TelevisionTV title fight: short vs. longWhy Girls, Bates Motel and New Girl are going with minimal title sequences
UncategorizedTheme Songs That Secretly Have LyricsIt’s good news that there will be an "official" season 1 release (split in two, as is Paramount’s wont) of Bonanza , because a lot...
UncategorizedUnderrated Theme SongsDoes anybody have an example of a TV theme song that is underrated -- one that is not usually named among the all-time great...
UncategorizedTheme Songs That Are Musically Up-To-DateHere’s an obscure TV theme song that I just found on YouTube (a pretty good one) that brings up a question: how often do TV shows...
UncategorizedWhen Bad Things Happen To Good Theme SongsOne other thing about theme songs (and they still exist, sort of!) is that if the show runs long enough, the theme song will...
UncategorizedGood Shows With Bad Theme SongsI agree with most of what Noel Murray writes in his review of season 1 of The Paper Chase . (The season also has some episodes...
UncategorizedMost Title Sequences In One Year?One thing I regret most about the disappearance of full-length title sequences is that we can’t use them to track the changes in a...
UncategorizedDifferent Categories Of TV Intros (Part 1)Last week I was advocating a return to the full-length TV intro, as opposed to just the title or a 20-second blink-and-you-miss-it...
UncategorizedMost Exposition In a Theme Song?You know my love of theme songs that explain the premise -- a lost art, at least for the moment. (Networks don’t have time to do...
UncategorizedThe Guy Who Dubbed This Probably Doesn’t Have Much of a Movie CareerWith this post I’ve pretty much exhausted my "random stuff I found on YouTube" quota for the next century, but: you know, the...