The Incredibly Strange Film Show has to be one of my all-time favorite series, exploring the heights -- or should I say depths? -- of indie B-moviemaking in all its bloody, breasty, low-budget glory. The perpetrator of this loving '80s look at the likes of Russ Meyer, Ray Dennis Steckler and a dozen other gonzo directors was Jonathan Ross...

2009

Jul

SNEAK PEEK: KEN BURNS 'NATIONAL PARKS' ONLINE By Diane Werts

Can't wait to see Ken Burns' fall epic The National Parks: America's Best Idea? Online site PBS Video lets you watch a half-hour preview anytime...

2009

Jul

WEIRD & WILD: COULD YOU EAT 60 HOT DOGS IN 10 MINUTES? By Diane Werts

Fireworks are soooo 20th century. The modern age knows how to really celebrate America's independence -- gut-stuffing up-chucking gluttony! With that most all-American "food product," too...

2009

Jun

DVD ALERT: 'IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW' AND 'ALLY MCBEAL' By Diane Werts

Now there's an odd mashup. But they're only together in this alert: Both shows are finally being primed for complete-series DVD release!...

2009

Jun

IN MEMORIAM: FARRAH FAWCETT By Diane Werts

Here's what made Farrah Fawcett a star. The 1976 pilot of ABC's hit Charlie's Angels -- three babes in bikinis solve mysteries -- can be streamed free on Hulu, along with such other classics as the prison episode "Angels in Chains"...

2009

Jun

WEIRD & WILD: PENN & TELLER GO FOR THE THROAT (AND PRIVATE BODY PARTS) By Diane Werts

There's nothing quite like bombastic comedy magic philosopher Penn Jillette screaming about orgasms. Unless it's a self-proclaimed "erotic rock star" on stage warbling about them...

2009

Jun

UPDATED LISTINGS: PROGRAMS ON FARRAH FAWCETT, MICHAEL JACKSON By Diane Werts

We'll collect updates here on TV programs scheduled last-minute after the Thursday deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Among the specials yet to air...

2009

Jun

LISTEN UP: CLASSIC 'TONIGHT SHOW' PARODY FROM THE CREDIBILITY GAP By Diane Werts

Ed McMahon's second banana work on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show is now a distant memory -- he and Carson left the show in 1992 -- leaving younger viewers to wonder what the big deal was about when the talkfest cohost died this week at age 86...

2009

Jun

WATCH THIS: HUGH LAURIE NAKED! By Diane Werts

Got your attention, eh? The cranky workaholic from House gets to be a blithering husband and dad in the British comedy import Fortysomething, a breathless six weeks of farcical fun...

2009

Jun

FLICK PICKS: OZ NEVER DID GIVE NOTHIN' TO THE TIN MAN By Diane Werts

Here's an interesting juxtaposition: This week, Sci Fi is repeating its 2007 miniseries Tin Man (Wednesday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET, Sci Fi), a modern fantasy reimagining of L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...

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Diane Werts

Associate Editor

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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