UncategorizedFlop TV Weekend: BAY CITY BLUESI recently got some tapes/discs of flop shows, some good, some bad. So I’m going to try something a little different with the...
UncategorizedViolence Good, Sex BadI haven’t seen the episode of Law and Order: SVU that Lee Goldberg pans here , but one of the points he makes is a very...
UncategorizedThe Cancellation CwestionThis critics’ roundtable on "egregiously canceled shows " brings up the obvious question: what is an unfair cancellation? Most of...
UncategorizedAddendum on SPORTS NIGHTTo follow up on my earlier post about Sports Night and why I’m not a big fan of the show: after I wrote that post, I re-watched...
UncategorizedA Great Big Ratings OuchI didn’t expect the season premiere of Pushing Daisies to do the kind of numbers the series premiere did, but getting beat by...
UncategorizedMY THREE SONS? Really? Truly?It used to be that you could predict which shows were likely to be butchered on DVD. Not no more. First came The Fugitive , a show...
CultureNo little synagogue on the prairieA new Canadian comedy series goes out of its way to emphasize that it’s not a ‘Jewish’ show
UncategorizedTurn Off the Music on PUSHING DAISIESI know Pushing Daisies is so sugary-sweet it can cause cavities; and that’s to say nothing of all the pie puns and silly names and...
UncategorizedIs It Time For Sitcoms To Go Back to Videotape?Yes, it’s another "what’s wrong with the multi-camera sitcom?" post. (Nobody ever gets tired of those, since we TV-analyst types...
UncategorizedA Very Timely CartoonIn 1933, Walter Lantz made a cartoon starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit called "Confidence," where the Depression causes harm to...