UncategorizedThe Big Hold-UpI just received the first season of Bonanza , which CBS/Paramount is releasing in the split-season format -- two half-seasons...
UncategorizedStanding Up For JayThe Jay Leno Show approacheth (September 14, for those of you into calendar-marking), and with it, a lot of confusion as to the...
UncategorizedOne Thought On the Poster For the SMURFS MovieIf a big studio is going to put out its first poster for a big-budget CGI movie version of The Smurfs, shouldn’t it look like...
UncategorizedTwo TV-Related Articles Worth Reading1. David Simon, creator of The Wire (aka "TV for people who claim not to own TV sets") says that television as a medium has...
UncategorizedHow To Save Network TVJosef Adalian talked to a bunch of anonymous "executives and agents" about how to save network TV, and heard five basic...
UncategorizedShows You Liked Better After Crass Re-Tooling?Here’s a question for the weekend: are there any shows that you thought got better after they were re-tooled in a big, probably...
UncategorizedPricing ProblemsI know where Noel Murray is coming from when he says he finds it harder to guess the prices on The Price is Right, and that the...
UncategorizedActing vs. PersonalityJust a quick follow-up to my Joss Whedon post, below: one commenter understandably finds it weird for me to say that Alexis...
CultureWhat happened to Quentin Tarantino?The director of ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Kill Bill’ once epitomized the future of moviemaking. But now he’s mostly interested in movies of the past.
UncategorizedSo What Happened With The Geminis and GAS?Why didn’t Corner Gas get nominated for any Gemini Awards at all (which you’ve got to admit is pretty weird, even in the unlikely...