Jaime Weinman

NBC just can’t catch a break, and by "can’t catch a break" I mean that they bring all their problems on themselves. The latest...

A long time ago, I used to joke that all of Canadian politics could be explained in terms of "Jem" songs. Then "Jem" got popular...

NBC is betting that audiences are still fascinated by the backstage antics of theatre people

Producer, agent and New York columnist Gavin Polone is a show-biz insider if ever there was one, so his column on why he’s for...

Musicals are breaking box-office records even as reviewers pour on the vitriol

I highly recommend Todd VanDerWerff’s latest TV think piece, "In Defense of Slow TV," where he argues that sometimes it helps to...

Every time Spielberg doesn’t get a directing nomination for a movie that got nominated , I feel obligated to pull out this old...

As part of its campaign to get us all watching Smash before it airs "live" on February 6 (more thoughts on Smash itself coming...

The Company Man (air date: December 7, 1997) (Note: The last review in this series was here ; reviews of season 1, where "The...

This is a question that I occasionally have to turn over in my mind when I think about something like the ratings of American Idol...