Are you feeling the excitement of the new TV season yet? I certainly am. Last night we got the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and tonight J.J. Abrams and FOX are going to be delivering Fringe. It's… Read More ›
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Hole in the Wall Nothing But a Big, Empty Space
I come to you today to talk about a national tragedy. No, strike that, apparently it's an international travesty. I sat down last night after Mad Men to watch a game show on FOX called Hole in the Wall. To… Read More ›
Ramsay’s Nightmares Not Quite Scary Enough
Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am. I am excited, and there's very little you or anyone else (save the television gods) can do it about it. Last night, for me, the television season truly began. Last night Kitchen Nightmares… Read More ›
Samurai Girl Isn’t Heaven in My Book
Coming of age stories, no matter the medium, always seem to be terribly popular. The transition from childhood to adulthood is something we all go through. It's a hard enough time in all our lives, but, in order to make… Read More ›
What I Watched on My Summer Vacation
The new television season is almost upon us, and, quite frankly, I can't wait for it to commence. While some shows have premiered during the past two weeks, it is this week when “my shows” start premiering. We've already talked… Read More ›
The Office Brings Its Fourth Season to DVD
It's a new rite of the end of summer – just before the new television season starts, a plethora of boxed sets from the last television season are released to DVD. One of the funniest of those series arrives on… Read More ›
More on What I’ll be Watching This Fall
Earlier this week you and I discussed my fall viewing schedule… in part. We'd already, as I'm quite sure you recall discussed Mondays, and now we've taken care of Tuesday and Wednesday as well. Those were pretty easy days, because,… Read More ›
Does One Eleventh Hour Plus One Eleventh Hour Give You Twenty-Two?
This fall, CBS will premiere a new, semi-sci-fi series in which one man (with some help, of course) thwarts mad scientists (sort of, anyway). Entitled Eleventh Hour, the series is actually a remake of a British series of the same… Read More ›
I Wouldn’t Exactly Call This Raising the Bar
Legal procedural dramas are not exactly a new species of television show. Law & Order guru Dick Wolf himself tried to get two series about the NY district attorney's office off the ground in the L&O universe (or at least… Read More ›
Well, You’ll End up Being Blue if You Watch This Elephant
If one picks up a copy of the new DVD release The Blue Elephant, one instantly gets the impression simply by looking at the front cover that the movie is meant for kids of all ages. After all, the cover… Read More ›
A Little Bit on a Lot of Things – The Olympics, Politics, and My Fall TV Schedule
Happy days are here again… almost. The Olympics are finished, and, as you know, that pleases me to no end. No longer will I have to deal with watching athletes see their “lifelong” dreams shattered due to an inglorious fall…. Read More ›
Talking Tools and Fairy Instruments – There’s More Handy Manny and Little Einsteins on DVD
One of the most important things in children's programming is that it be enjoyable (or at the very least, inoffensive) for adults. One of the great failings of much children's programming is that the adult watching it with the child… Read More ›
Boy, That Gavin & Stacey Sure do Get Along Better Than Ned Did With Her
The course of true love never did run smooth. Such is certainly the case in the new (“new” in that it hasn't aired in this country yet) BBC America comedy Gavin & Stacey. Premiering on August 26, the series follows… Read More ›
Eureka Goes All Bill Murray
Have you ever seen Groundhog Day? No? Well, how about Eureka last night, because it was, essentially, the same plot device… not that there's anything wrong with that. Last night's episode featured Sheriff Carter reliving the same day over and… Read More ›
Top Gear Uses My Name (But Not in Vain)
What do you want me to tell you? What can I possibly say to you? I've waited four long months to be able to tell you this. Every Monday night I've sat down, turned on the TV, watched my favorite… Read More ›
Is It Me, Or Is It Primeval?
There are times when I watch a television show that has all the elements that I usually enjoy, and yet something fails to click. Despite my being able to check off all the boxes I use to determine whether or… Read More ›
I Wonder if the Olympics Could Have a Skins Game
Okay, enough with barely pubescent girls describing the pinnacle of their careers and lives and how they've always known this was for them and this is the greatest moment in their whole entire lives. Enough of the incredible phenom (and… Read More ›
Hooray for Smart People
Smart people sometimes do stupid things. That tends to be because they’re not all-around smart, they’re book smart or worldly smart or people smart but certainly not all around smart. In the case of Smart People, the people in question… Read More ›
Eureka Goes for Some Good, Old-Fashioned, Rucks
There are certain actors and actresses who are forever associated with certain roles. Some actors enjoy such association and some don't. Both attitudes are understandable. 30 years after playing a character for a few short months (in the case of… Read More ›
What a Night, The Middleman & Top Gear Both Talk 007
You know what we don't discuss often enough? Okay, there are plenty of answers to that, everything from politics to my hopefully nearing an end quest to find my daughter a preschool to the merits of a good hybrid golf… Read More ›
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