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2010
Nov
19
 
 
It was hard not to laugh this week when NBC announced its midseason schedule would continue its Thursday night of comedy past 10 p.m. ET, by pushing back Tina Fey's Emmy-winning 30 Rock and the freshman series "Outsourced". After all, one of the jokes in the previous weekend's PBS special honoring Fey with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor concerned how low the ratings for 30 Rock have been...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
19
 
 
Several days after the last-second scrubbing of Craig Ferguson's much-rehearsed, much-anticipated musical opening to his Doctor Who special edition of CBS's "The Late Late Show", it still hasn't shown up on the Internet....TV WORTH WATCHING would be HAPPY to post the original number, by the way, if there's any way we could obtain it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
17
 
 
Tuesday night on late-night television, Craig Ferguson didn't sing, as he had promised to, on CBS -- but over on NBC, as Jimmy Fallon's guest, Bruce Springsteen did. Both the singing and the non-singing, as it turned out, involved a surprise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
17
 
 
How about that, "Dancing With the Stars" fans? Brandy's gone, and Bristol stays. You might want to say goodbye to your No. 1-rated program now, too. It's going down the tubes. She can't dance. Yes, she can do the steps, and extend "her line," and do all other technical stuff required. But the girl has zero musicality on the floor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
15
 
 
After this week's Episode 3 of Turner Classic Movies' superb docuseries "Moguls & Movie Stars" (Monday at 8 p.m.) takes us through Hollywood's glorious 1920s, TCM delivers four renowned silent features. The gorgeous 1927 Oscar winner "Sunrise" (Nov. 15 at 9 p.m. ET) is followed by John Ford's sprawling western "The Iron Horse"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
15
 
 
One of the bad things about being a television critic is having to work odd hours -- so little time, so much TV. Another of the bad things, an occupational hazard, is stumbling upon late-night horrors few people are awake to endure. I dealt with one this morning, on a super-late, or super-early, film review on ABC's World News Now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
12
 
 
AMC has cancelled "Rubicon", its intellectual thriller about global conspiracies, but ordered a second season of "The Walking Dead", its other freshman series, which continues Sunday night at 10 ET. Why are spies executed, but zombies allowed to, uh, live? Our Rowan University student correspondent, Rich Greenhalgh, looks at "zombie appeal"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
11
 
 
Most of the time, when I teach TV History and Appreciation to my students at New Jersey's Rowan University, one goal is to get them to imagine watching old television when it was new. But every once in a while, comparisons to TV old and new have me looking at today's television through THEIR eyes. It's a very different experience -- and recently, NBC's 30 Rockgave me that chance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
11
 
 
Besides giving us perhaps one of the great literary titles for a TV show, David Cross's The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret has also given us the next great cringe-comedy character, no-holds-barred indie-style, on IFC...he's given us a schlubby office temp and habitual liar who's never been out of Portland, Oregon, yet by accident finds his way into a senior sales position and very quickly, he realizes he is in way, way over his head, and has to go on with it, or admit failure -- worst, to himself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
10
 
 
Just a quick follow-up to the new Conan O'Brien TBS talk show status. Had the show he delivered Tuesday night run instead as the Monday back-to-TV premiere, my review would have been substantially more positive...