Khoi Vinh gets Lost fans exactly right:
Granted, I’ve logged only a meager number of hours in the “Lost” universe but already it seems apparent to me that the pleasure that the show evokes has very little to do with unraveling its many mysteries. Rather it’s about the state of being mystified, bewildered and maybe a [...]
Ezra Klein writes the following:
It’s an old story: British TV show comes to America and all of its characters are played by much hotter actors. But American television’s terror of putting normal-looking people on screen is most troubling in “30 Rock.” The biggest failing of that show is that they didn’t have the nerve to [...]
The Wall Street Journal has a devastating expose on the shocking truth behind reality tv dance competitions: They spray tan! A lot! Outrageous I know, though it did lead to this genius headline “Rippling Muscles on TV Dance Shows Are a Pigment of Your Imagination“. Well played. If you actually read the thing you will [...]
Lost in the summer tv doldrums I recently watched the entire first season of FX’s “Sons of Anarchy”. It was great. I had no real expectations going in and didn’t really know what it was about but I found myself finishing watching all 13 episodes in about 3 days (this says a little something about [...]
Will Leitch ask Joel McHale and Chevy Chase about their new NBC show Community:
Had you met before this show?
Chevy Chase: We live together.
Joel McHale: We hadn’t met, but when I heard Chevy Chase was onboard, I said, ‘Somebody please pinch me.’ Acting is what I’d always wanted to do; hosting The Soup was [...]
“Dancing With The Stars” announced the new contestants for their upcoming season this morning and, for some reason, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is one of them. Just when you thought you’d heard it all. I hear DeLay has been a longtime fan of the show but still, I would have thought he [...]
Starring Joel McHale, Chevy Chase and John Oliver and with directors Joe and Anthony Russ from Arrested Development, NBC’s new show ‘Community’ looks pretty good:
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You ever wonder to yourself “Hmm, I wonder how Will Ferrell would do on an episode of Man vs. WIld?” Well guess what, you are about to find out. Will Ferrell is joining Bear Grylss in Sweden as part of a movie promotion tour. And from the description it sounds kinda epic:
In the “Man vs. [...]
The NY Times has a profile of Amy Poehler (via) in anticipation of her new show Parks and Recreation. You don’t really get a sense of how the show is going to be but the profile has some good lines in it:
Amy Poehler on the show: “I think we’ll be the first TV show to [...]
Troy Patterson, in his review of tonight’s The City finale, describes what New York’s Meatpacking District could have been:
Meanwhile, New Yorkers can admire the interstitial shots of elegant fire escapes and underappreciated bridges and also receive final confirmation that the noxiously gentrified Meatpacking District, where Whitney works and plays, would have been better off ceded [...]
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