Jaime Weinman

I love today’s 200th birthday boy, Charles Dickens. I read him a lot in high school, and my favourite things of his were the...

The latest manufactured controversy in the world of punditry is over this ad, which ran during the Super Bowl to tell viewers that...

Two links to people doing some smart thinking about television programs: - Robert David Sullivan, whose work I’ve been reading and...

Will M.I.A.’s middle finger change TV the way Janet Jackson’s nipple did?

Watching Smash , and thinking about untold stories about the making of a musical, reminded me that I recently enjoyed reading...

The thing about Smash that was most striking to me, almost from the first non-musical scene, is that it is one of the...

Book by Lori Andrews

I don’t really know what to say about the X Factor fire-pocalypse , with everyone except Simon Cowell being booted off the show as...

’I’m not concerned about the very poor’

By tapping into niche markets ignored by cable, the Internet can fill a void