UncategorizedFun Fun Fun FunThis is the music video that was released last month and suddenly became the Plan 9 of bubblegum pop a month later. One of the...
UncategorizedCable Networks Have Hits and Flops NowI’m a bit late to this discussion, but I took a slightly different meaning from this piece, where Tim Goodman argues that basic...
UncategorizedThe Abandonment of Cable NewsIt looks like cable news has, as this article puts it , reached a peak: last year all three major U.S. cable news networks lost...
UncategorizedThe ’90s, Age of Obscure Pop-Culture ReferencesA comment on my earlier post rightly singled out Mystery Science Theatre 3000 as an example of a show that would toss out...
Uncategorized"Broad Initiative," Whatever That MeansI know it’s easy to feel less than optimistic about home-grown English-language television in Canada. Then I see press releases...
UncategorizedJapan Tsunami CoverageThere will be more soon. On cable news, CNN and CBC Newsworld have been covering it for a while, as has AJE and Fox News; I don’t...
UncategorizedEverything Gets DatedI’ve been thinking about Matt Zoller Seitz’s piece on cultural references from The Simpsons , and whether pop-culture jokes doom a...
UncategorizedHBO Wants To Make Blogs ExplodeHere’s what we have to look forward to, probably next year : Though Moore isn’t great at doing convincing accents (and it’s hard...
UncategorizedJulie Taymor: The Charlie Sheen Of BroadwayI know stories about the Spider-Man musical have worn out their welcome even more than Charlie Sheen stories; at least we can see...