UncategorizedMore GeorgeOne of the less successful moments in the late George Carlin’s great career was in 1994 when he did a self-titled sitcom for the...
UncategorizedJaime Has So Many News Links Instead of Original Content, They Replaced Him With a _______It was inevitable, wasn’t it? After they revived Password and announced plans for new versions of Celebrity Family Feud and The...
UncategorizedOh, My Carlin, Oh, My CarlinAfter I read the terrible news about the death of George Carlin , I turned on CNN to see how they were covering it. When they got...
UncategorizedWeekend Viewing: "Boy Meets World"This is mostly an excuse for me to talk about the only show that successfully imitated Friends . You may remember how in the...
UncategorizedThey Called Him Mad!A reader wants to know if I have any thoughts on The New York Times Magazine ’s big piece on Matt Weiner and Mad Men . I don’t...
UncategorizedIt’s In the SAGWill the Screen Actors’ Guild go on strike? I still lean toward "no," but Hollywood is certainly getting nervous . The studios...
UncategorizedNon-ResponseCBS/Paramount home video finally put out an official response on the whole The Fugitive re-scoring fiasco, but it’s really no...
UncategorizedA Successful Re-Tool?So if the great ratings for the season premiere of Weeds hold up, will that make this a case of a show that was retooled and...
UncategorizedCommercials That Scared The ChildrenI found an old videotape my parents made of some TV episodes in early 1983 (January 1983, I think), and got re-acquainted with...
UncategorizedThe Sitcom RevolutionIf Earl Pomerantz ever were to collect and expand his "Story of a Writer" posts into a book, I’d be the first one to buy...