Tag Archives: Television

With the headlong race to the lowest common denominator (and below) in reality TV programming, you knew this was just a matter of time: [Showtime] has greenlit a half-hour latenight reality series chronicling the life of adult entertainment producer, director and occasional performer Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. The currently …

Last Saturday’s SNL was neither very smoothly performed nor memorably written, but with Robert De Niro as the (somewhat reluctant) guest host, it was certainly watched: The Robert De Niro-hosted Dec. 7 edition of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” drew the largest audience for the latenight series since a Britney Spears-fronted …

It is difficult not to notice the irony of two jurors suing for $6 billion worth of slander, slander associated with the award of exorbitant sums in civil suits. Poetic justice, that: A pair of Mississippi jurors have filed a $6 billion lawsuit against CBS’ “60 Minutes,” alleging that its …

There was much pontificating and speculation that 24 was a one-time deal, that the novelty of a mystery-adventure TV show taken in real time, one hour at a time, had worn out its welcome last year. I had concerns of my own because serial TV has a very hard time …

With her legal problems swarming like avenging dust balls, I find I dislike Martha Stewart less now. Perhaps it’s simply because she has been keeping a lower profile so I haven’t had to deal with her craft-nazi smugness, or perhaps she is less smug now with the prospect of prison …

$1 billion was spent on TV advertising in the just past midterm elections. Who gained? TV stations. Did the candidates benefit, did the public? I don’t watch that much commercial TV, but I know I saw a boatload of poorly made, vague, repetitive, boring political commercials that just ran together …

I hate reality shows – hate ’em hate ’em hate ’em – and as the grandaddy of them all The Real World holds a special, contrived, insipid, banal place in my heart. Now the production company behind TRW, Road Rules and Making the Band – particularly loathsome all – is …

Thanks to our own Ross S, public health policy maven extraordinaire, for the heads up on the CDC’s webcast of CDC Bioterrorism Update: Smallpox Preparedness via their website tomorrow and Friday, December 5 and 6, at 5:30 PM ET: BROADCAST INFORMATION “CDC Bioterrorism Update: Smallpox Preparedness” A National Immunization Program …

I like Whitney Houston – she’s about the only current diva I can stand. She has a great voice, good (but not great) musical sense, charisma, beauty, and a sense of humor well-displayed on her 1996 SNL appearance. I even used to like Bobby Brown when he was the King …

Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, James Cameron, Titanic’s “King of the World,” takes on another famous lost ship: The Bismarck, the German warship that went down in 1941 only nine days after it’s departure from Germany. On the show’s site, you can examine the underwater wreckage of the ship, …