UncategorizedSpinning global guilt from the Golden GlobesAs Ricky Gervais tears a strip off Hollywood, the stars strive for sincerity at a bash overshadowed by Haiti.
UncategorizedScenes from a television warThe Conan-Leno fight is clearly a generational one. I have yet to hear anyone in my online social network declare for "Team...
UncategorizedFailing UpwardJeff Zucker is a strangely fascinating figure. He’s like one of those baseball managers -- Chuck Tanner , or someone like that --...
UncategorizedNBC Is Not a Real Network, Take 4According to Multiple Sources™, the cast of Glee was supposed to be featured in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, until NBC...
UncategorizedNBC Is Not a Real Network, Take 3Please read Linda Holmes’s piece on NBC’s decision to cancel Southland after ordering, and then not airing, a second season. The...
UncategorizedBen Silverman Leaving NBC To Spend More Time With Fred SilvermanAnd there was much... not rejoicing, just slapping of foreheads and cries of "what was NBC thinking in the first place?"...
CultureConan better keep Jay on the teamO’Brien may deliver the right demographic, but mass audiences prefer the unhip Leno
UncategorizedThe First "How I Met Your Mother" ImitatorEvery successful show inspires imitators, but How I Met Your Mother hasn’t had many imitators -- probably because until 2008, it...
UncategorizedBen Silverman’s Dream Has Been CrushedBy which I mean, of course, that Knight Rider has been cancelled. It seems a little unfair that Heroes should go on while Knight...
UncategorizedNBC 10 p.m. Programs Of the PastAs NBC prepares to Leno-ize the 10 p.m. slot starting next fall , I thought I’d remind myself of some of the NBC shows that have...