I have no idea what day of the week this is. I have been so sick for the past three days, for all I know, it’s Sunday. Sure, I can look up the day (it’s Friday), but that doesn’t mean anything to me. I am completely disoriented. Fortunately, television doesn’t care how disoriented you are. […]
(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 […]
For the last decade CBS has been successful at doing something that the other networks can’t seem to grasp: creating long-running spinoffs from long-running original series. Granted, it’s had a lot of practice doing this ever since the early ’70s. It was during that time that All in the Family begat the popular and well-remembered series The […]
We’re starting to settle into a groove with the 08/09 season now. That’s good for some shows, and rather daunting for others. That should figure in as the networks start handing out full season orders. We saw a couple of those last week (The Mentalist, Terminator:TSCC) that were at opposite ends of the spectrum. Following up on […]
Wow, the giveaway entries for last week’s Mad Men were on fire over the weekend. For those who entered, note that we should be contacting the winners sometime this week. We’ve got two giveaways going up this week. First up: CSI Season 8. We’re giving away five copies of this title this week, in honor […]
8:00p/7:00 Central Pull on your bulletproof vest and tune into the BET’s Hip Hop Awards ’08. Actually, hopefully there won’t be any shootings at this one. The Rays are shooting themselves that they blew game one against the Phillies, but there’s always World Series Game 2 tonight on FOX to even things up. One contestant […]
8:00p/7:00 Central Tonight’s Hole in the Wall two-fer on FOX features face-offs of “North v. South” and “Geek v. Greek.” Meanwhile, hunger pangs start to affect alliances and challenge performances on a new Survivor: Gabon on CBS. Hunger for that ring starts to gnaw on TBS’s ALCS Game 5. After the Phillies knocked out the […]
