The Terrible Show That Launched the Career Of....I was going to use this for a "Weekend Flop" post, but I couldn’t find any episodes of it online; instead I’ll just embed the...
Our 100-Question MissionOne thing I forgot to mention in my post about this 100 Questions show: as I noted in my post about the ill-fated remake of the...
How to lose a counter-insurgency: stop protecting the peopleFrom today’s National Post, about a ’ drawback’ of Canadian troops and the dismantling of an armed outpost in Taliban-controlled...
"Damn, It’s a Shelley Hack! That’s Like Gettin’ a Shemp!"Sony/Columbia is the most unpredictable studio when it comes to TV on DVD, sometimes waiting years between releases. They hardly...
The 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...
Ghosts Of CBC Schedules PastThe CBC’s Richard Stursberg takes to the pages of the Toronto Star to argue that "CBC TV’s Never Been Better." He’s responding to...
All in: America’s gamble in IraqI’ve blogged previously about Thomas Ricks’ new book, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in...
Weekend Flop Viewing: WORKING STIFFSAfter the aforementioned, horrible, and never-to-be-mentioned-again Who’s Watching the Kids? , Paramount still liked Jim Belushi...
Is Jim Parsons a Supporting Actor?Noel Murray at the AV Club has an interview with Jim Parsons (the thinking man’s Jaleel White), an excellent interview that places...
For a Comment On David Souter’s Retirement...TV Guidance asked Homer Simpson, longtime U.S. Supreme Court watcher and father of future Supreme Court Chief Justice Bart Simpson...