I guess I was looking for a miracle from Tuesday night's extra spiritual episode of Glee. Executive producer Ryan Murphy has faith in himself, I'll say that. Setting up his high school musical as a pop parable on modern day spirituality is a tall task. He's inviting scorn from the right and the left, from the Tea Partiers and the Agnostics. Only a producer with a two-year commitment and riding a ratings surge would get a network to sign off on a religion-in-schools storyline...

2010

Oct

CRIME TIME: CONAN STOLE OUR COLOR! By Diane Werts

You see it? He's using our orange!! We here at TVWW Central have decided to simply consider this his tiny tribute to our trusty tribe of tubeheads...

2010

Oct

TRIBUTE: STEPHEN J. CANNELL By Diane Werts

At least we'll still see the pages flying out of his typewriter for years to come. Producer Stephen J. Cannell, who died at age 69 Thursday night of complications from melanoma, leaves behind a body of TV shows that's right up there with prolific tube titans like Aaron Spelling...

2010

Oct

DO 'RUBICON' PICTURES TELL ALL? By Eric Gould

It's always clear when a show is at its top; the directing, acting, styling, lighting and film are all going effortlessly in the right direction. It's a true thing of beauty. And sometimes, editors and directors stay on a shot for a few extra seconds for us (and probably them), to take it all in. In the case of Rubicon (Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on AMC), those extra seconds may also be something more...

2010

Oct

PLAYING 'WHERE'S WALDO?,' AND 'PEACE TRAIN,' AT JON STEWART'S RALLY By Mark Bianculli

There I stood, tightly packed in a sea of people, watching some musical number or other in the opening hour of the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/or Fear," when suddenly, from behind, a man dressed as Waldo (as in "Where's Waldo?") came crowd-surfing slowly over my head. But that, believe it or not, was not the unusual part...

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