UncategorizedBEING ERICA Really Is "A Hotly Anticipated New Show"One more thing about Being Erica, premiering tonight at 9: it’s very entertaining, and very promising -- definitely worth a...
UncategorizedWeekend Flop Viewing: SUPERTRAINIn honour of the death of the great crime-fiction writer Donald E. Westlake , here’s one of his least-prestigious but...
UncategorizedBeing Erica is Like Quantum Leap, But Don’t Call It a FantasyThe CBC must really want Being Erica to be a hit , based on the Subway Station Test: the harder a network is trying to promote a...
UncategorizedThe Tale Of The Mismanaged Cartoon CatalogueCartoon Network in the U.S. surprised many viewers (pleasantly) by airing a New Year’s marathon of Looney Tunes -- not Baby Looney...
UncategorizedHappy Viennese New Year!While waiting for the annual TV broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert , conducted this year by Daniel Barenboim...
UncategorizedJust Respond To The Question, TV CharactersWe all can name certain types of scenes that we don’t like, or are usually hard for us to sit through. I was reminded of one of...
UncategorizedAn Obvious But Entertaining Riff On A Famous Showbiz MomentOkay, I know jokes about Shatner’s "Rocket Man" have kinda jumped the shark (now that you’ve got dozens of commenters on YouTube...
UncategorizedWhy Networks Prefer To Own The Shows They ProduceI mentioned a while back that CBS’s success with comedy has been achieved entirely with shows that are produced by outside...
UncategorizedBest on TV — 2008 EditionBest non-romantic relationship Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) on The Big Bang Theory . He’s an asexual scientific...
UncategorizedDisturbing Christmas Cartoons: "Peace On Earth" and "Good Will To Men"One of the most famous and most disturbing Christmas cartoons ever made is Hugh Harman’s 1939 MGM film "Peace On Earth," which was...