Archives
- 2009.02.20: The Mayor of Television Salutes You
- 2009.02.19: Haven't written that Oscar acceptance speech yet? Denis Leary is here to help you out
- 2009.02.19: Catch Conan O'Brien in the funny 12:35 a.m. hour while you still can
- 2009.02.19: Those youngsters are going to kill off TV as we know it
- 2009.02.18: Cancelled, or soon to be? That doesn't mean you don't rate a spot in the PaleyFest
- 2009.02.18: Should TV Land wash Fred Sanford's mouth out with soap?
- 2009.02.17: Credit where credit is due?
- 2009.02.17: They grow up so fast, SpongeBob SquarePants edition
- 2009.02.17: Tragic irony
- 2009.02.17: It costs money to be a flake - just ask Michael Jackson
- 2009.02.16: Joss Whedon and Fox might like to have their memories erased after seeing Friday's ratings for "Dollhouse"
- 2009.02.16: Last night I had the strangest dream
- 2009.02.16: "Leverage:" "I'm a functioning alcoholic - the trick is not to get hung up on the 'alcoholic,' but celebrate the 'functioning' part of the sentence"
- 2009.02.13: Wishing that the crystal ball was a little hazier
- 2009.02.13: "Flight of the Conchords:" Jemaine's worst-case scenario
- 2009.02.13: "The Simpsons:" "Take My Life, Please"
- 2009.02.13: Looking for love in all the wrong places on television
- 2009.02.13: Confessions of a what-a-holic?
- 2009.02.12: Christopher Titus has issues.
- 2009.02.12: ABC's body count
- 2009.02.12: How not to promote a movie
- 2009.02.12: Our weekly weak "Lost" joke
- 2009.02.12: Stephen Colbert finds Glenn Beck to be a pain in the ...
- 2009.02.11: NBC News reporters don trenchcoats and battle crime
- 2009.02.11: Unfair and unbalanced
- 2009.02.11: The new "Dancing with the Stars" roster is pretty impressive, until you start thinking about it
- 2009.02.10: Americans love their policy-wonk discussions. Who knew?
- 2009.02.10: NBC's just not that into you
- 2009.02.10: Does Fox expect/want/need "Dollhouse" to succeed?
- 2009.02.10: Tonight's episode of "Leverage" features a too-literal metaphor that fortunately doesn't prove fatal
- 2009.02.09: Trust that Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh will be on the other end of tonight's online "Trust Me" discussion
- 2009.02.09: I am f@$&in' done with you professionally: A Christian Bale parody overview
- 2009.02.06: John Updike writes his own eulogy
- 2009.02.06: My goodness, this character on the next episode of "The Closer" certainly is vile
- 2009.02.06: An honest day's work for an honest day's pay
- 2009.02.06: Weighty issues
- 2009.02.05: Now you can procrastinate on getting that digital-conversion gadget for your TV even longer
- 2009.02.05: This Valentine's Day, show you sort of care
- 2009.02.05: Further proof that Hollywood hates you and thinks you're an idiot
- 2009.02.05: Next: on "Lost"
- 2009.02.04: Thanks, but no thanks
- 2009.02.04: Reality TV's effects on one's self worth can be devastating
- 2009.02.04: Crackpot theory of the day: Commercials make TV more enjoyable
- 2009.02.04: The lonesome death of broadcast television, as manifested by the life cycle of a generic sitcom entitled "Surviving Suburbia"
- 2009.02.03: Coming to a draw on Winning the war on terror ... by any means necessary
- 2009.02.03: Oddly enough, the Rod Blagojevich Comedy Show still hasn't been cancelled
- 2009.02.03: Only one in 11 Super Bowl fans tune into NBC's heavily-hyped Monday lineup, while The CW announces new cannon fodder for "American Idol"
- 2009.02.02: Rest easy: "24's" plotline is essentially hogwash
- 2009.02.02: "House:" "I can't die now - I haven't been happy yet"
- 2009.02.01: Did you pay attention to any of the Super Bowl play-by-play calling? Didn't think so
- 2009.01.31: Wally the Dog demonstrates how to turn your eye quizzically toward the camera like Jim in "The Office"
- 2009.01.30: Headlines for these blog entries are only as inspired as their subjects; hence, this one is pretty drab
- 2009.01.29: And now, a show that needs no introduction - wait, maybe it does, so we offer it here - "infoMania"
- 2009.01.29: Has "Lost" lost you? Let us confuse you even more
- 2009.01.29: 3D TV: An overview
- 2009.01.28: "Psych" boots its football episode
- 2009.01.28: The USA Network's football gimmick continues with "Monk"
- 2009.01.28: Those naughty, naughty vegetables
- 2009.01.28: Ratings apparently don't matter when it comes to "Damages," which is fine with me
- 2009.01.27: Something people who still have jobs can spend their money on
- 2009.01.27: All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Rod Blagojevich
- 2009.01.27: Want to steal a car? "Burn Notice" explains it all for you
- 2009.01.27: How we interpret history is determined by history itself, if history kind of stinks
- 2009.01.27: "The Trials of Ted Haggard" is a trial for the open-minded to sit through
- 2009.01.26: My admiration for Rod Blagojevich's gall continues to grow; here's his standup routine on tonight's "Nightline"
- 2009.01.26: Why I am physically incapable of watching the red carpet portion of awards shows
- 2009.01.26: Senator Oprah? Not even Rod Blagojevich is that crazy, and he's plenty crazy
- 2009.01.25: No spoilers in this episode recap for "The Closer." Not much else, either.
- 2009.01.25: Hey, they're handing out yet more awards this afternoon
- 2009.01.24: "The Great Golden Calf of Cable News"
- 2009.01.24: Has the worst show of 2009 already arrived?
- 2009.01.23: News in the news
- 2009.01.22: "Forrest Gump" "Benjamin Button" rakes in the Oscar nominations
- 2009.01.22: "Lie To Me" Vs. "Lost" in the ratings grudge match of, uh, the year week night
- 2009.01.22: Truth is the first victim of, uh, honesty
- 2009.01.22: "Bones:" If your network yanked your show all over the schedule, you'd want to put your eye out, too
- 2009.01.21: News flash: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" remains vital!
- 2009.01.21: Special crack inauguration coverage, albeit a day late, of people with their priorities straight
- 2009.01.20: "Fringe:" The One Where Giant Slugs Climb Out of Corpses' Mouths
- 2009.01.19: Matthew Weiner returns to "Mad Men"
- 2009.01.19: "Dip it in chocolate and say it has no calories:" How the GOP can make people who hate people appeal to people who don't know any better, per "The Daily Show"
- 2009.01.19: What, if anything, have we learned from this winter's TV Press Tour?
- 2009.01.18: "House" moves to Monday, which makes his patients want to kill themselves
- 2009.01.16: At least workplace comedies are preferable to unemployment comedies
- 2009.01.15: Rachel Maddow's peaceable kingdom
- 2009.01.15: TV Press Tour slouches towards its merciful conclusion with a sad, resigned sigh from NBC
- 2009.01.14: Patrick McGoohan, 1928-2009
- 2009.01.13: "Sit Down, Shut Up" and talk about "Arrested Development"
- 2009.01.13: Ask a stupid question, become a pariah
- 2009.01.13: Paula Abdul - really, does anything more need be said?
- 2009.01.13: "The Daily Show's" Jason Jones shows you how to be a thoroughgoing jerk cable-news pundit
- 2009.01.13: Much as he'd like to, Kevin Reilly can't quit NBC
- 2009.01.12: Become educated! "Look Around You" comes to Adult Swim
- 2009.01.12: Ricky Gervais enlivens the Golden Globes
- 2009.01.10: Everything must go! "Battlestar Galactica's" going-out-of-business sale
- 2009.01.09: Writers strike damages "Damages"
- 2009.01.09: Ted Haggard: "We want to answer questions." So why won't he?
- 2009.01.09: Phrase I never thought I'd hear, overheard from an E! publicist discussing the network's TV Press Tour panelists
- 2009.01.09: Not good news for Patrick Swayze
- 2009.01.09: "Prisoner" of Press Tour
- 2009.01.09: Bryan Cranston on winning the Emmy and what's important in life
- 2009.01.08: The digital dilemma
- 2009.01.08: Looking for Comedy in the Hindu World
- 2009.01.07: Richard Belzer on NBC and Jay Leno: "It's the last gasp of a dying network"
- 2009.01.07: The Triumphant Return of TV Press Tour
- 2009.01.01: News flash: Paul Reiser is not dead
- 2008.12.31: TV character of the year
- 2008.12.30: Swindler to the stars
- 2008.12.30: Beating a dead peacock
- 2008.12.29: TV 2008: A look back; a furtive, panicky glimpse over our shoulders; a downward peer into the abyss
- 2008.12.24: "Benjamin Button:" A "Gump" by any other name
- 2008.12.24: The Mayor of Television's Christmas Spectacular
- 2008.12.19: NBC's new bartering system - you design a T-shirt for them, they'll give you a lunch bag, shot glasses and some golf balls
- 2008.12.19: Who says this economy's in bad shape? Some investors just paid $300 million for TV listings that they plan to scrap anyway
- 2008.12.19: People ask Tina Fey odd questions. She answers them. You watch.
- 2008.12.19: The Vice-Deputy Mayor of Film works his on-screen magic, and without resulting in the sort of appallingly manipulative posturing Jim Carrey resorts to in his cringe-worthy "Yes Man" poster
- 2008.12.18: Ari Gold isn't such a tough guy, after all
- 2008.12.18: A drearily predictable item about Pamela Anderson (unless you're a 14-year-old boy, then you'll think it's really hot)
- 2008.12.17: An Email subject header that suggests how Jay Leno will be wowing 'em in in primetime
- 2008.12.17: "The Flight of the Conchords" returns soon, albeit not soon enough for fans, but still, here's the first episode of the new season
- 2008.12.17: In which Your Mayor must consider the spectacle that is Mickey Rourke
- 2008.12.16: CBS tries to smuggle Ebola virus into U.S.?
- 2008.12.16: Meet the new Leno fallout, same as the old Leno fallout
- 2008.12.16: Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanaugh try to make sense of what's happening at NBC, their former (and former hit) network
- 2008.12.15: A TV producer dumps on bad holiday programming for your edification
- 2008.12.12: All you need to know about those "Real Housewives" shows in four minutes
- 2008.12.10: Wally (the dog) congratulates "WALL*E" (the robot) on its winning the L.A. Film Critics Award for Best Film of the Year (and adds a vague threat)
- 2008.12.09: Can Jay Leno succeed in primetime? An advertising agency offers its answer
- 2008.12.09: Leno on Leno
- 2008.12.09: Conan O'Brien on Jay Leno
- 2008.12.09: On Leno, NBC and the future of television
- 2008.12.09: "Children's Hospital:" My, this is in bad taste. Then why am I laughing so hard while watching it?
- 2008.12.08: The mainstream goes viral: NBC introduces Jimmy Fallon's upcoming late-night show online
- 2008.12.08: NBC buries the lede: Gabs about executive shuffles, refuses to talk about layoffs, utterly ignores mentioning that Jay Leno's going to prime time
- 2008.12.05: A tale of two talk show hosts
- 2008.12.04: "30 Rock" knows where its success lies: More of Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, less of what the show was about in the first place
- 2008.12.03: NBC: A day late and a couple of decisions short
- 2008.12.03: A&E's pest-removal reality show "The Exterminators" inspires many gravely irritating thoughts
- 2008.12.03: Crawling to the U.S.A.: Elvis Costello's new talk show
- 2008.12.03: "According to Jim" still draining Americans of their will to live
- 2008.12.02: William Shatner's new talk show doesn't feature him bullying anyone over negotiating travel prices
- 2008.12.02: Tweaks at ABC
- 2008.12.02: Tweaks at CBS
- 2008.12.01: Could you withstand the pressure of being interviewed by Larry King?
- 2008.12.01: Your evidence of The End of Western Civilization du jour: "Bad Girls Club"
- 2008.12.01: "Rosie Live" isn't
- 2008.11.26: "Psych's" Christmas episode allows me to recycle huge chunks of my "Monk" Christmas-episode review
- 2008.11.26: "Monk's" Christmas episode is basically a regular episode with a couple of scenes of faux-holiday inspiration thrown in for good measure
- 2008.11.25: "Sons of Anarchy:" "I'm ready (to die). Are you?"
- 2008.11.25: Stephen Colbert's gift to us all
- 2008.11.24: The CW tries to stanch the hemorrhaging, but not too hard
- 2008.11.24: The new episode of "House" almost had me lunging for the Vicodin
- 2008.11.23: "The Shield" delivers a supremely satisfying series finale
- 2008.11.21: All you need to know about lunatics with critters-in-nature shows in under five minutes
- 2008.11.21: Sarah Palin talks some stuff while a turkey is slaughtered in the background - it's a metaphor, don'tcha know
- 2008.11.20: Resisting the urge to do the obvious "Pushing Daisies" headline
- 2008.11.20: Putting The Mayor of Television on the couch
- 2008.11.20: The world's out to get me: TV's hottest genre
- 2008.11.19: Oh, look, a show that capitalizes on controversy
- 2008.11.19: When dumb TV theories attack
- 2008.11.19: Hugging it out on the set of "The Mentalist"
- 2008.11.18: Sanity's "Twilight"
- 2008.11.17: NBC attempting to kill Ann Curry
- 2008.11.14: All you need to know about those TV crime procedurals where they solve murders just by thinking real hard, in less than four minutes
- 2008.11.14: The provenance of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch - a joke from 400 A.D.?
- 2008.11.14: Ricky Gervais considers his manhood
- 2008.11.14: Imagine "Sybil" as a comedy - Showtime has
- 2008.11.13: YouTube for YouRubes
- 2008.11.13: Yet even more additional woes for NBC, which has plenty to begin with; ABC pals around with terrorists
- 2008.11.12: The Curious Case of the Puritan's Potty Mouth
- 2008.11.11: Spanking the networks
- 2008.11.11: A warm and fuzzy "House?"
- 2008.11.11: Keith Olbermann proffers a warm and squishy argument against Prop 8
- 2008.11.10: Obama and Palin's future TV projects
- 2008.11.10: Is "Heroes"' resurrection dependent upon "Pushing Daisies"' demise?
- 2008.11.10: The People's Choice Awards nominees are annoying, again
- 2008.11.10: Fox's winter 2009 schedule seems, uh, problematic
- 2008.11.06: What Obama/McCain have planned for America
- 2008.11.05: Even Fox News doesn't like Sarah Palin anymore
- 2008.11.05: When "24"-related press releases promise one thing but deliver another
- 2008.11.05: CNN finds a way to trivialize the most important night of a generation, while Gore Vidal elevates sanctimonious befuddlement to an art form
- 2008.11.05: Wally (the dog) is a True American Patriot
- 2008.11.04: Well, one can hope
- 2008.11.03: Tales of three fat guys
- 2008.11.03: More moves at NBC to improve the quality - oh, never mind
- 2008.10.31: A discussion of the upcoming film "Frost/Nixon" then takes us on a completely different tangent
- 2008.10.31: "Mad Men:" The show may be done, but we're not done with the show
- 2008.10.31: Don't boo "The Simpsons"' latest "Treehouse of Horror"
- 2008.10.30: Today's "30 Rock" review, plus some "30 Rock" news
- 2008.10.30: Barack Obama's landslide victory over the competition (in TV ratings, at least)
- 2008.10.30: No operators were standing by after Barack Obama's Infomercial
- 2008.10.29: Vic Mackey's last beat-down will be on a projectionist on the Fox lot
- 2008.10.28: Another reason NBC's Ben Silverman merits his own spot in this blog's tag cloud
- 2008.10.28: TV this week: All Obama, all the time
- 2008.10.28: Your fall season scorecard, so far
- 2008.10.28: It's true: The Presidential campaign is more entertaining than "My Own Worst Enemy"
- 2008.10.27: Reshuffling the deck chairs at NBC
- 2008.10.27: Robin Tunney on escaping "Prison Break"
- 2008.10.24: BULLETIN: People don't want to watch dying people on television
- 2008.10.24: The Hollywood Reporter serves as Sarah Palin's job-search engine
- 2008.10.24: WE tv is looking for a few reprehensible women
- 2008.10.24: Tina Fey can't help herself: She's one part "one part high-school bitchy"
- 2008.10.23: Tina Fey gets a little of her own Sarah Palin medicine
- 2008.10.22: "Mad Men:" "If the world is still here on Monday, we can talk"
- 2008.10.22: Christopher Buckley on reality trumping satire
- 2008.10.21: How good news gets disseminated in Hollywood
- 2008.10.21: Dying to get on TV - literally
- 2008.10.20: "Crusoe" stranded by viewers; another "Daily Show" defection to CBS; "Mad Men" gets season three
- 2008.10.20: "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives:" Universes for everyone (now you're really living)
- 2008.10.20: You might want to watch tonight's episode of "Chuck" because Nicole Richie finally gets what she deserves
- 2008.10.19: Palin comparison - the "SNL" clips: "My gut is telling me it might be a bad idea for the campaign"
- 2008.10.18: All you need to know about HGTV in less than three minutes
- 2008.10.17: "Mad Men:" "The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone"
- 2008.10.17: It's the "Eleventh Hour" for "Life on Mars"
- 2008.10.16: Can "The Mentalist" guess what questions I'll be asking?
- 2008.10.15: Meet "Joe the Plumber"
- 2008.10.15: If They Don't Win, It's a Shame
- 2008.10.14: Answer: "This critically acclaimed Emmy winner is really reveling in its success"
- 2008.10.14: Bad Ideas of Our Time
- 2008.10.14: A night of "Worsts"
- 2008.10.13: A treehouse grows in Manhattan: NBC's goofy publicity stunt
- 2008.10.13: All Tina Fey, all the time (except on NBC Thursdays)
- 2008.10.13: Tina Fey to plan her own space mission if Sarah Palin is elected
- 2008.10.10: TV responds to the Global Market Meltdown
- 2008.10.10: Thursday's new-show showdown: "Life on Mars" vs. "Eleventh Hour"
- 2008.10.10: Why, "Samantha Who?" Why change?
- 2008.10.10: "Mad Men:" "Why would you deny yourself something you want?"
- 2008.10.09: Who needs a turn-off-your-TV movement when we've already got Wednesday night?
- 2008.10.09: Critic, criticize thyself IV
- 2008.10.09: Critic, criticize thyself III
- 2008.10.09: Critic, criticize thyself II
- 2008.10.09: Critic, criticize thyself
- 2008.10.08: "The Office:" "I don't want to work in an environment where that type of behavior is tolerated"
- 2008.10.08: The two words that shook all punditry: "That One"
- 2008.10.08: What are they smoking over at "The Sarah Silverman Program?" Actually, it's pretty obvious
- 2008.10.07: Today's scorecard
- 2008.10.07: When product licensing goes haywire
- 2008.10.07: Rescuing "Heroes" from becoming a goat
- 2008.10.06: A heady quest
- 2008.10.06: Tina Fey rules the world
- 2008.10.06: The CW does it again (unfortunately)
- 2008.10.06: Friday is the new Saturday
- 2008.10.06: "Chuck:" A thorough, insightful review of one minute and 45 seconds of online content
- 2008.10.05: Tina Fey does it again, again
- 2008.10.05: "Mad Men:" Which epigrammatic line defines tonight's episode?
- 2008.10.03: The maverick hockey mom Joe Sixpack's guide to debating the fate of a troubled nation (wink, wink)
- 2008.10.03: Can a really likable woman reinvent herself? (And we're not talking about Sarah Palin)
- 2008.10.02: Celebrity auction doodad for Habitat for Humanity
- 2008.10.02: A whole lot of lovin' is what we'll be bringin'/We'll make you happy!
- 2008.10.02: CMT thinks TV critics are dumber than a box of Toby Keith videos
- 2008.10.02: Wednesday-night ratings: Bodies everywhere (and we're not just talking about "Criminal Minds"' storyline)
- 2008.10.01: Do you enjoy getting shouted at by borderline psychopaths?
- 2008.10.01: "Friday Night" "Lights" up DirecTV
- 2008.10.01: ABC relaunches three sophomore shows and hopes for better luck than NBC had with "Chuck" and "Life"
- 2008.10.01: The first blog entry of a new month, so we'll make it really memorable by discussing, uh, last night's ratings
- 2008.09.30: Newman's Own tribute - update
- 2008.09.30: Newman's Own tribute
- 2008.09.30: "The Office" For Dummies
- 2008.09.30: Monday Monday, can't trust that day
- 2008.09.29: OK, the economy's in shambles, but let's discuss what's really important
- 2008.09.29: Desultory ratings doodad
- 2008.09.29: "Life:" "Can you remember being happy?"
- 2008.09.29: "Chuck" Versus the Amazing Disappearing Crowd Scenes
- 2008.09.28: Tina Fey does it again
- 2008.09.28: "Superjail!": Superfail!
- 2008.09.28: "Desperate Housewives:" "Maybe I don't deserve to be happy"
- 2008.09.27: "The Amazing Race:" You could get exhausted just watching; just imagine competing in it - also, Your Mayor is invited to attend the New York Reality TV School so he can help bring quality Television to its knees (as if TV needs any more problems)
- 2008.09.26: You'll just have to read this one for yourself in order to believe it
- 2008.09.26: "Mad Men:" "Losers tonight; winners in general"
- 2008.09.26: Jim and Pam are happy, and Thursday's ratings aren't too depressing ...
- 2008.09.25: Do you think you're at least as smart as TV's political pundits? Now's your chance to prove it!
- 2008.09.25: Fox's Sunday cartoon lineup, briefly explicated
- 2008.09.25: Lesson learned: Don't hack off David Letterman
- 2008.09.25: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert make a lovely radical couple
- 2008.09.25: Wednesday's schedule in shambles, like the economy
- 2008.09.24: Something cutely menacing that came in the mail today that comments wryly on our culture of ironic decadence
- 2008.09.24: Whistling past the graveyard: The financial crisis explained
- 2008.09.24: Lines and scenes from Sunday's episode of "Californication" that play differently now that David Duchovny has confessed to sex addiction
- 2008.09.24: Les Moonves wants me to be homeless and destitute
- 2008.09.24: Fall season new show shrug alert
- 2008.09.24: Our first hit of the new fall season
- 2008.09.24: We can't go on together with "Criminal Minds" - Elvis Presley, sort of
- 2008.09.23: Conan O'Brien's toy trains considered too disturbing for Southland audiences
- 2008.09.23: Poll: TV viewers steadfast in their resolve to avoid quality programming
- 2008.09.23: Bad news for the fanboys
- 2008.09.23: "The New Adventures of Old Christine:" "I don't want to be proposed to while I'm cleaning up hairballs"
- 2008.09.22: Celebrate David Caruso Day by watching a semi-coherent episode of "CSI: Miami"
- 2008.09.22: "Heroes," "Worst Week," stifling a yawn
- 2008.09.22: "How I Met Your Mother" manages a legitimately good episode
- 2008.09.22: On TV, even smart people are dumb
- 2008.09.21: I'll just briefly mention the debacle of the Emmy ceremony hosts, and then we'll all promise to never discuss it again, OK?
- 2008.09.19: NBC suddenly realizes the fall season's beginning
- 2008.09.19: The Parallel Universe Fall-TV Schedule
- 2008.09.18: Apocalyptic ruminations about the Emmys
- 2008.09.17: Carrie Bradshaw joins the sordid teen publishing empire
- 2008.09.17: "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:" "Cannibalism, racism ... those are decisions that are best left up to the suits in Washington"
- 2008.09.17: Are the networks congenitally incapable of telling the truth?
- 2008.09.17: The Broadcast Network TV Sitcom: 1949-2008
- 2008.09.16: "9021 -" Oh, snap
- 2008.09.16: CNN reports; you decide (what they mean)
- 2008.09.16: No "Mad Men" non-discussion this week
- 2008.09.16: TV Awards that aren't the Emmys, but may be more interesting
- 2008.09.16: The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator
- 2008.09.15: Mind-reading novelist Christopher Buckley traveled to the future to predict how America would react to Sarah Palin
- 2008.09.15: "Fringe:" "I want to take a shower from the inside out"
- 2008.09.15: "House:" "You're really milking this bereavement thing, aren't you?"
- 2008.09.15: "Weeds:" The Book of Revelations
- 2008.09.14: "The Closer:" Closer to mayhem than character drama
- 2008.09.14: Infinite Sadness
- 2008.09.14: Who says there are no new ideas in Hollywood? Pt. 2
- 2008.09.13: Who says there are no new ideas in Hollywood?
- 2008.09.12: "Mad Men:" "Nothing happened here"
- 2008.09.12: Hunter S. Thompson on Sept. 12, 2001
- 2008.09.11: "Primeval:" "I'm finished with the past; I just don't know if it's finished with me"
- 2008.09.11: Charlie Gibson went to Alaska to interview Sarah Palin, and all he got was this lousy T-Shirt
- 2008.09.11: "Mad Men:" Your guess is as good as mine
- 2008.09.11: An Abbreviated History of Abject Pain
- 2008.09.10: "Burn Notice:" "Surveillance is the leading cause of weight gain among operatives" (and TV viewers too, no doubt)
- 2008.09.10: "You're not using your brains!": It's a good day to be a 14-year-old boy
- 2008.09.08: The TV Zone
- 2008.09.07: The Alan Ball interview that LA.com didn't want you to see
- 2008.09.06: "Entourage:" Being lucky is better than being good; likewise, getting lucky is better than getting good
- 2008.09.05: "Mad Men:" "Don't concern yourself with aesthetics - you'll get a headache"
- 2008.09.04: Mr. Monk's 100th episode
- 2008.09.04: Educational TV isn't quite as educational as it used to be
- 2008.09.04: Beyond the "Fringe"
- 2008.09.04: Northern Exposure
- 2008.09.03: The forgotten people
- 2008.09.03: Why does "90210" hate America?
- 2008.09.02: "Bones" rewards its stars for three seasons of reasonable success with an all-expenses-paid vacation to London
- 2008.09.02: "The Shield:" This is gonna get messy (and fun)
- 2008.09.01: Baby Got Back
- 2008.08.31: The networks react to Hurricane Gustav - well, two do; one sees an opportunity for publicity
- 2008.08.30: Samantha Bee explains it all for you
- 2008.08.29: "Prison Break" wrests free from the shackles of logic
- 2008.08.29: Coming Soon to a T-Shirt Near You
- 2008.08.29: David Duchovny is Hank Moody
- 2008.08.29: "Mad Men:" "I told you to stop talking"
- 2008.08.28: "Chuck" up at NBC
- 2008.08.28: Is MSNBC "about to blow up?"
- 2008.08.28: "The Daily Show" steals my thunder
- 2008.08.27: MSNBC reporters love Obama, hate each other
- 2008.08.26: Flashback 2: More Great Moments at TV Press Tour
- 2008.08.26: Olympics fans aren't so much into NBC's other shows
- 2008.08.26: ABC greenlights some new shows, finally
- 2008.08.26: Jon Stewart explains it all for you
- 2008.08.25: "Desperate Housewives" takes on a weighty issue
- 2008.08.25: "Dancing with the Stars" throws some ringers into the mix
- 2008.08.25: "America's Toughest Job" is not watching "America's Toughest Job," but it's sorta close
- 2008.08.23: If TV coverage of the Presidential campaign informs your vote in any way, we're all doomed
- 2008.08.22: "Generation Kill:" Mission Accomplished
- 2008.08.22: "Mad Men:" "Why is it so hard to just enjoy things?"
- 2008.08.21: College students have all the fun
- 2008.08.21: Top-Two List of List-Related Press Releases That Came My Way Today
- 2008.08.21: People get paid to count jokes
- 2008.08.21: "Z Rock" is a unbelievably naughty show, but is it a funny show?
- 2008.08.20: Flashback: Great Moments at TV Press Tour
- 2008.08.19: Can you afford not to read this post? Probably, but should you risk it?
- 2008.08.19: Free sneak previews of the new Fall-TV shows
- 2008.08.19: NBC and ABC come through - finally, sort of
- 2008.08.19: Lawrence Fishburne joins "CSI," and they're just basically making it up as they go along
- 2008.08.18: A Public Service Message from The Mayor of Television
- 2008.08.18: Odds and more odds (and a few ends, too)
- 2008.08.18: TV tries on real-world politics for size, and finds itself sorely lacking
- 2008.08.18: "Gemini Division" may or may not be inherently interesting, but its attempt to break out amongst online noise suggests that attention must be paid
- 2008.08.17: Let's face it, someone was going to be offended by "Tropic Thunder"
- 2008.08.16: Bob Costas hosts Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz in a mutual-indifference society
- 2008.08.15: Desperate times lead to desperate measures
- 2008.08.15: This week, "Mad Men's" title may be intended literally
- 2008.08.14: Broadcast networks do a disservice to critics, viewers and, ultimately, themselves
- 2008.08.14: What's shocking about E!'s latest special is how shocking it isn't
- 2008.08.13: BBC America sees your "Gossip Girl" and raises the ante with "Skins"
- 2008.08.13: Why do the Emmys hate America?
- 2008.08.13: Jeff Zucker will kill TV in order to save it
- 2008.08.12: In the future, entire chapters of women's gender studies textbooks will be devoted to "Ashley Paige: Bikini or Bust"
- 2008.08.11: Kathy Lee Gifford gets on some people's nerves. Who knew?
- 2008.08.11: Now that the cat's out of the bag, the media get to indulge in some omphaloskepsis regarding this John Edwards mess
- 2008.08.11: The Great Olympics Opening Ceremony Hoax
- 2008.08.10: "Generation Kill's" Rudy Reyes, America's hottest Marine, explains the real world, with stern words for both President Bush and the rest of us
- 2008.08.09: Bernie Mac, 1957-2008
- 2008.08.08: A busy schedule
- 2008.08.08: "Mad Men:" What is up with Don Draper?
- 2008.08.07: Just in case there aren't enough contemporary monsters out there, "Primeval" brings a whole bunch back from the past
- 2008.08.07: Words of wisdom from Tillman the Skateboarding Bulldog
- 2008.08.06: Selective scandal-mongering?
- 2008.08.06: Some "Top Chef" promotional thing that you might want to attend is coming to L.A.
- 2008.08.06: Oh, look, more sex-is-bad hand-wringing
- 2008.08.06: It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel nauseous)
- 2008.08.05: So what's happening on "House" this season? Jesse Spencer has an insight or two to share
- 2008.08.04: Olympics Apathy Update
- 2008.08.04: A website it would really behoove you to visit
- 2008.08.04: Oh, great, now they're going to ruin August, too
- 2008.08.04: The rich get richer
- 2008.08.04: From "High School Musical" to John McCain in one breathtaking paragraph
- 2008.08.02: David Duchovny isn't exactly a clairvoyant
- 2008.08.01: Political discourse in 2008, part 2
- 2008.08.01: Don't want to make the "Mad Men" madder
- 2008.08.01: Political discourse in 2008
- 2008.07.31: If Borat saw E!'s "Pam: Girl on the Loose," he'd go off in search of someone, anyone else
- 2008.07.31: Tillman the Bulldog needs an idea person. Any takers?
- 2008.07.31: When doing good does no good
- 2008.07.31: Well, that's 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back
- 2008.07.31: A contrarian's view of the Olympics
- 2008.07.30: Be like Don Draper and other "Mad Men" characters!
- 2008.07.30: Naughty insights into a musical anarchist who divines sinister motives in those Segway scooters
- 2008.07.29: Which is more reprehensible: Ultimate Fighting or Blogging?
- 2008.07.29: The Emmy Awards people don't seem to want you to watch their little ceremony
- 2008.07.29: Eureka! I think they've got it!
- 2008.07.28: "Mad Men" viewers are poetry buffs, too
- 2008.07.28: "Saving Grace" advocates unhygienic sex
- 2008.07.28: "The Closer" ups its ick factor
- 2008.07.28: Further proof that some TV personalities just don't translate to the big screen
- 2008.07.28: "Mad Men" not only sells the Relax-icizer and Mohawk Airlines; it's also pushing books of poetry, too
- 2008.07.27: Blake Lively on reality and "Gossip Girl" and how "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" was like "The Bourne Supremacy"
- 2008.07.27: LA.com doesn't want you to read these "Mad Men" stories, but we do
- 2008.07.26: It turns out that Bruce Wayne isn't Batman after all; George W. Bush is
- 2008.07.26: Hours of fun!
- 2008.07.24: Elisabeth Moss on the bangs that changed America (or, at least, her career)
- 2008.07.24: Jon Hamm's generosity in this anecdote may overwhelm you
- 2008.07.23: Product placement in TV newscasts: A modest proposal
- 2008.07.23: A news story "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" missed
- 2008.07.23: A "30 Days" episode so shocking even FX wouldn't air it
- 2008.07.22: Lifetime's "Golden" tribute to Estelle Getty
- 2008.07.22: Encyclopedia Brown and the Mysterious Case of the Single-Themed TV Press Tour Reporters
- 2008.07.21: Jay Leno laughs at his impending NBC departure
- 2008.07.18: CBS's "The Mentalist:" Any psychics want to predict whether this'll be a hit?
- 2008.07.18: Something they didn't even bother to make so uninspiring as to really be depressing
- 2008.07.18: CBS touts entertainment, except during its executive press conference
- 2008.07.17: The requisite Emmy analysis essay
- 2008.07.17: Hey, have you heard about this Batman movie? It's pretty good. (This is an employment of understatement for humorous intent.)
- 2008.07.16: What will happen to "Remote-Free TV" when you need the remote again?
- 2008.07.16: "Life (or death?) on Mars:" You make the call
- 2008.07.16: "We're rooting for broadcast television."
- 2008.07.15: Everything you need to know about all those dance shows in 4 minutes and 16 seconds
- 2008.07.15: Jack Bauer saves the day two-hour time bloc
- 2008.07.15: Let's face it - at this point, we're all partisan hacks
- 2008.07.15: Fox News is all about defending Obama when it means covering their own backsides, as well
- 2008.07.14: "Fringe" elements
- 2008.07.14: The current Fox executives don't lie as much as others in the past
- 2008.07.14: TV Press Tour Update: Fox news - Karl Rove won't speak to Congress, but he will chat with TV critics
- 2008.07.13: Why does God allow TV Press Tour to happen?
- 2008.07.13: Bobby Kennedy's daughter Rory on Hillary Clinton's assassination comment
- 2008.07.12: Bonus TV Press Tour jokes for those of you with the perspicacity to read this blog over the weekend
- 2008.07.12: Are you easily offended? If so, then why weren't you outside the Kodak Theatre picketing Ricky Gervais' standup comedy show?
- 2008.07.11: Turnabout is Fox News play
- 2008.07.11: Ricky Gervais: Happy to offend
- 2008.07.10: TV Press Tour update: Slouching Towards Irrelevance
- 2008.07.10: Who do dead celebrities want to win Emmys? All is revealed!
- 2008.07.10: We are experiencing Technical Difficulties
- 2008.07.09: Joel McHale would like the Department of Homeland Security know that this woman is intent on destroying America
- 2008.07.09: Chandra Wilson has Katherine Heigl's ungrateful back
- 2008.07.08: TV Press Tour, Day One: Many words, little meaning
- 2008.07.07: Click & Clack & ... Clank
- 2008.07.07: Those irascible scamps at Fox News and their mad Photoshopping skills!
- 2008.07.06: Elvis Lives!
- 2008.07.06: Hooray! TV Press Tour begins this week! And I withdraw into a three-week-long dark night of the soul!
- 2008.07.03: These Emmy-nomination breaking-news guys have gotten surprisingly lackluster in their efforts
- 2008.07.02: Yet more potential Emmy nominees; yet more potential Emmy losers
- 2008.07.01: Some of these people listed will win an Emmy. Some won't even be nominated.
- 2008.07.01: Coming soon: A TV show encouraging barfing
- 2008.07.01: "Mad Men:" The madness begins
- 2008.06.30: "The Prisoner" to be unshackled on AMC
- 2008.06.30: Do you watch TV? Then you must be old.
- 2008.06.30: "Family Guy's" Seth MacFarlane becomes very rich - again
- 2008.06.29: Wally (the dog) congratulates Pixar on "WALL-E's" $62.5-million opening weekend
- 2008.06.27: Attention, Oprah: An author is offering you foot rubs if you choose his novel for your book club
- 2008.06.27: Emmy's short list
- 2008.06.26: Confirmation on what you probably already knew about Tucker Carlson
- 2008.06.26: "Hopkins:" ABC's documentary series has a twist that not even "Swingtown" considered
- 2008.06.26: "Swingtown:" Has this ever happened to you? You're about to take a shower with three other people and then your uptight friends show up and say, "I don't suppose anyone took the time to wipe down the kitchen?"
- 2008.06.25: Repurposing the heartbreak of the end of a relationship as low-budget entertainment
- 2008.06.25: BREAKING NEWS: History Channel to air groundbreaking documentary about poop!
- 2008.06.25: "Baby Borrowers" - Where's Child Protective Services when you need them?
- 2008.06.25: "Finding Amanda:" Losing Proposition
- 2008.06.24: George Carlin's first "SNL" appearance airing Saturday
- 2008.06.24: Wally (the dog) v. "Wall-E"
- 2008.06.23: "Mad Men" is smokin'
- 2008.06.23: A Tale of Two Struggling Media Industries
- 2008.06.23: George Carlin, 1937-2008
- 2008.06.20: If my place had central air, you'd get more coherent blog entries
- 2008.06.20: Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' Five Stages of Coping with Heat
- 2008.06.19: "Get Smart" shouldn't be allowed to use the word "Smart" in its title
- 2008.06.19: SOAPnet's "MVP" takes you inside the ... sexy? ... world of professional hockey
- 2008.06.19: There are so many ideas for fun and exciting TV shows out there, but here are the ones CBS opted to go with
- 2008.06.18: Inspiring a nation: John McCain's green-screen challenge
- 2008.06.18: Turner Classic Movies remembers Cyd Charisse
- 2008.06.18: Originality is apparently overrated
- 2008.06.18: Looking for the "Fringe" elements
- 2008.06.17: Lara Logan declares jihad on American media
- 2008.06.17: Sci Fi Channel saves the world - by encouraging you to watch TV
- 2008.06.17: Yet more evidence that the broadcast networks are in deep trouble
- 2008.06.17: Katie Couric's home movies
- 2008.06.16: Create your own TV show!
- 2008.06.16: TV tonight: "The Middleman," "Weeds" and "Secret Diary of a Call Girl"
- 2008.06.15: This will haunt your dreams
- 2008.06.13: Dana Carvey and the Fountain of Photoshop Youth
- 2008.06.13: Fine art for your edification
- 2008.06.13: Tim Russert, 1950-2008
- 2008.06.13: Well, this is one way of avoiding the dating scene
- 2008.06.12: Today's - what? - third, fourth sign of the End Times
- 2008.06.12: Hey, ladies - he's available
- 2008.06.12: Will Success Spoil Kathy Griffin?
- 2008.06.12: Turns out things are on TV tonight
- 2008.06.05: Boyoboy, does Jim Gaffigan want me
- 2008.06.04: Hillary Clinton just keeps going, and going, and going -- out of her mind
- 2008.06.03: An award no one may care about, but at least they got the nominees right
- 2008.06.03: Coming soon to websites near you -- new TV networks
- 2008.06.02: "30 Days:" Create your own mix-n-match ideological clashes
- 2008.05.31: Just because you were cool enough to score a ticket to Friday's Flight of the Conchords concert doesn't mean you're not an utter jerk
- 2008.05.30: Roger Ebert addresses today's tough issues
- 2008.05.29: Harvey Korman could always laugh at himself
- 2008.05.29: Rachel Ray and the terrorists amongst us
- 2008.05.29: Further shocking revelations in Scott McClellan's "What Happened"
- 2008.05.29: "Flight of the Conchords:" A viewers guide for people who hate viewers guides
- 2008.05.28: The forgotten war
- 2008.05.28: You can set $7,900 on fire - or you can buy a full-scale Cylon Centurion Robot. Your call.
- 2008.05.28: The networks' sigh of relief
- 2008.05.28: Turner Classic Movies pays homage to Sydney Pollack
- 2008.05.27: Get yourself on TV (or on the Internets, at least) (or somewhere; who knows?)
- 2008.05.27: Phoning it in with The CW's new Sunday night lineup: "Generic Reality Show," "Generic Sitcom," "Generic Romantic Dramedy" and "Generic Drama"
- 2008.05.27: Subject header to another Email I never bothered to open
- 2008.05.27: The New York Times is tired of Oprah, the Weekly Reader becomes a TV Franchise® and other programming notes
- 2008.05.26: Fox News joins Hillary in calling for Obama's head
- 2008.05.26: Reviews: "Recount," "The Andromeda Strain" and some reality junk on E!
- 2008.05.23: Create your favorite supporting TV character's own spin-off show
- 2008.05.22: E!: EEeeeeeeeeee! Denise and Dina's contributions to the Too Much Information culture
- 2008.05.21: Winners (CBS), Losers (NBC), and Some Combination Thereof (people involved in the "Simpsons" duel)
- 2008.05.21: Inanity roundup: Nigel Tufnel, US Magazine, "American Idol"
- 2008.05.20: I don't exist. Bummer.
- 2008.05.20: I take it back, that thing I said in the last entry
- 2008.05.20: Bravo's A-List Idiocy
- 2008.05.19: Current TV's "InfoMania:" A comic deluge of pop culture sludge
- 2008.05.19: WWE's bold new kid-friendly initiative
- 2008.05.19: One last chance to vote for President Bush!
- 2008.05.19: Fall-TV 2008's winners and losers (since subtle shades of grey are so tricky to evince)
- 2008.05.17: "Metalocalypse:" As Tom Waits predicted, Earth died screaming, but also chuckling a little bit, too
- 2008.05.16: Math Whiz Special Edition: Fall 2008 by the Numbers
- 2008.05.16: Subject header to an Email I never bothered to open
- 2008.05.16: Entertainment Weekly polled TV viewers, and the results are shocking
- 2008.05.15: Fox's upfront this afternoon in 651 words or (a lot) more
- 2008.05.15: "Only Fox is putting the audience first."
- 2008.05.15: This headline about Fox's fall schedule isn't very good, either; the next one will be better, promise
- 2008.05.15: We apologize for this headline about Fox's fall schedule
- 2008.05.14: Let us now consider Jerry Bruckheimer
- 2008.05.14: A press release I couldn't finish reading because I was too busy breaking down and weeping for humanity
- 2008.05.14: CBS's upfront presentation from this afternoon in 651 words or more
- 2008.05.14: Where reality shows come from; also, CBS and CW fall schedules
- 2008.05.13: ABC's upfront presentation from this afternoon in 651 words or fewer
- 2008.05.13: ABC announces fall schedule; "According to Jim" still not dead
- 2008.05.12: Whistling past the upfront graveyard
- 2008.05.12: Bill O'Reilly's audition reel
- 2008.05.12: NBC's Jeff Zucker: "It's really not just about the ratings anymore." Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?
- 2008.05.12: Tonight's "House" features sundry disrobed women who are only peripheral to the storyline and yet it's not quite cravenly exploitative - just another reason it's one of the best shows on TV
- 2008.05.11: What are we going to do with these broadcast networks?
- 2008.05.11: An account of Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein's hilariously profane benefit performance that, oddly enough, may include a "24" spoiler for next season
- 2008.05.09: A shameless plug
- 2008.05.09: Ending the week with a bang (so to speak)
- 2008.05.09: Hopefully the only place where you'll see Miley Cyrus, Jimmy Fallon and Mother's Day all mentioned in the same breath
- 2008.05.09: Play with your "Heroes," buy stuff MTV tells you to, and don't be informed. It's the least you could do for your country.
- 2008.05.08: The Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is no less a news show than any other crummy cable-news show out there
- 2008.05.07: Entertainment Weekly breaks bad
- 2008.05.07: Something actually interesting about the Weather Channel, mainly because it involves sex
- 2008.05.07: "30 Rock:" Mr. Donaghy Goes to Washington
- 2008.05.06: Overkill? Bravo!
- 2008.05.05: Seth MacFarlane is now as rich as Oprah - well, almost
- 2008.05.05: TV Guide: 1953-2008?
- 2008.05.02: Wanted: One high-maintenance, high-strung aging diva willing to share her insecurities with a national TV audience
- 2008.05.01: Patrick Dempsey and the casting decision that wasn't
- 2008.05.01: Lowdown on upfronts
- 2008.04.30: "CSI," "2.5 Men:" Bodies Everywhere
- 2008.04.29: They grow up so fast these days
- 2008.04.29: "Reaper:" Well, that happened
- 2008.04.26: The Mayor of Coachella would prefer to have his mind blown than for his brain to explode, but he gets the latter, not the former.
- 2008.04.24: The Mayor of Coachella
- 2008.04.23: Today's discussion points aren't particularly fascinating; sorry
- 2008.04.22: Self-aggrandization and its discontents
- 2008.04.22: How the mighty have fallen
- 2008.04.22: “Ugly Betty: The Book:” Superficial and Proud of It
- 2008.04.22: We could listen to the "Heroes" soundtrack, just for one day
- 2008.04.21: If it's a day of the week, there must be a protest going on somewhere
- 2008.04.21: At least there's no waterboarding
- 2008.04.20: "Law & Order," and Disorder
- 2008.04.20: War is fun, if you’re not cannon fodder
- 2008.04.18: "Terrifying Times;" the best of times
- 2008.04.17: Debatable
- 2008.04.15: Is this thing on?
- 2008.04.14: More random intrigue in Katie Couric's life story
- 2008.04.11: Elmo: An American Hero
- 2008.04.11: Maybe CBS can use the extra $15 million to hire back all the reporters it laid off last week
- 2008.04.10: Who could see this one coming, except for everybody?
- 2008.04.10: Katie, unbar the door
- 2008.04.09: "The Vietnam of Newspapers"
- 2008.04.09: Chris Matthews is the prey in the journalistic equivalent of “The Most Dangerous Game”
- 2008.04.09: TCM parts the waters of its schedule to allow a Charlton Heston marathon through
- 2008.04.08: “If reality TV has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t keep people with no shame down”
- 2008.04.08: All You Need To Know Today
- 2008.04.07: Kathie Lee Gifford slays me. No, literally.
- 2008.04.04: Ben Silverman's protest poetry
- 2008.04.03: NBC 2008-09: Thursday’s pretty much the same; Friday’s a fount of hope and change
- 2008.04.03: NBC, fall 2008 and beyond: Tuesday and Wednesday
- 2008.04.03: NBC’s 2008-09 fall, winter and summer schedules: Sunday and Monday
- 2008.04.02: NBC hits us with more information than we can possibly process in one sitting
- 2008.04.02: And the Peabody Goes To ... "Mad Men," "Colbert Report," "30 Rock" and "Dexter"
- 2008.04.02: “Root of All Evil:” Special “My Name Is Earl” Edition
- 2008.04.01: When Laurie (Anderson) Met Andy (Kaufman)
- 2008.04.01: The CW shovels the fertilizer
- 2008.04.01: No fools at TNT
- 2008.03.31: “The World is Just Awesome”
- 2008.03.31: Technically, ABC won't just be airing a test pattern, but...
- 2008.03.31: "Tune in, and then mentally tune out"
- 2008.03.28: What have we learned this week?
- 2008.03.27: “Prison Break’s” ultimate break with reality
- 2008.03.27: The Bush Administration cribs all of its conspiracy ideas from “The X-Files”
- 2008.03.27: "My Name Is" Jeff, and I'll be recapping your show tonight
- 2008.03.26: Tina Fey blames (and evades) the media
- 2008.03.26: More Logo-rrhea: The Parternship for a Logo-Free America has curiously not yet succeeded in its quest
- 2008.03.25: The Future of Television is Something I’m Already Trying to Erase from My Memory
- 2008.03.25: The Future of Television is Carson Daly
- 2008.03.25: The Future of Television is Reminded that Nifty Technologies are All Well and Good, But…
- 2008.03.25: The Future of Television Induces One to Consider the Big Issues
- 2008.03.24: The Future of Television Apparently Doesn’t Involve Television
- 2008.03.24: The Future (Of Television’s) So Bright, I Don’t Need The Shades So Much
- 2008.03.21: The Partnership for a Logo-Free America elevates its game
- 2008.03.21: It’s the end of the world for “Jericho”
- 2008.03.21: “Everyone out of the universe! Quick!”
- 2008.03.20: Biting the hands of those they feed
- 2008.03.20: Comedy is not pretty, but it is lucrative
- 2008.03.20: The Partnership for a Logo-Free America gathers momentum
- 2008.03.19: Tina Fey disses Jon Stewart: Pot, meet kettle
- 2008.03.19: Problems? What problems? Britney Spears is a comic genius on "How I Met Your Mother"
- 2008.03.19: A "Battlestar" prequel and other stuff the Sci Fi network cooked up
- 2008.03.19: The Partnership for a Logo-Free America
- 2008.03.18: No news is bad news
- 2008.03.18: Obama takes the high road, one too high for TV pundits
- 2008.03.18: The TV equivalent of waterboarding
- 2008.03.18: Jim Cramer's going-out-of-business sale
- 2008.03.18: Not “Miss Guided,” yet not all that clever, either
- 2008.03.17: A “Miss Guided” attempt at TV screening
- 2008.03.17: HBO: Holding (Barely) On?
- 2008.03.17: Letters to the FCC: "The Simpsons"
- 2008.03.17: Bid to win “Riches”
- 2008.03.15: Paris Hilton gives you a bonus reason to hate her (though you certainly don't need it)
- 2008.03.15: Paris Hilton gives you a bonus reason to hate her (though you certainly don’t need it)
- 2008.03.13: A statement from the Mayor of Television on the occasion of his latest sex scandal
- 2008.03.12: Letters to the FCC: "Desperate Housewives"
- 2008.03.12: A sober analysis of today's breaking TV stories
- 2008.03.11: Um, I’ll go with “Isn’t”
- 2008.03.11: First in a series: Letters to the FCC: "Family Guy"
- 2008.03.11: Paul Giamatti on John Adams’ randy side
- 2008.03.10: Spitzer swallows hard
- 2008.03.10: “Canterbury’s Law,” “High School Confidential”
- 2008.03.09: Notebook dump: “The Wire’s” series finale
- 2008.03.06: “Breaking Bad” explains “The Wire” to white people
- 2008.03.06: "Lights" to shine again
- 2008.03.05: Summer programming announcements: What you’ll likely be skipping this summer
- 2008.03.05: FCC'd
- 2008.03.05: Debating Katie Couric
- 2008.03.05: You, too, can be a serial killer
- 2008.03.04: “Supermodels are dead;” so is CW comedy
- 2008.03.04: Terminated.
- 2008.03.03: Cooking the books at the Food Network
- 2008.03.03: NBC, TNT, TBS, CW: Abbreviations R Us©
- 2008.03.02: TV's Seven Deadly Sins
- 2008.03.01: "Bitches get stuff done:" Hillary Clinton appears on "SNL" after Tina Fey's ringing endorsement
- 2008.02.29: Scalpels drawn: The war over “Scrubs”
- 2008.02.29: Stay classy, Jeff Zucker
- 2008.02.29: The end of “quarterlife” as we know it
- 2008.02.28: Your weekend viewing roundup: “Torchwood,” “Dirt,” “Breaking Bad” and “Aliens in America”
- 2008.02.28: Fox's "Unhitched:" Monkey sex and free wieners
- 2008.02.27: Sign of the End Times
- 2008.02.27: In which we ponder Jay Leno's future
- 2008.02.27: Surprise: TV shows about blogging not popular
- 2008.02.26: What happens in "Vegas" gets cancelled
- 2008.02.26: A stirring tribute to “quarterlife” blogging
- 2008.02.25: New Media vs. Old Media: Clash of the Titans
- 2008.02.25: And the Oscar for lowest-rated Oscar ceremony goes to: The 2008 Oscars!
- 2008.02.25: “Apocalypse Now,” starring the New York Times
- 2008.02.25: Déjà vu all over again
- 2008.02.24: No shortage of Oscars for "Old Men"
- 2008.02.24: "Whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town."
- 2008.02.24: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova charm a nation (and Jon Stewart)
- 2008.02.24: Were it not for the montages, this'd be over by now
- 2008.02.24: Just think how bad this would've been without the writers
- 2008.02.24: Coming up next: A montage of Oscar’s greatest montages
- 2008.02.24: A grateful nation dodges a bullet
- 2008.02.24: And Oscar live-blogging begins in earnest
- 2008.02.24: Regis Philbin rescues us from George
- 2008.02.24: George Pennacchio does it again (and again)
- 2008.02.22: Live-blogging the Oscars©: Now, your glamorous evening is complete
- 2008.02.22: Down to “The Wire”
- 2008.02.21: "Apocalypse Now," starring John McCain
- 2008.02.21: Who knew divorce was fun? CBS, that’s who!
- 2008.02.21: From mob wife to midwife
- 2008.02.20: “Jericho’s” audience: Peanuts
- 2008.02.20: Jon Stewart prepares for battle
- 2008.02.19: "Lights" out: NBC's dim bulbs
- 2008.02.19: NBC: Need Begets Change
- 2008.02.19: STARmeter trek
- 2008.02.19: “Dancing With the” – uh, wait; there really are some stars in this list
- 2008.02.18: KITT kills
- 2008.02.18: “America’s Next Top” Squeal-a-thon
- 2008.02.18: Dropping “Baby” on its head
- 2008.02.15: “Breaking Bad” is hard to do
- 2008.02.15: Viewers prefer dogs on USA Network over dogs on CNBC
- 2008.02.15: The CW returns to work
- 2008.02.14: CBS clones its 2008-09 season
- 2008.02.14: NBC commemorates Valentine’s Day by airing a very bad word, indeed
- 2008.02.14: Death of a sitcom
- 2008.02.14: "Dexter:" Sanitized for your protection?
- 2008.02.13: Was it a mistake to air new shows during the strike?
- 2008.02.13: NBC gets busy, too
- 2008.02.13: “Monk” amok
- 2008.02.13: CBS gets busy
- 2008.02.13: Pencils up, scribbling furiously
- 2008.02.12: Hooray! It’s over! Now, the hard part
- 2008.02.12: USA Network treats Westminster Dog Show fans like dogs treat fire hydrants
- 2008.02.12: New “Star Wars” TV series announced; fanboys everywhere find reason to live
- 2008.02.12: Late-night comedy that doesn’t involve chat (or, in some instances, comedy)
- 2008.02.12: Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some show up inexplicably on imdb.com.
- 2008.02.11: Patience is a virtue: What shows will return, and when?
- 2008.02.11: ABC renews the nine
- 2008.02.11: Writers strike good news/bad news
- 2008.02.10: Herbie Hancock's climactically anti-climactic victory
- 2008.02.10: Bulletin: This is taking way too long
- 2008.02.10: Amy Winehouse doesn't pull a Britney
- 2008.02.10: Vince Gill is America's new hero
- 2008.02.10: Are the Grammys tipping some high Amy Winehouse drama?
- 2008.02.10: Amy Winehouse gains momentum
- 2008.02.10: Grammys finally give Beatles some "Love"
- 2008.02.10: Vicariously experience all the glamour of sitting in a cramped pressroom backstage at the Grammys!
- 2008.02.09: Inside the WGA meeting
- 2008.02.09: Prediction: The CW is toast
- 2008.02.09: A pyrrhic victory
- 2008.02.08: Media Matters, more than free speech
- 2008.02.07: TV news got it wrong? Is that possible?
- 2008.02.07: Getting voices for talking cars isn't what it used to be
- 2008.02.06: News graphics of the damned
- 2008.02.06: Ministry of Silly Interviews
- 2008.02.06: Is our children learning?
- 2008.02.05: Megyn Kelly moves it; Mitt Romney moves out
- 2008.02.05: Obama steals the show, but Clinton (and McCain) take California
- 2008.02.05: Wolf Blitzer likes baseless projections; Chris Matthews likes dumb voters
- 2008.02.05: White people talk about race; Romney doesn't (heart) Huckabee
- 2008.02.05: Super Tuesday coverage, "inspired by Ronald Reagan"
- 2008.02.05: Live Team Coverage of Super Tuesday©
- 2008.02.05: TV at a theater near you: The Paley Festival
- 2008.02.05: Stewart v. Colbert v. O'Brien: The battle royale of the century (the century's young)
- 2008.02.04: Strike Update No. 3,287
- 2008.02.04: How your TV shows would be wrapped up, if they ever get wrapped up
- 2008.02.04: Thin Gruel for the "American Idol" Soul
- 2008.02.04: “Prison Break:” They break out of prison
- 2008.02.03: “House’s” Super Bowl episode: Baby, it's cold outside
- 2008.02.03: Super Bowl commercials, not live-blogged
- 2008.02.03: We’ve heard this all before, but this time it might be true
- 2008.02.02: "Development" in development
- 2008.02.01: Stupidly linking "Hannah Montana" with French romanticism
- 2008.02.01: “The Wire:” Hey, have they mentioned yet that we’re all totally doomed?
- 2008.02.01: “Lost” puts “Celebrity Apprentice” in the hatch
- 2008.02.01: Billy Bush takes the moral high ground (for once in his life)
- 2008.01.31: SAG's president better watch his back
- 2008.01.31: Desultory strike update
- 2008.01.31: If everyone on the planet was like a TMZ.com celebrity videographer
- 2008.01.30: Remember back when people watched TV?
- 2008.01.30: Like watching paint dry
- 2008.01.30: HBO wants you "In Treatment"
- 2008.01.30: The Parents Television Council goes on a murderous rampage
- 2008.01.30: Even my own blog hates me
- 2008.01.26: “Our Dumb World” just got a little smarter
- 2008.01.26: "Mad Men" go back to work
- 2008.01.25: Greetings, live from TV Press Tour
- 2008.01.25: "Mad Men" and madmen
- 2008.01.24: E!'s mistimed Schadenfreude
- 2008.01.23: Fun factoids from the SAG Awards
- 2008.01.23: Pencils back up (for a good cause)
- 2008.01.22: Cheer up – someone’s benefiting from the writers strike
- 2008.01.22: Oscar fever: The nominees react
- 2008.01.22: Insert that ominous “Law & Order” “Chung-Chung” tone here
- 2008.01.21: Debunking commercial myths #1
- 2008.01.21: America is safe from terrorists again
- 2008.01.21: Buy something that has been in the general proximity of an NBC star!
- 2008.01.19: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Kevlar-Reinforced Hippo Hide
- 2008.01.18: “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” returns, 40% less terroristy
- 2008.01.17: Honesty: Not always the best policy?
- 2008.01.17: Chris Matthews: “I rely on my heart” to say mean, stupid things
- 2008.01.17: There, now – that wasn’t so hard, was it?
- 2008.01.17: Oscar's Plan B
- 2008.01.16: Mission: "Kim Possible"
- 2008.01.16: It’s hard to write fresh writers-strike-related headlines, let me tell you
- 2008.01.16: Is “American Idol” losing it?
- 2008.01.15: Oprah OWNs Television
- 2008.01.15: Technically, it should be “10 Items or Fewer”
- 2008.01.15: Terminated
- 2008.01.15: Explaining the writers strike to children
- 2008.01.14: The Official Blog of the United States of America ©
- 2008.01.14: An animated suggestion on how to get new episodes of striking scripted shows
- 2008.01.14: CBS unveils new reality shows, as well as its contempt for the human race
- 2008.01.14: You, apparently, can fool between 4.4- and 5.8-million people all of the time.
- 2008.01.12: Bonus outtakes from the "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" story
- 2008.01.11: Avoid This Event 2: The Quickening
- 2008.01.11: Avoid This Event
- 2008.01.11: "Still just a work in progress"
- 2008.01.10: Bible and sword!
- 2008.01.10: This year's Globes: Entertainment or news?
- 2008.01.09: In defense of the late-night scabs
- 2008.01.08: Requiem for strike-related humor
- 2008.01.08: Other trainwrecks Dr. Phil can impose himself upon
- 2008.01.08: Sunday’s Globes: Best Awards Ceremony Ever
- 2008.01.07: Stewart/Colbert return, somewhat defanged
- 2008.01.07: The Original Punny Golden Globe Headline is No Longer Operative
- 2008.01.07: Sundry strike stuff, from "Dexter" to "American Gladiators"
- 2008.01.06: “The Wire:” Best TV Show Ever?
- 2008.01.05: More angry late-night bickering!
- 2008.01.04: Super Gala 1,000th Mayor of Television Entry Spectacular©
- 2008.01.04: “Persepolis”’ Marjane Satrapi on breasts and (George W.) Bush
- 2008.01.03: Late-night returns: Day One aftermath
- 2008.01.03: Late-night returns. We behold it. Now what?
- 2008.01.02: Jon Robin Baitz doesn’t like Hollywood much
- 2008.01.02: At this point, "Law & Order" should've rid New York of all crime
- 2007.12.29: Letterman pants’s the competition
- 2007.12.28: Other things besides the revolution that won't be televised
- 2007.12.28: 2007’s last bird-flip to the human race
- 2007.12.21: A hastily thrown-together, loosely-holiday-themed, final blog entry for 2007
- 2007.12.20: Stewart, Colbert return, without a net
- 2007.12.20: Happy hangover-days from WE tv
- 2007.12.20: Scandal 101
- 2007.12.19: Obligatory strike update
- 2007.12.19: If only strike talks were as fruitful as Jamie Lynn Spears
- 2007.12.19: Anticlimactic News Story of the Day
- 2007.12.19: Get some SAG swag
- 2007.12.19: As the strike world turns ... really ugly
- 2007.12.18: New Yorker: R.I.P., books
- 2007.12.18: Judd Apatow to relive his soul-depleting TV days
- 2007.12.18: Jimmy Kimmel lives again
- 2007.12.18: Are awards ceremonies reality TV?
- 2007.12.17: An interview invitation I’ll regretfully decline
- 2007.12.17: Breaking news: People can be self-absorbed
- 2007.12.17: “There’s such a thin line between clever and stupid”
- 2007.12.17: Force Majeure: The clock is ticking
- 2007.12.17: Shocking holiday-TV revelation
- 2007.12.16: Letterman: Returning, fully loaded?
- 2007.12.15: Ricky Gervais to perform in L.A.
- 2007.12.14: "Somewhere there's a war and sometimes there's art" *
- 2007.12.14: In a TV censor's world, Sin City is just City
- 2007.12.13: American Humiliation
- 2007.12.13: "American Gladiators" unleash hell
- 2007.12.13: Potentially final blog entry ever from The Mayor of Television
- 2007.12.12: Upfronts upended
- 2007.12.12: An unnecessarily thorough deconstruction of “Alvin and the Chipmunks”
- 2007.12.12: This just in: AMPTP still miffed at WGA
- 2007.12.12: Carson Daly can't get a word in edgewise
- 2007.12.11: A holiday wish that's really sincere (really)
- 2007.12.11: You can't handle the truth
- 2007.12.10: The first casualty of war is truth; in the case of the writers strike, it's TV Press Tour
- 2007.12.10: Further proof this writers strike must end soon
- 2007.12.09: "Dexter:" Killing people isn't so much fun, after all
- 2007.11.30: The New Economic Partnership revealed!
- 2007.11.29: Strike update: AMPTP's proposal; talks resume Tuesday
- 2007.11.29: Kathy Griffin doesn't think she'll win another Emmy
- 2007.11.28: “That’s like financial racism”
- 2007.11.28: Who’s the Reaganiest?
- 2007.11.27: I have seen the “Futurama,” and it is buttocks
- 2007.11.27: Hallmark Channel pimps its stars
- 2007.11.27: Love and Downloads: A portrait of an executive/writer marriage
- 2007.11.27: “Law & Order: Very Special Episodes Unit”
- 2007.11.26: Repackaging really old "Tonight Shows"
- 2007.11.26: The Presidential Seal of Quality Television
- 2007.11.26: Striking up a conversation (there are no losers here - oh, wait; yes, there are)
- 2007.11.21: Should we be thankful for the writers strike?
- 2007.11.21: No news is good news for CNN
- 2007.11.21: Thanksgiving Day miracles tragedies
- 2007.11.20: Another fun batch of strike-related minutiae
- 2007.11.20: Impersonating entertainment
- 2007.11.19: "Celebrity Apprentice:" There's no apprentice, either
- 2007.11.19: “Walk Hard:” The Dewey Cox Writers Strike Story
- 2007.11.17: Writers walked the walk, now they'll talk the talk
- 2007.11.17: My evening with Norman Mailer
- 2007.11.16: On strike over strike coverage
- 2007.11.16: Strike Wars: The Producers Strike Back
- 2007.11.16: The upside of ptomaine poisoning
- 2007.11.16: I will fight like hell to hide that I’ve given up:* More on the writers strike
- 2007.11.16: Something I wish I’d written
- 2007.11.15: The biggest disappointment of the TV season
- 2007.11.15: Attention Writers: A Paying Gig (sort of)
- 2007.11.15: The rest of your TV season
- 2007.11.15: Is Jorja Fox pulling a McLean Stevenson?
- 2007.11.14: The Writers Strike’s Late Night Battleground
- 2007.11.14: Writers strike “Damages” us all
- 2007.11.14: Your vote counts
- 2007.11.14: SpongeBob: A colossus astride the networks
- 2007.11.13: Tom Tancredo blows your mind
- 2007.11.13: So much writing about the writers strike
- 2007.11.13: "Money:" More dear than "Life?"
- 2007.11.12: "Weeds" fires up
- 2007.11.12: "Four Months Ago," "Heroes" was really popular
- 2007.11.09: Ben Silverman and NBC's mean initiative
- 2007.11.09: This just in: Strike not yet resolved
- 2007.11.08: "Heroes" graphic novel: Striking while the iron is cold
- 2007.11.08: Showtime’s Big Box of Death
- 2007.11.08: Writers strike as conspiracy thriller?
- 2007.11.08: The strike strikes more (real-life) victims
- 2007.11.07: Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition
- 2007.11.07: Will the strike terminate the TV season?
- 2007.11.07: Striking changes
- 2007.11.07: Gregory House, oracle for lunatics?
- 2007.11.07: Famous in Europe
- 2007.11.07: Playing "House"
- 2007.11.06: An appeal to “Seinfeld” fans far wealthier than I
- 2007.11.06: Strike Updates (Spoiler Alert: It Doesn’t End)
- 2007.11.06: "The Unit's" green initiative: Save energy by having fewer characters
- 2007.11.06: NBC and Tina Fey: Different shades of green
- 2007.11.05: If he can't be President, Stephen Colbert will settle for more of your money
- 2007.11.05: Strike Updates: Day One of the Entertainment-Depriving, Industry-Destroying, Economy-Paralyzing Battle of Civilizations
- 2007.11.04: The writers strike as TV plot point
- 2007.11.02: "Family Guy's" 100th episode is (surprise!) really naughty
- 2007.11.02: A handy guide to surviving the new Nokia Theatre
- 2007.11.02: A modest proposal to save America (or, at least, Hollywood) during the Writers strike
- 2007.11.01: Someone is offended by something on TV (again)
- 2007.11.01: “Amas de Casa Desesperadas”
- 2007.11.01: “Heroes”’ villains: NBC
- 2007.11.01: Colbert campaign, we hardly knew ye
- 2007.11.01: "The Price is Right's" new burning issue: weed
- 2007.10.31: Colbert for President: Politics as Unusual
- 2007.10.31: More pre-strike scaremongering
- 2007.10.31: Which new show had its staff vote repeatedly in an online poll rather than work on the show itself?
- 2007.10.31: Good news for “Samantha,” bad news for the industry
- 2007.10.30: NBC finds a way to ruin “The Office”
- 2007.10.30: Why I shouldn’t venture out around town
- 2007.10.30: Stephen Colbert hates America (so does the media)
- 2007.10.30: People hate me, love Tom Petty
- 2007.10.30: Partying hearty, Quahog-style
- 2007.10.30: Breaking "Bones"
- 2007.10.29: Is waterboarding torture? See for yourself on Current TV
- 2007.10.29: Yet another outlet for Fake News
- 2007.10.29: On Paula Abdul's art career and bottled water for dogs
- 2007.10.29: “nip/tuck” liposucts its cerebral cortex
- 2007.10.26: A poll that may or may not mean something
- 2007.10.26: A public service message from “Battlestar Galactica”
- 2007.10.26: "Dexter:" The upside of addiction
- 2007.10.26: “Meerkat Manor:” “Massacre Manor,” more like
- 2007.10.25: Island of “Lost” souls
- 2007.10.25: The computer/video game you can eat
- 2007.10.25: Stephen Colbert’s Presidential Endorsement
- 2007.10.25: As the Networks Turn
- 2007.10.24: “Unfortunately,” Glenn Beck is still explaining his wildfire comments
- 2007.10.24: Go under the knife
- 2007.10.24: Putting Larry David on the couch
- 2007.10.23: Pushing "Pushing Daisies" on your fall TV scorecard
- 2007.10.23: Colbert in a landslide
- 2007.10.23: Paranormally low ratings for NBC
- 2007.10.23: A hot time in the old state tonight
- 2007.10.23: The Unified Theory of TV Criticism
- 2007.10.22: Well, it’s still Los Angeles, even if it's news
- 2007.10.22: Third cancellation of the season in three… two…
- 2007.10.19: Beating a Dead Horse: "The History of Television"
- 2007.10.19: Muerte Laughlin
- 2007.10.18: "The Daily Show" makes the news, not just reports it
- 2007.10.18: Winners (hint: ABC), Losers (hint: CW)
- 2007.10.18: A documentary about New Hampshire politics that's fun, really
- 2007.10.18: Your final "Mad Men" rave for the year
- 2007.10.17: DogGate Update: Ellen’s Iggy has a new home!
- 2007.10.17: My impersonation of Rank TV
- 2007.10.17: Ellen DeGeneres goes to the dogs
- 2007.10.17: Michael Ian Black: “I Am a Wonderful Man”
- 2007.10.17: Next on “Today:” The Dead Parrot Sketch!
- 2007.10.17: Stephen Colbert steals my shtick
- 2007.10.17: "Gilmore" Grilled
- 2007.10.16: “The Braindead Megaphone:” Punditidiocracy
- 2007.10.16: Stay Current: The death and rebirth of TV
- 2007.10.16: Strike, out
- 2007.10.16: “Samantha Who?” Now you know
- 2007.10.16: Tonight’s “Frontline:” “Cheney’s Law”
- 2007.10.15: The WB + UPN = The CW + book with hyperbolic press release
- 2007.10.15: TV Ratings: The Rise of the Machines
- 2007.10.15: I read "I Am America (And So Can You!)" And so can you!
- 2007.10.15: “Murder Club:” With a title like that, the competition’s got to shrivel
- 2007.10.12: “Arming the human race against the future”
- 2007.10.12: “Friday Night Lights:” It’s about homicide, not football
- 2007.10.11: “From Russia With Hate”
- 2007.10.11: Will your favorite new show survive?
- 2007.10.11: If it's Thursday, it must be time for another "Mad Men" paean
- 2007.10.10: “Cavemen” extinction watch
- 2007.10.10: "Black Watch:" Watch your back
- 2007.10.10: The CW throws in the towel, claims victory
- 2007.10.09: “Prison Break” cuts off its head to spite its ratings
- 2007.10.08: What's (sorta) hot; what's (sorta) not
- 2007.10.05: Losing this award will be torture
- 2007.10.05: People do still watch TV, after all
- 2007.10.05: “Friday Night Lights:” First and 10
- 2007.10.05: Apocalypse Wow: “Doctor Who”
- 2007.10.04: Zucker to NBC affiliates: Drop dead
- 2007.10.04: Comedy Central: All “Daily Show,” all the time?
- 2007.10.04: Living very large: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”
- 2007.10.04: “Pushing Daisies” won’t be anytime soon
- 2007.10.04: Throwing around boxes of kittens
- 2007.10.04: "Mad Men:" Self-gratification and its discontents
- 2007.10.03: Conflagration on the River Styx II
- 2007.10.03: Sarah Silverman’s Black God speaks
- 2007.10.03: “Cavemen:” No. 2 with a bullet (to the skull)
- 2007.10.03: Conflagration on the River Styx
- 2007.10.03: "30 Rock:" "I think I'm a little insulted"
- 2007.10.02: Sarah Silverman’s childhood secrets
- 2007.10.02: OK, so don't watch TV
- 2007.10.02: The Mayor of Television’s gala tribute to “Cavemen”
- 2007.10.02: "Damages:" All things must pass
- 2007.10.02: "Eureka:" Things blow up real good
- 2007.10.01: Your Message Here: $100K for "Cavemen"
- 2007.10.01: Today's "Death of TV" programming note
- 2007.10.01: The CW: “Cable-Worthy”
- 2007.10.01: Fall-TV’s hot new trend: Viewer attrition!
- 2007.10.01: Hazy “Moonlight”
- 2007.09.30: "Housewives," more "Desperate" than ever
- 2007.09.29: A modest proposal: NBC's next hit show
- 2007.09.28: "Dexter," meet Spector
- 2007.09.28: “Big Shots:” Big Bust
- 2007.09.27: A “Cavemen” shocker!
- 2007.09.27: "You smell like dogfight"
- 2007.09.27: Bill O'Reilly and the Restaurant of Doom
- 2007.09.27: Things get "Ugly"
- 2007.09.27: Dirty Sexy Ratings
- 2007.09.27: Get your 'Don't drop the soap' gags here
- 2007.09.27: Altman's "Nashville" ended violently, too
- 2007.09.26: The only fall-TV schedule you need
- 2007.09.26: It's called the "fall season" for a reason
- 2007.09.26: ABC feels your pain (if you’re rich)
- 2007.09.25: Still mad about "Mad Men"
- 2007.09.25: "The War" at home
- 2007.09.25: “The Unit:” Paranoia runs deep
- 2007.09.25: Monday TV: The Results Show
- 2007.09.25: "Bones:" Out of its skull
- 2007.09.24: Couric to Crocker: Random idiocy roundup
- 2007.09.24: Fall-TV Season: The Body Count Begins
- 2007.09.24: "House" Remodeling
- 2007.09.21: When the “Shark” bites
- 2007.09.21: Rather messy
- 2007.09.21: Fox's cartoon funhouse returns
- 2007.09.20: "Kids" and "Girl" underwhelm; the adults are all right
- 2007.09.19: "Kid Nation:" Give that girl a gold star, "Survivor Lite"
- 2007.09.19: Unleash Hell II: Chris Crocker Edition
- 2007.09.19: Take my wife, please! Ba-dum-bump!
- 2007.09.19: PETA: Nudity = Vegetarianism
- 2007.09.19: iRony
- 2007.09.19: Denis Leary's hunk of burning love
- 2007.09.18: For sale: A fixer-upper
- 2007.09.18: Juries (HEART) Celebrities
- 2007.09.18: "Kid Nation" gets a hall pass
- 2007.09.18: "K-Ville" TKO'd
- 2007.09.18: "Damages:" Really, Who's the Bad Guy?
- 2007.09.17: Tying down Holly Hunter
- 2007.09.17: "Prison Break:" "The worst of the worst are there"
- 2007.09.17: The fall TV season is hereby cancelled
- 2007.09.16: Emmys: Ryan Seacrest doesn't screw up! (Well, much)
- 2007.09.16: BBC America’s anti-viewer Intifada
- 2007.09.14: OJ publicizes his book the only way he knows how
- 2007.09.14: A pro previews "Cavemen's" imminent demise
- 2007.09.14: Obligatory Emmy Logorrhea II
- 2007.09.13: LEAVE OUR CELEBRITY PERSONAL ASSISTANTS ALONE!
- 2007.09.13: “Philadelphia:” Freedom to shock
- 2007.09.13: Famous people work for CBS, not just enslaved kids
- 2007.09.13: "Mad Men," it's great, you should watch it, etc., etc.
- 2007.09.13: “It’s Always Sunny” when you’re severely edited
- 2007.09.12: A Tale of Two Newscasters
- 2007.09.12: Presenting Emmy Presenters Presently
- 2007.09.12: The "Tell Me You Love Me" Drinking Game!
- 2007.09.12: Jon Stewart to host Oscarcast 2008
- 2007.09.11: The TV-Screener Industrial Complex
- 2007.09.11: Emmy in a Box
- 2007.09.10: Zachary Levi: Up on "Chuck"
- 2007.09.10: Some things really should just stay in Vegas
- 2007.09.10: Create your own "Kid Nation!"
- 2007.09.07: To Catch a Blogger
- 2007.09.07: In which Fred Thompson meets Tila Tequila
- 2007.09.06: HBO’s emotional whiplash
- 2007.09.05: iWar 2: This time it's personal
- 2007.09.05: TV has been a nasty, bad, naughty boy
- 2007.09.05: Rolling Stone: Lick This
- 2007.09.05: Emmy presenters: An inevitable addition
- 2007.09.04: “Kid Nation,” meet “Baby Borrowers”
- 2007.09.04: Those mean folks on "Damages" are at it again
- 2007.09.04: The most successful newspaper in the world
- 2007.09.03: Correction
- 2007.09.02: Tom Forman’s Labor Day address to “Kid Nation”
- 2007.08.31: Lunacy alert
- 2007.08.31: More gratuitous piling on on "Kid Nation"
- 2007.08.31: iWar
- 2007.08.31: Katie Couric: An expert uses her words
- 2007.08.31: Well, someone’s gotta feed the Beckham tots
- 2007.08.30: "It's Always Sunny" when Danny DeVito is happy
- 2007.08.30: Breaking the cycle of Emmy-Award-presenter abuse
- 2007.08.30: The weekly insistence that you watch "Mad Men"
- 2007.08.30: Larry Craig: The Viral Videos
- 2007.08.29: “Kid Nation” abused adults, too
- 2007.08.29: Larry Craig: Not gay, just discussing policy
- 2007.08.29: Katie Couric goes to war
- 2007.08.29: Amy Sedaris: Crazy, even by "Rescue Me" standards
- 2007.08.28: On airport men's rooms and diapers
- 2007.08.28: Alberto Gonzales, we hardly knew ye (Part 2)
- 2007.08.27: The written word is your enemy
- 2007.08.27: A nation - and Stephen Colbert's wrist - is healed
- 2007.08.27: "Dancing" with some "Stars"
- 2007.08.27: Alberto Gonzales, we hardly knew ye (today on TV)
- 2007.08.25: Shocking "news"
- 2007.08.23: “Kid Nation” will kill your kid, or your mattress is free!®
- 2007.08.23: Food for thoughtlessness
- 2007.08.23: After this, the next debate'll be rock-paper-scissors
- 2007.08.22: "Colbert," "Daily Show:" One night only: All wet
- 2007.08.22: The three stages of death Emmy presenting
- 2007.08.22: Whether any “Nation” so conceived can long endure
- 2007.08.22: Rustlings from the Deadwoodpile
- 2007.08.22: You say you want a revolution
- 2007.08.21: The 21st Century Pop-Culture Phenomenon, continued
- 2007.08.21: "24," deck chairs, the rearranging thereof
- 2007.08.21: Win a gizmo and watch TV forever
- 2007.08.21: "Anchorwoman:" The end of enlightenment
- 2007.08.20: How to save your struggling show
- 2007.08.20: And the Emmy for Worst Hosting Choice goes to...
- 2007.08.20: When bad things happen to bad people
- 2007.08.19: Celebrating 32 days of Exceptional Blogging (and 333 days of mediocrity)
- 2007.08.18: The little "Musical" that could
- 2007.08.17: Zen and the Art of Cyber-World Maintenance
- 2007.08.17: This just in: Merv Griffin was wasn’t was gay
- 2007.08.17: Oprah: Empowering all but her minions
- 2007.08.17: "The Daily Show" goes to war
- 2007.08.17: Bad Publicity "To Die For"
- 2007.08.16: "24:" The clock needs winding Pt. 2
- 2007.08.16: Fox and the News Hounds
- 2007.08.16: A short comedy film online? Are you kidding me?
- 2007.08.16: Watch "Mad Men" and I'll shut up about it already
- 2007.08.15: "Rescue Me:" What a rush to judgment
- 2007.08.15: The “Kid Nation” kids want to run your life
- 2007.08.15: "Cavemen:" The boring op-ed edition
- 2007.08.15: Your Mayor kvetches, then offers tchotchkes
- 2007.08.14: GSN’s Merv-athon
- 2007.08.14: Zombies invade CBS News
- 2007.08.14: More coffins at HBO
- 2007.08.14: Joe Mantegna joins the pervy "Criminal Minds"
- 2007.08.13: Let’s face it, TMZ can be pretty jerky
- 2007.08.13: Fall TV: A view from the experts (and me)
- 2007.08.13: You could look it up
- 2007.08.13: Own a Dead Lady’s Dress – oh, it’s Princess Di’s
- 2007.08.12: Merv Griffin's 30 seconds of immortality
- 2007.08.11: Nut job of the week month
- 2007.08.10: "Show me wit' yo' mouth"
- 2007.08.09: Good news (for cable), bad news (for broadcast)
- 2007.08.08: Be the first on your block to see "Pushing Daisies"
- 2007.08.08: Celebrity BUI: Blogging Under the Influence
- 2007.08.08: NFL: Noxious Fools League
- 2007.08.07: "The History of Television" update
- 2007.08.07: "Damages" damages our nation's future?
- 2007.08.07: A Hal Fishman myth debunked
- 2007.08.07: "The History of Television:" The Lost Chapter
- 2007.08.06: Requiem for "The History of Television"
- 2007.08.06: "The History of Television" has already won a Peabody
- 2007.08.06: "The History of Television" - in the homestretch now
- 2007.08.06: PBS, are you paying attention? More "History of TV"
- 2007.08.06: "The History of Television" continues to continue
- 2007.08.05: Yet more insight into "The History of Television"
- 2007.08.05: Chapter 2: "The History of Television" (It gets better)
- 2007.08.04: "The History of Television," courtesy PBS and Your Mayor
- 2007.08.03: An obsessive investigation into "Star Trek" redshirt deaths
- 2007.08.03: The most complicated online TV game ever
- 2007.08.03: Abdul, Interrupted: The fragging of “Bratz”
- 2007.08.03: Making advertising palatable - is it even possible?
- 2007.08.02: Hey, guys, the "C" is supposed to stand for "Classics"
- 2007.08.02: “TV Disaster or Marketing Genius?”
- 2007.08.01: Best worst idea ever II
- 2007.08.01: As if Katie Couric needs more headaches
- 2007.08.01: Buying an institution: $5 billion. Trashing the owner: Priceless.
- 2007.08.01: Dita Von Teese explains some of it for you
- 2007.07.31: Headline of the Day, perhaps the Month
- 2007.07.31: Become famous, already
- 2007.07.31: More breaking: TV News, apparently, is also fake
- 2007.07.31: Breaking: TV, apparently, is fake
- 2007.07.31: Getting Milched up an orifice
- 2007.07.30: This just in: Nation healed
- 2007.07.30: "Be a Man"
- 2007.07.30: Pirates of the Internets: Curse of the Cavemen
- 2007.07.30: The Late Shift II: Talons out; Fallon in
- 2007.07.30: Good news, even if it's a lie
- 2007.07.27: Ineptitude reaches new heights
- 2007.07.27: How Christopher Titus rescued "Big Shots"
- 2007.07.26: Lindsay Lohan's next defense strategy?
- 2007.07.25: McPherson v. Silverman: It's on
- 2007.07.25: "Cavemen:" The Evisceration
- 2007.07.25: Advance warning: Live-blogging “Cavemen’s” TCA session
- 2007.07.24: And worth every penny
- 2007.07.24: Oops
- 2007.07.24: Rather further stirs the pot
- 2007.07.24: Urinals in legal narratives: A contextual overview
- 2007.07.23: “I just got very drunk that night and sat in a corner.”
- 2007.07.23: Smell like a cartoon astronaut or gnarly pirate!
- 2007.07.22: Press Tour Slash Fiction
- 2007.07.22: Divining Fall TV’s Cyber-Trends
- 2007.07.20: Nice work if you can get it Pt. 2
- 2007.07.20: Explicating the Emmys, sort of
- 2007.07.20: “Viva Laughlin?” Nah – Viva la muerte
- 2007.07.19: Obligatory Emmy Logorrhea
- 2007.07.19: “Kid Nation:” “Something dark … fumbling along”
- 2007.07.19: "Mad Men:" What is past is prologue
- 2007.07.18: We’re fighting them in Beverly Hills…
- 2007.07.18: Hey, fanboys! Read this "Heroes" post, already.
- 2007.07.18: Gary Dourdan on the other side of the law
- 2007.07.18: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on NBC's press party
- 2007.07.17: In Defense of Ben Silverman
- 2007.07.17: Hollywood is full of pigs (Bulgaria, too)
- 2007.07.16: NBC: Quality Honesty with Noise
- 2007.07.16: The pain is calling, oh Mandy
- 2007.07.16: Isaiah Washington gainfully re-employed
- 2007.07.16: "Mad Men:" The post-"Sopranos" Zeitgeist show?
- 2007.07.16: Navel-gazing elevated to an art form
- 2007.07.15: “High School Musical’s” new mathlete
- 2007.07.15: The TV-Movie Industrial Complex
- 2007.07.14: Mary-Louise Parker’s loutish co-stars
- 2007.07.14: Enough with the sex talk, already
- 2007.07.13: Katie Couric: The Blowback Continues
- 2007.07.13: Steamrollered by the Beckham hype machine
- 2007.07.13: THIS "JUST IN:" Beavis and Butt-head attend HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me" TCA Press Conference
- 2007.07.12: “Deadwood” in Limbo
- 2007.07.12: HBO’s next sex scandal
- 2007.07.11: Obligatory TV Press Tour Item
- 2007.07.11: Warning: Corporatese Psychobabble Ahead
- 2007.07.10: Victoria Beckham’s Mensa application
- 2007.07.10: Paula Abdul, Churchill and Gandhi: Common ground
- 2007.07.09: A Reilly big show
- 2007.07.09: "24:" The clock needs winding
- 2007.07.09: "Cavemen" facing extinction?
- 2007.07.09: Katie Couric blames the media
- 2007.07.09: Wavering on waivers
- 2007.07.08: Alix Lambert's life: Imitating (and surpassing) art
- 2007.07.07: ABC clarifies its stance on "According to Jim"
- 2007.07.07: Shocker: "Simpsons" movie to be irreverent
- 2007.07.06: Nice work if you can get it
- 2007.07.06: Paula Abdul: A woman of the little people
- 2007.07.01: Warning: This blog is rated NC-17…
- 2007.06.29: Joel Siegel's new balcony seat
- 2007.06.29: Bile-spewing kids' show rat beaten to death
- 2007.06.29: WWE steps into the Twilight Zone
- 2007.06.29: If "According to Jim's" renewed, the terrorists win
- 2007.06.29: TV's hottest new trophy: Emmy or iPhone?
- 2007.06.28: By contrast: An actor who doesn't mind dying for his art
- 2007.06.28: “Rescue Me's” tough guys mix it up
- 2007.06.28: "Reno 911!" stars get political; stay goofy
- 2007.06.28: What Larry King didn’t ask
- 2007.06.27: Storm in a teapot
- 2007.06.27: A news anchor's Paris-related meltdown
- 2007.06.27: Shaq throws up a brick
- 2007.06.26: Warning: TV on life-support (again)
- 2007.06.26: Satan's spawns are earthbound
- 2007.06.26: TV Fall Season Trend No. 2: Trannie Hookers
- 2007.06.26: Free Paul McCartney concert Wednesday
- 2007.06.25: Questions like this & your speech’d slur, too
- 2007.06.25: Bulletin: Good Fall Television
- 2007.06.25: Dog days, indeed
- 2007.06.25: Help me out here, people: An HBO questionnaire
- 2007.06.22: This just in: “Grey’s Anatomy” set just like high school
- 2007.06.22: She’s onto us.
- 2007.06.22: $1 million for Paris – and all she does is talk?
- 2007.06.21: Virtual Tedium: "Office" computer games
- 2007.06.21: Lies, Damned Lies, and Celeb-reality TV
- 2007.06.21: Who needs enemies?
- 2007.06.21: Lies, Damned Lies, and Celebrity Websites
- 2007.06.20: A rare moment of clarity amidst the drivel
- 2007.06.20: Reality TV: On Being (Low-Rated) and Nothingness
- 2007.06.19: John Travolta Shocker!
- 2007.06.19: TMZ unveils O.J.'s snuff literature
- 2007.06.18: Musings of an Old Grey Lady
- 2007.06.18: Revving up: Late-night Wars II
- 2007.06.18: Unprotected thinking
- 2007.06.15: Do-it-yourself democracy
- 2007.06.15: Help Craig Ferguson stick it to The Man
- 2007.06.14: Bob Barker: Clumsy contestants, mad models
- 2007.06.14: Ending it with "The Starter Wife"
- 2007.06.14: The art of ineptitude
- 2007.06.13: How's this for closure?
- 2007.06.13: “Heroes” or whores?
- 2007.06.13: Denis Leary on "American Idol;" Peter Tolan on NBC
- 2007.06.12: Dan Rather and O.J. Simpson: Media pundits
- 2007.06.12: David Chase speaks ill of the dead
- 2007.06.11: The "Sopranos" debate rages
- 2007.06.11: CBS goes softcore
- 2007.06.11: Paris finds God; God tries to lose her again
- 2007.06.10: Laying Tony Soprano to rest
- 2007.06.10: "Sopranos" Spoiler 4: And so it ends.
- 2007.06.10: "Sopranos" Spoiler 3: We have a whacking
- 2007.06.10: “Sopranos” Spoiler 2
- 2007.06.10: “Sopranos” Spoiler 1
- 2007.06.10: The end of reason: "John from Cincinnati"
- 2007.06.09: Spoiler: Spoilers ahead
- 2007.06.08: It's not right! Mom!
- 2007.06.08: Evergreens: Rosie, Katie, Bingo
- 2007.06.07: HBO: "The end is near"?
- 2007.06.07: Paris' Bob Barker's contribution to society
- 2007.06.06: Dina Lohan: Mommy Dearest
- 2007.06.06: Yet another Award you don’t care about
- 2007.06.06: More Assassinations, More Conspiracies
- 2007.06.05: The End of the World Rises from the Dead
- 2007.06.05: "Black Donnellys" and enthusiasm in the same story
- 2007.06.05: "Battlestar" requests the pleasure of your presence
- 2007.06.05: Speak no evil - well, not a lot of evil
- 2007.06.05: Help Paris do her time
- 2007.06.05: NBC: The product-placement network?
- 2007.06.04: Costly Katie Couric
- 2007.06.04: Own a piece of Borat (art)
- 2007.06.03: MTV Movie Awards, bringing new meaning to "Best"
- 2007.06.03: It's almost over: MTV Movie Awards
- 2007.06.03: Cohen/Ferrell go where Silverman/Biel didn’t
- 2007.06.03: Because you care: More MTV Movie Awards drivel
- 2007.06.03: Silverman slags Paris
- 2007.06.03: Paris Hilton bares her soul (assuming she has one)
- 2007.06.03: Transforming the MTV Movie Awards into a plugfest
- 2007.06.03: Sarah Silverman fun facts
- 2007.06.01: "Knocked Up:" A crowning achievement
- 2007.05.31: A reprieve from the governor for Trump?
- 2007.05.31: The Chuck E. Cheese of hotels (a pint-sized "No Exit")
- 2007.05.30: Fox's next reality show: Celebrity Organ Donors?
- 2007.05.30: "NCIS" whips the cool shows
- 2007.05.30: MyNetwork TV: MyNap
- 2007.05.30: It's official: USA's obsessed with subliminal sex
- 2007.05.29: NBC's Reilly out; "Quality with Noise" in
- 2007.05.29: The Assault on Reason, Indeed
- 2007.05.28: Don't say we didn't try to tell you
- 2007.05.25: "National Bingo Night" not cancelled yet
- 2007.05.25: Rosie O'Done
- 2007.05.24: Colbert v. Wikipedia: Part 3 or 4, I lose count
- 2007.05.24: O, Winged al-Qaeda Operative
- 2007.05.24: Intelligence, dumbed-down
- 2007.05.24: “The View” from here isn’t pretty
- 2007.05.23: McDreamy, McSteamy and McUnemployed
- 2007.05.22: Dismiss the new fall lineup today!
- 2007.05.22: "On the Lot" of reality-show cliches
- 2007.05.22: “Heroes:” “How to Stop an Exploding Man”
- 2007.05.21: “Gossip Girl” slaps down “Bionic Woman”
- 2007.05.21: The latest "Desperate Housewives" noose
- 2007.05.21: Get yourself a "Billion-Dollar Kiss"
- 2007.05.20: F- Ailure? Bingo!
- 2007.05.18: Spoiler alert: No Spoilers (yet)
- 2007.05.18: "Law & Order:" The family that kills together...
- 2007.05.18: Unleash hell
- 2007.05.18: "The Simpsons:" If They Did It (400 times)
- 2007.05.17: Fox: Now, that's how you do an upfront
- 2007.05.17: The CW eats its young
- 2007.05.17: When William Shatner collapses, David Caruso’ll do
- 2007.05.16: Oh, the injustice
- 2007.05.16: CBS: Walk on the wild side
- 2007.05.15: ABC seeks the X chromosomes
- 2007.05.15: NBC: Can they rebuild it ... better than before ... ?
- 2007.05.14: “You Don’t Love Me Yet”
- 2007.05.09: The Long Goodbye - or no goodbyes?
- 2007.05.08: Sizemore matters
- 2007.05.08: There was a network had a dog & Bingo was its name-o
- 2007.05.08: Heh-heh, you said "Unit" (twice)
- 2007.05.08: TV scheduling strategies made drearier than necessary
- 2007.05.07: Indoctrinating Li'l Terrorists
- 2007.05.05: Exclusive! Karl Rove's lost Emails!
- 2007.05.04: Ain't love grand?
- 2007.05.04: America turns against Katie Couric
- 2007.05.04: The fate of the nation rests upon my jokey thoughts about the Republican Presidential candidates' debate
- 2007.05.03: Relaxing with Republicans
- 2007.05.03: "Gilmore:" Goodbye
- 2007.05.03: "Shark" baits everyone
- 2007.05.03: “A derogatory name … every 6.8 seconds”
- 2007.05.02: Godot, minus that pesky nihilism
- 2007.05.02: “Not overthinking the process” or not thinking at all?
- 2007.05.01: A little reality can really ruin your day
- 2007.05.01: Fans are from "Mars;" network executives are from ...
- 2007.04.30: Ella's Electric Evening
- 2007.04.29: O'Reilly v. O'Donnell: O'Mercy
- 2007.04.29: A little book-learnin' can be a dangerous thing
- 2007.04.27: Coming soon to a Sci Fi Channel near you
- 2007.04.27: TV Guide.com's Career-Builder service for Celebrities
- 2007.04.27: Ham-fisted journalism
- 2007.04.27: No Life to Lose
- 2007.04.26: The Democrats play nice. Mostly.
- 2007.04.26: Coming soon to a Cartoon Network near you
- 2007.04.26: It's Certainly Not MyNetwork
- 2007.04.26: Rosie v. “The View:” The Unexpurgated Version
- 2007.04.25: You go to war with the President you have
- 2007.04.25: A Steaming Pile of Information
- 2007.04.25: “Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predicament”
- 2007.04.25: What Stephen Colbert tastes like
- 2007.04.25: TCA Awards: Your vote almost counts
- 2007.04.24: Rosie O'Cancelled?
- 2007.04.24: Sex, violence and organ transplants
- 2007.04.24: “Heroes”’ “Daddy Dearest” syndrome
- 2007.04.23: Those crusading bullies Laurie David and Sheryl Crow
- 2007.04.23: Stephen Colbert conquers the Internets (again)
- 2007.04.22: Garry Shandling channels Pagliaccio
- 2007.04.20: The Multi-Media Manifesto Debate
- 2007.04.20: “Children of Sanjaya”
- 2007.04.19: Winning "Ugly"
- 2007.04.19: Explicating insanity, one soundbite at a time
- 2007.04.18: On *'s, smart people and everything in between
- 2007.04.17: Chappelle’s (Six-Hour) Show
- 2007.04.17: TV Turnoff Week: Can we get a pass for "Heroes?"
- 2007.04.17: “Drive” crashes, burns, as does reality itself
- 2007.04.17: "Brothers & Sisters" & Governators
- 2007.04.16: "The least interesting aspect of the show"
- 2007.04.16: Must-Flee TV, T’s and Teases
- 2007.04.16: Maybe Jon Stewart should replace Katie Couric
- 2007.04.16: Imus Mess Amiss: An Update
- 2007.04.15: Real Reality TV with Don Imus?
- 2007.04.15: TV Land Awards: I'm not a former child star, damn you
- 2007.04.13: The Five Stages of Coping with Power Outages
- 2007.04.13: Why does Time Warner Hate America? Part Deux
- 2007.04.12: Timequake: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
- 2007.04.11: I have no mouth (or TV gig) and Imus scream
- 2007.04.11: Fourth and long for “Friday Night Lights”
- 2007.04.09: Colbert and Katrina von Heuvel: Get a room
- 2007.04.09: Information to enrich your day
- 2007.04.04: Off to a bunker at an undisclosed location
- 2007.04.03: “America, which I invented…”
- 2007.04.03: Yet more Cancellation Playhouse
- 2007.04.03: Anna Nicole Smith's legacy sullied a little more
- 2007.04.03: Thrilling “Gilmore Girls” contest results!
- 2007.04.02: The TV Show that Gives You Gas
- 2007.04.01: What happens in Reno turns up on Comedy Central
- 2007.03.31: “Jerry Seinfeld: The Comedian Award”
- 2007.03.29: Miss America gets jilted
- 2007.03.29: "The Tudors" works it
- 2007.03.28: Oprah champions post-apocalyptic cannibalism!
- 2007.03.28: “Idol” Chatter: The (Somewhat) Unexpurgated Version
- 2007.03.27: No "Idols" before me
- 2007.03.27: On that Courteney Cox-Jennifer Aniston smooch
- 2007.03.26: Double down on Tony Soprano
- 2007.03.26: Al Gore: Entertainment Industry Awards Vacuum
- 2007.03.25: Britney speaks! And speaks! And speaks!
- 2007.03.23: Charlie Sheen Explains it All for You
- 2007.03.23: A Dark Knight, Indeed
- 2007.03.23: Rainn Wilson: Becoming Dwight Schrute
- 2007.03.23: "Cagney & Lacey:" Guns drawn
- 2007.03.22: "Ugly Betty:" Beard with braces
- 2007.03.21: R.I.P., Larry “Bud” Melman
- 2007.03.21: Do not go gentle into that good "Night"
- 2007.03.21: ABC plays it safe
- 2007.03.20: Scam of the Century?
- 2007.03.20: "Whitest Kids" blow a Fuse
- 2007.03.20: Assorted inanity
- 2007.03.19: “Sopranos:” The Sitcom
- 2007.03.19: Spousal murder for fun and profit!
- 2007.03.17: The scourge of reasoned criticism
- 2007.03.16: Hockey banned ties; on "Jeopardy!", however...
- 2007.03.16: ABC: Always Be Cankerous
- 2007.03.16: Great8Mandate 2: Can “Gilmore Girls” be saved?
- 2007.03.16: No “Idols” before me
- 2007.03.15: Democrats' "Colbert" Retort
- 2007.03.15: “Knocked Up’s” knockout mastermind
- 2007.03.15: "The Sopranos" sing, a little
- 2007.03.15: Asleep on the job
- 2007.03.14: Jack Black aims for "Acceptable"
- 2007.03.14: Answer in the form of a question
- 2007.03.14: No "Bones" about it
- 2007.03.13: Purgatory with Kelly Ripa!
- 2007.03.13: Down the YouTubes
- 2007.03.12: Impious Thoughts with Eddie Izzard
- 2007.03.12: "Old Christine" gets older
- 2007.03.11: Fox News Comedy Channel's imperative
- 2007.03.10: Fox Noise Kerfuffle: The Sequel
- 2007.03.09: It'll take more than a "Fifth Grader" to solve this
- 2007.03.08: The Fox Noise Kerfuffle
- 2007.03.07: Cap,’ We Hardly Knew Ye
- 2007.03.07: “Heroes” battles epilepsy
- 2007.03.07: The Great (if Inadvertent) “Cavemen” Hoax!
- 2007.03.07: La "Bell" Epoque
- 2007.03.06: Sick in the brain
- 2007.03.06: Exclusive! “Cavemen’s” powerful drama
- 2007.03.05: With "Heroes" like these, who needs villains?
- 2007.03.04: Tori Spelling, Kato Kaelin, drag queens, lollipops
- 2007.03.03: “Wire” wired
- 2007.03.02: A "View" to a Kill
- 2007.03.02: The Bahamian Ministry of Culture Strikes Back
- 2007.03.01: “The Goodies” vs. “Python:” Are you kidding?
- 2007.03.01: A nice guy? Say it ain't so
- 2007.02.28: John McCain announces his candidacy on Letterman
- 2007.02.28: Paris is burning
- 2007.02.28: Scalpels out at "Grey's Anatomy"
- 2007.02.28: Discovery Channel’s new publicists: Opus Dei?
- 2007.02.27: "The Daily Show's" intellectual fuddie-duddies
- 2007.02.27: Coming soon: “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip!”
- 2007.02.27: "To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports"
- 2007.02.26: "Heroes" blows up
- 2007.02.26: Down a lonely "Road"
- 2007.02.25: Did you notice this Oscar moment?
- 2007.02.24: "Family Guy" crashes the Oscars
- 2007.02.23: More panel discussions for you to sit through!
- 2007.02.23: Olbermann on Judge Larry
- 2007.02.22: Four more years! Well, at least one...
- 2007.02.21: Your 24-Hour SpearsWatch®
- 2007.02.20: Win the heart of your favorite astronaut!
- 2007.02.20: Love is a battlefield
- 2007.02.20: Apparently, honestly is no longer the best policy
- 2007.02.20: Atypical Black History Month fare
- 2007.02.19: Tom Arnold is Ted Haggard!
- 2007.02.18: No Dice
- 2007.02.17: Bald Britney: These things write themselves
- 2007.02.17: "Cold Case" ices Dylan: How does it feel?
- 2007.02.15: “Longford:” The Notebook Dump
- 2007.02.15: Olbermann re-ups
- 2007.02.14: Winning hearts and mindlessness
- 2007.02.14: Anna Nicole Smith bombshell!
- 2007.02.14: "Studio 60" shuttered?
- 2007.02.13: Don't worry; it's not supposed to make sense
- 2007.02.12: Requiem for an Unemployed Robot
- 2007.02.10: God's Angel of Death
- 2007.02.10: Cartoon Network, without cartoons – or, even, jokes
- 2007.02.09: Life Zucks
- 2007.02.08: Anna Nicole Smith in 2002
- 2007.02.08: 'Lost' only sorta won
- 2007.02.07: Apparently, some souls have escaped from Hell
- 2007.02.06: "Astronaut Love Triangle:" The cheesy TV ripoff
- 2007.02.06: Is all hope "Lost?"
- 2007.02.05: "Criminal" numbers
- 2007.02.04: “Are you having a laugh??
- 2007.02.02: If it feels good, don't air it
- 2007.02.02: Grab your wildly valuable commemorative gewgaws!
- 2007.02.01: Why does Time Warner hate America?
- 2007.02.01: Sarah Silverman on the couch
- 2007.01.31: Biden time until the next gaffe
- 2007.01.31: If we can't viral-market cartoons, the terrorists win
- 2007.01.31: Lost Love
- 2007.01.30: Ye Olde Itemme Round-Uppe
- 2007.01.29: Colbert does it again
- 2007.01.29: What took them so long?
- 2007.01.28: Murphy snaps the "SNL" curse?
- 2007.01.28: SAGs: Well, that was redundant
- 2007.01.28: Proof of awards shows' certitude
- 2007.01.28: "King of the Hill" plays dress-up
- 2007.01.27: Mexican cinema and the paradox of childbirth
- 2007.01.26: Will “Anatomy? sag at the SAGs?
- 2007.01.26: All Politics is Lo-Brow
- 2007.01.25: The Paley TV Festival Strikes Back
- 2007.01.25: Cancellation Playhouse: Sneak Preview
- 2007.01.25: The Art of Selling the Artless
- 2007.01.24: The Official Autopsy® of the SOTU address
- 2007.01.24: "Idol's" Special episode
- 2007.01.23: Fun with the State of the Union address
- 2007.01.23: Forget “Dreamgirls:? “Children of Men? was robbed!
- 2007.01.22: "24:" Fewer dead than usual
- 2007.01.22: "Heroes"' Man with a (Sinister) Plan
- 2007.01.22: “Prison Break? learns it needs to kill even more
- 2007.01.20: "Idol" idling
- 2007.01.20: Chris Rock stones Michael Richards
- 2007.01.20: Taking down Faye Dunaway
- 2007.01.20: Service with a Shrug
- 2007.01.19: The Mean Season
- 2007.01.18: "American Idol:" Who's exploiting who (or is it whom)?
- 2007.01.18: ABC smacks down Isaiah Washington
- 2007.01.18: "Heroes" on life and death
- 2007.01.18: "Scrubs:" The Musical
- 2007.01.17: Trump: Rosie still "disgusting," "not very smart"
- 2007.01.17: Trump: The Art of the Feud
- 2007.01.17: Peter Morgan: Awards Machine
- 2007.01.16: Bombs, nuclear and verbal
- 2007.01.16: The Official Autopsy® of the Golden Globes
- 2007.01.15: Peter Morgan's Kill Switch
- 2007.01.15: Expletive-laden Golden Globes screed
- 2007.01.15: And the award for Outstanding Blog Entry goes to…
- 2007.01.14: Creating "Heroes"
- 2007.01.14: "24" viewing aids
- 2007.01.14: Catfight! With "Rome's" Lindsay Duncan
- 2007.01.13: Got Milch? 2: The Quickening
- 2007.01.12: Self-righteous indignation for your amusement
- 2007.01.11: TV Press Tour, minus the news
- 2007.01.11: "High School Musical:" You be the screenwriter
- 2007.01.10: Puppet regime change
- 2007.01.10: Heart-stopping, Gasp-a-second Thrill-rides R Us
- 2007.01.10: The "shot" heard 'round the world
- 2007.01.09: Is Danny DeVito drunk right now? "Absolutely."
- 2007.01.09: "The Class" takes action
- 2007.01.09: Unleash Hell
- 2007.01.09: Jack Bauer knows where you live
- 2007.01.08: Semiannual TV Press Tour Screed
- 2007.01.06: “Grease: You’re the One that I Want?
- 2007.01.05: The silver lining in broadband's dark cloud
- 2007.01.05: You can get anything on the Internets
- 2007.01.05: Rosie v. Trump: The Game
- 2007.01.05: Knee socks and sawed-off shotguns
- 2007.01.04: News you already knew
- 2007.01.04: A “Bridge? Too Far Out
- 2007.01.03: Help us save Katie Couric. Give now.
- 2007.01.03: Pat Robertson meets Criswell
- 2007.01.03: The Tenured Professors of Television
- 2007.01.02: TV's Future: Not so much on TV, still humiliating
- 2007.01.02: Dirty "Dirt"
- 2007.01.01: 2007's First Top-10 List
- 2006.12.31: 2006: The Unexpurgated Version
- 2006.12.26: Your Mayor v. Michael Crichton
- 2006.12.25: Your gift from The Mayor
- 2006.12.22: Donald Trump and the Deathly Hallows
- 2006.12.22: Trump/O'Donnell: It's War
- 2006.12.22: "Mr. Monk and the Leper"
- 2006.12.22: The war on abstinence
- 2006.12.21: Rosie rankles; Trump tramples: We all win
- 2006.12.20: Show Me the Door
- 2006.12.19: If You Did It: The Judith Regan Novel Contest!
- 2006.12.18: Time's Person of the Year Acceptance Speech
- 2006.12.18: Toothless comedy: Gumming on gruel
- 2006.12.18: Mistaken “Identity?
- 2006.12.17: Tonight's Showtime Showdowns
- 2006.12.15: “Heroes:? On saving the cheerleader
- 2006.12.15: “Slava’s Snowshow? v. Dodger Stadium
- 2006.12.15: For that special geek in your life
- 2006.12.14: WGA: In the shadow of the Globes
- 2006.12.14: Globes: Gamblers Anonymous
- 2006.12.14: Golden Globes: Doubling Down
- 2006.12.14: Globes: Watch it. And watch that. And that, too.
- 2006.12.14: Golden Globes: Reversal of Fortune
- 2006.12.13: Toyland: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- 2006.12.13: "Biography Remembers: Peter Boyle"
- 2006.12.13: UCLA Live: Tony Snow vs. David Gregory?
- 2006.12.13: Elvis, O.J. and an impending Cylon invasion
- 2006.12.13: 'Tis the season for watching "The Office"
- 2006.12.12: Donald Trump crusades against bad breath
- 2006.12.12: Fixing CBS News
- 2006.12.11: KILLER CYBORGS ATTACK DONALD TRUMP!
- 2006.12.11: A visit to the "Heroes" set
- 2006.12.10: AFI's Top 10 ... TV shows
- 2006.12.07: Catchphrase update
- 2006.12.07: Warning: Academic study/market research stuff ahead
- 2006.12.07: Family-friendly porn
- 2006.12.06: Blasphemy comes in many forms
- 2006.12.05: "Lost" finds a new timeslot
- 2006.12.05: Buzz Aldrin in a role that may shock you
- 2006.12.05: Comedy Central votes for "Lil' Bush"
- 2006.12.04: "Studio 60's" unquestioned answers
- 2006.12.04: "Heroes"' amazing juggling act
- 2006.12.04: Lewis Black hates living - in 2006, at least
- 2006.12.02: A leaked memo bombshell
- 2006.12.01: Seinfeld: The Lost Episode
- 2006.12.01: CBS's brain surgery
- 2006.11.30: NBC rearranges the deck chairs (again)
- 2006.11.30: How the sitcom slit its own throat
- 2006.11.29: Family-friendly mayhem
- 2006.11.29: Grace, under more fire
- 2006.11.29: "Big Day," little numbers
- 2006.11.28: Borat the home-wrecker
- 2006.11.28: Fantasy League Law & Order
- 2006.11.25: "The Nine" 86'd
- 2006.11.24: Escape from Bondage
- 2006.11.23: A Ricky Gervais Thanksgiving
- 2006.11.22: Was someone jerky to you? Sue 'em!
- 2006.11.22: Catchphrases of the Damned
- 2006.11.21: The Late, Great Robert Altman
- 2006.11.21: Michael Richards twitches, apologizes, twitches more
- 2006.11.20: If Fox Didn't Do It
- 2006.11.20: Michael Richards yuks it up and other atrocities
- 2006.11.20: Save the Cheerleader; Save NBC
- 2006.11.17: Subtlety is not Victoria's Secret
- 2006.11.16: From O.J. to O'Reilly's Opera
- 2006.11.16: "The Echo Maker"
- 2006.11.16: Must-see - or, You-could-do-worse - TV
- 2006.11.15: Killer Synergy
- 2006.11.15: Show Me the Ratings
- 2006.11.14: "Dan Rather Reports" debuts on HDNet
- 2006.11.14: "Heroes" saves the day
- 2006.11.14: "Show Me" ... almost anything else
- 2006.11.14: Save the Cheerleader; Save "Studio 60"
- 2006.11.13: Online TV: Short-Attention-Span Theater
- 2006.11.13: The Thin Blue Line: Mailroom employees
- 2006.11.13: "Friday Night Lights:" Dim, yet still shining
- 2006.11.12: "Family Guy:" Making Idiots, everywhere, proud
- 2006.11.11: For Your Inconsiderate Consideration
- 2006.11.11: TV Haikus II: The Quickening
- 2006.11.10: Comedy Central saves America
- 2006.11.10: As NBC giveth, Fox taketh away
- 2006.11.09: At work and play
- 2006.11.08: "Trees" climbing
- 2006.11.08: The end of "Jericho" as we know it. Briefly.
- 2006.11.08: Election night ratings
- 2006.11.07: "A repudiation of the status quo:" Some CNN guy
- 2006.11.07: "Daily Show" gets serious, or, at least, less funny
- 2006.11.07: Election night follies
- 2006.11.07: CNN: Stop the presses!
- 2006.11.07: ABC expands its election coverage
- 2006.11.07: Democracy Update: Mayhem as usual
- 2006.11.07: Political attack ads
- 2006.11.06: "Prison" Breakdown
- 2006.11.06: CBS gets in the "Borat" business
- 2006.11.04: "Borat:" Glorious Cultural Learnings Explicated
- 2006.11.03: A joke's not a joke if someone gets hurt
- 2006.11.02: It's Karl Pilkington's world...
- 2006.11.02: "Lost" lost
- 2006.11.02: "Kidnapped" (insert grim pun here)
- 2006.11.02: "Ugly Betty:" Pretty funny
- 2006.11.01: An explosive day with Bob Barker
- 2006.11.01: "Law & Order" plays Mel Gibson's race card
- 2006.10.31: The only TV grid you'll ever need
- 2006.10.31: Rainy days and Monday dramas set on Friday nights
- 2006.10.30: Honoring those who honor the dishonorable
- 2006.10.30: ABC News brings you the world (of terrorism)
- 2006.10.30: "Studio 60" sketch idea: a show nearing cancellation
- 2006.10.29: To be discontinued...
- 2006.10.29: Chix flix nixed
- 2006.10.28: Letterman v. O'Reilly: Round Two
- 2006.10.27: Bud Lite
- 2006.10.27: "Rethink the concept of entertainment"
- 2006.10.26: NBC reshuffles the deck, again
- 2006.10.26: Graphic telenovela
- 2006.10.26: It's Garry Trudeau's Show
- 2006.10.25: An Item About Dane Cook *
- 2006.10.25: The future of television, now
- 2006.10.25: At least we kick Uzbekistan's butt
- 2006.10.25: Pardon the interruption
- 2006.10.24: Put your TV-watching skills to use for America!
- 2006.10.24: "Save the Cheerleader; Save the World"
- 2006.10.23: "A big clump of dirt"
- 2006.10.23: In Which NBC is Rescued from Ignominy
- 2006.10.23: Life During Wartime
- 2006.10.22: The Heart, well, It's a Lonely Hunter
- 2006.10.21: Own a nominal piece of television history!
- 2006.10.21: Question your Mayor
- 2006.10.21: Jeff Zucker answers his critics...
- 2006.10.20: "Shark," and chum
- 2006.10.20: A Tale of Two Failures
- 2006.10.19: NBC cuts and runs
- 2006.10.18: Dim the "Lights;" "Help" needs some
- 2006.10.18: They're handing out awards
- 2006.10.18: James Woods interview: The DVD outtakes
- 2006.10.17: Stranger than Fiction
- 2006.10.17: The CW: Can't Win
- 2006.10.16: Oh, 'Brothers'
- 2006.10.16: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
- 2006.10.14: The CEO Superhero
- 2006.10.13: Thursday night smackdown
- 2006.10.12: "Lost:" A fan base
- 2006.10.12: Flyboys
- 2006.10.11: CNN: A step behind
- 2006.10.11: How "The O.C." smells
- 2006.10.11: Killing habeas corpus: The upside...
- 2006.10.10: William Shatner can't say no
- 2006.10.10: A Sorkin loser
- 2006.10.09: "Studio 60 on the (Insular, Myopic) Sunset Strip"
- 2006.10.09: Bravo's tribute to failure
- 2006.10.08: Thanks for playing Stump the Mayor
- 2006.10.07: TV Haikus
- 2006.10.06: Media well-done; one medium rare
- 2006.10.06: World's shortest film festival
- 2006.10.06: "Smith:" CBS's John Doe No. 1
- 2006.10.06: War intensifies (over Thursday ratings, that is)
- 2006.10.05: The least distrusted name in news
- 2006.10.05: "Kidnapped" abducted
- 2006.10.05: Fox's double switch
- 2006.10.05: The CW's double switch
- 2006.10.04: X-CongressMen: The Last Stand
- 2006.10.04: And the Pulitzer Prize for drivel goes to...
- 2006.10.04: Onward and Downward
- 2006.10.03: Well, that could've gone better
- 2006.10.02: Who loves you, baby?
- 2006.10.01: "Wonder" shows 'em 2: The Quickening
- 2006.09.30: "Wonder" shows 'em
- 2006.09.29: Pretty "Ugly"
- 2006.09.29: Global tensions have never been so funny
- 2006.09.28: Logrolling, as practiced in Television
- 2006.09.28: All Hail Caesar
- 2006.09.27: "Help Me Help You:" Help, indeed
- 2006.09.27: "Lost" souls
- 2006.09.26: The Looming Belushi
- 2006.09.26: 'Heroes' soars; run away from 'Runaway'
- 2006.09.25: No "Justice," No "Happy Hour"
- 2006.09.25: Warning: Period Verisimilitude
- 2006.09.25: By popular demand, more ratings stuff
- 2006.09.23: The reason it's called 'viral' marketing
- 2006.09.23: The greening of The CW
- 2006.09.22: 'Grey' Matters
- 2006.09.21: 'Jericho' blows up; 'The Biggest Loser:' NBC
- 2006.09.20: "Dancing" tramples the competition
- 2006.09.20: Sluggard enthusiasm for The CW
- 2006.09.19: Nothing to see here
- 2006.09.19: 'Class' Acts; 'Sunset' Strapping
- 2006.09.18: Assault on the Couch Potatoes
- 2006.09.18: CBS: Success made (to look) easy
- 2006.09.17: Laughing all the way to the Banksy
- 2006.09.17: NBC: It’s Lonely at the Bottom
- 2006.09.16: Spiked
- 2006.09.15: Television's procreation update
- 2006.09.15: "Survivor" seeks its immunity idol
- 2006.09.14: A bridge too far out
- 2006.09.14: "Idiocracy's" "Underground:" The future is now
- 2006.09.13: Guilty until proven innocent
- 2006.09.12: Moonves over My-Hammy
- 2006.09.12: As Difficult as A-B-C
- 2006.09.11: 9/11 5: The sequel's never as good
- 2006.09.10: Pink? Really?
- 2006.09.09: Play dramatic CNN music while you read this
- 2006.09.08: "'Til Death:" Sooner than you think?
- 2006.09.08: The Politics of Politicizing Everything
- 2006.09.07: "Idiocracy:" Alive and well at 20th Century Fox
- 2006.09.06: More watch happy "House" than de-perked Katie
- 2006.09.05: Katie Couric: “I hope to see you tomorrow night.?
- 2006.09.04: A persuasive argument for stuntmen
- 2006.09.03: We'll always have Paris, unfortunately
- 2006.09.01: Death Be Not Proud
- 2006.08.31: "Justice" is served
- 2006.08.31: Will Survive for Food
- 2006.08.31: Star Trek XXIV: The Undiscovered Cash Flow
- 2006.08.31: The kitsch stays in the picture
- 2006.08.30: Ja Wohl!
- 2006.08.30: HDTV finally realizes its potential
- 2006.08.29: Maugham: "People who ask for criticism want only praise."
- 2006.08.29: Rescuing "Rescue Me"
- 2006.08.28: Skit happens
- 2006.08.27: And the Emmy for an actually entertaining awards show goes to...
- 2006.08.27: "24" Saves The Emmys: The DVD Commentary
- 2006.08.25: Lose your lunch?
- 2006.08.25: Things more interesting than the Emmy controversy
- 2006.08.25: Bark's bite bitten, which bites
- 2006.08.24: What are they smoking?
- 2006.08.23: "Survivor" segregates the drinking fountains
- 2006.08.22: Fox's ratings haven't "Vanished"
- 2006.08.22: All the news that's fit -- really fit
- 2006.08.21: Coping with Evil in this Modern World
- 2006.08.21: Let the games begin: Fox's season begins tonight
- 2006.08.19: The Mayor of Television Salutes You
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David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.
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