(1/12 – 1/18) Yes, of course, the big story this week was the return of American Idol. It didn’t disappoint, from a numbers perspective. Both installments easily won their nights. We all expected that though, right? The more interesting bit of the Idol story was the effect the show had, or didn’t have, on the […]
With the real White House changing hands this week, I started to reminisce about some of my favorite TV presidents past. In no particular order (other than from worst to best): Allison Taylor, 24: No offense intended, President Taylor, but we just don’t know much about you yet. To be honest, I don’t know any […]
(Season 7, Episode 2 – “10:00 AM – 11:00 AM” & “11:00 AM – 12:00 PM” – Season Premiere, Part 2) “You’re running out of time. You don’t have a better option.” – Jack to Larry, when Renee tries to convince Larry to let Jack talk to Tony Well! I just KNEW that Tony Almeida wasn’t a bad […]
(Season 7, Episode 1 – “8:00 AM – 9:00 AM” and “9:00 AM – 10:00 AM” – Season Premiere) “What happened to you? What the hell happened to you?” Jack to Tony How nice to have Jack back. And he has a kick-ass female partner, to boot. But first, he’s being grilled by a grand jury for working over […]
(1/05 – 1/11) TV for 2009 started spinning up the turbos last week, and will be at full boost when Idol comes online this week. That will, of course, send numbers in all kinds of crazy directions. It should anyway, unless I got the animal sacrifices and the Gregorian chanting right this time. Once I […]
(11/23 – 11/29) It really wasn’t a good week for television, for the viewers, or the networks. The holiday had schedules shuffled all about, and actual new content was a little tougher to come by. The story of the week, of course, was the return of Jack Bauer, briefly. FOX let loose with their 24 […]
Ooh, those bad guys picked the wrong school to go after. They had no idea what they were getting into, and when they drove into the school and Jack knew they were headed that way, my son and I were whooping it up but good with “Bring it!” and “You wanna torture Jack? Get in […]
