In case you missed last night's Emmy Awards -- and really, the final game at Yankee Stadium on ESPN was a much more exciting place to be -- ABC.com has a clip of key acceptance speeches on its Emmys web page...

2008

Sep

STAY TUNED: VINTAGE CAMPAIGN ADS By Diane Werts

When it's just too depressing to watch today's mudslinging campaign commercials -- which is pretty much all the time -- you can turn instead to a priceless collection of previous presidential campaign spots. In other words: You can see how we got to the fine mess we're in today...

2008

Sep

SITES TO SEE: NBC PREMIERES ONLINE By Diane Werts

Why wait to catch those new fall shows on TV? Start early online. NBC is posting its freshman pilots all over the place this season, trying to generate buzz and ratings...

2008

Sep

WEIRD & WILD: 'LOST' 2.0 STARTS ON G4 By Diane Werts

We're about to get lost in Lost. David Bianculli's Monday best bets pick the Sci Fi repeats (also available in HD!), but I'd also like to point you toward the cycle beginning Monday on G4, otherwise a gamer/geek channel...

2008

Sep

HOT SPOT: FEWER COMMERCIALS! BRILLIANT! By Diane Werts

So how fast did Fringe fly by? Know why? Judging by Tuesday night's premiere, it's not the show itself, whether you love it (I'm nuts for twitchy star Anna Torv) or don't (all that pseudo-science can get tiresome)...

2008

Sep

WEIRD & WILD: CAPTAIN JACK, PRE-'TORCHWOOD' By Diane Werts

While Torchwood fans wait for in-production Season 3 to premiere on BBC America, we can time-trip back to the introduction of John Barrowman's hot ambisexual hero, Captain Jack Harkness...

2008

Sep

FLICK PICKS: POLITICS, HOLLYWOOD STYLE By Diane Werts

With this year's presidential race shaping up fact to be wilder than fiction, perhaps the scripted stuff offers more true insight than reality can...

2008

Aug

FLICK PICKS: CINERAMA LIVES! (SORT OF) By Diane Werts

How the West Was Won debuts on Encore Westerns Saturday at 8 p.m. after a six-year frame by frame restoration of the original three-strip Cinerama print of the 1962 epic...

2008

Aug

WEIRD & WILD: 'TRUE BLOOD' VAMPIRES OOZE ONTO THE WEB By Diane Werts

True Blood is so much fun on the internet, who cares if it ever premieres on TV?...

2008

Aug

REALITY CHECK: 'DANCING WITH THE STARS' CAST By Diane Werts

No deaf people or amputees this time. Just Erica Kane and Olympic athletes. And Cloris Leachman. Gloriously fun and foul-mouthed 82-year-old Cloris Leachman!...

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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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