Tag Archives: Television

The only nights I really watch TV are Sunday and Tuesday, and it’s Fox all the way. Weekly, I am astonished by the level of inventive, subversive, satirical humor on the Fox Sunday lineup of The Simpsons, Bernie Mac, Malcolm In the Middle and the scabrous-yet-ingratiating Arrested Development – I …

For all the 24-heads out there – and I’m more or less one of them – a new “talk show” about 24 will be webcast after tomorrow’s (Jan 27) episode at 10pm eastern, and after each episode from now on, called 24Inside. Tomorrow’s guests will be Penny Johnson Jerald (Sherry …

The Return of the King took four awards at the Golden Globes last night: After seven years, it was time for a Hobbit victory dance. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” the final installment of the epic fantasy trilogy that hadn’t yet won most major movie …

Although I don’t like President Bush as much as he does. Miller’s new talk show on CNBC starts tonight: Dennis Miller has usually been happy to spray his acerbic wit across the political spectrum, but things will be different on his new CNBC talk program. President Bush is in a …

It has become a truism and a cliche that the Super Bowl is worth watching for the ads alone. Maybe, the game itself is often over by halftime. When I was DJing full time, I used to work a Super Bowl party one place or another each year and that …

Truly, if they were any cuter we would have to eat them. I can’t tell you why (though I will try), but I find the public display of new love between poptart Jessica Simpson, and her boyband singing husband (formerly of 98 Degrees) Nick Lachey both deeply amusing and inexplicably …

The technology of this may be very cool, but it is intrusive as hell: Beginning [yesterday], more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, [ran] full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives …

I guess we know what’s in store for this week. American Idol runs three times this week – tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday – for a total of five hours of audition footage, two hours more than last season: The fun, of course, is in the hunt. The audition segments have …

The Return of the King is now considered the leading contender for the best film Oscar after taking the top prize from the Producers Guild of America: The Return of the King took the Darryl F Zanuck award for best picture, adding to a string of major honours. Ten of …

Robert Kilroy-Silk has resigned from his talk show on the BBC after it suspended him for writing a controversial column: Mr Kilroy-Silk had hosted the BBC One morning chat show for 17 years. The BBC suspended the programme after the presenter’s contentious column in the newspaper on 4 January. The …