourite Soupy Sales . His shows were before my time, and yet...
UncategorizedShe Rocks The Airwaves From Coast To CoastI’m not saying that this is the title sequence that defines the early ’80s, because, well, I’ve never seen a single episode of the...
UncategorizedAgain With Vertical IntegrationYesterday I got to ask a few questions of Richard Plepler, the co-president of HBO, and one of the questions was about so-called...
UncategorizedNow We Are So Unhappy and Bored, We Do The Dance of Joy!Everybody has been talking about Bronson Pinchot’s comments on Tom Cruise in his AV Club "Random Roles." Including Cruise’s...