Tag Archives: Television

Now that the Donnas are on a major, they are turning up in all the right places: TRL last week, SNL last night. Although I am not thrilled that they have turned in the direction of the chunky hard rock of Kiss or AC/DC and away from their punkier beginnings, …

NBC’s Dateline will do what we did here in early December, follow the twists and turns of Michael Jackson’s face over the last twenty years, a grim undertaking for sweeps week Feb. 17: An NBC News publicist later told Reuters the “Dateline” special would trace “the rise and fall of …

I haven’t seen the Rolling Stones on this tour, nor have I seen them live since, I think, ’89: just haven’t had the heart the take the chance that they would seem old and feeble. Since they are performing live, as in really live at the time of the performance, …

Jackson Browne doesn’t like the way he was portrayed in the TBS JFK Jr. biopic. According to Reuters: Browne’s attorney, Lawrence Iser, said that he demanded in a letter to TBS that it “cease and desist” airing the program again “until false and defamatory scenes accusing Mr. Browne of assaulting …

MTV’s TRL has been featuring punkish rock bands performing live all week under the banner of “Spankin’ New Bands Week.” They’ve already run through the Donnas (if ten years is “spankin’ new”), The Used, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and tomorrow Good Charlotte storms the stage. I don’t know Simple …

Is there anything to the search for instant love behind the reality mating shows on TV? Um, maybe: On The Bachelorette (Wednesday, ABC) a reverse of the network’s dating show The Bachelor, attractive young adults profess an ability to fall in love virtually within the time it takes to make …

The tectonic conflict between the defenders of intellectual property (and its defense mechanisms – copyright, DRMs, etc.) and the forces of free expression is generating news headlines almost daily (just scan our front page) and will shape our vision of knowledge into the next digital era. Every citizen should be …

ABC reality show survives legal challenge that it is imitation of Survivor: Nervous ABC execs breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after CBS failed to prevent its rival from screening “I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!” – the show the House of Mouse hopes will …

I wandered in to my sister’s living room Sunday night – she had the 29th Annual Lemming’s Choice Awards on the big screen. Tony Danza was playing the trumpet, which brought up more questions than my mind could handle: Why was Tony Danza hosting? Why was he playing the trumpet? …

Great Wall Street Journal story on two screenwriters who got a little more reality than they bargained for touring gangland with the police in East LA: There are a million stories in this town, and any one of them could end up as a screenplay. On a cool night last …