CBS and the Law of Competitive BalanceOne more comment on the U.S. fall TV schedule announcements: CBS, which is thought of as the network with the most stable...
Godard makes his absence visibleThe riddling oracle of the French New Wave is still messing with our heads
Reading between the lines of Michael Ignatieff’s latest speechThey said it couldn’t be done, but we found a way to make politics 7% more boring.
Everything Got CanceledAs the networks tell us how wonderful their new fall pickups are going to be, Lee Goldberg looks at what happened to the last crop...
The law is an ass, but must it bray so loudly?Behold the compound stupidity that emerges from ill-made privacy law. There was a terrible murder near the entrance of Edmonton’s...
What I’m readingFor pleasure, Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson (gripping; occasionally jarring) and Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk, an elegant and book...
Mr. BubbleI honestly don’t care whether the PMO actually rewrote questions to Stephen Harper at yesterday’s whatcha-ma-whosit about...
An Abstinence Video By a Politician and His MistressU.S. Congressman Mark Souder announced his resignation today after admitting that he’d had an affair with a woman whom Fox News...
Too Many Cameras? Or Too Few?There are a surprising number of worthwhile, "Tolja"-free posts at Deadline Hollywood Daily since Nellie Andreeva (formerly of the...