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2009
Apr
14
 
 
While working on the book, I've had several professional TV critics and reporters as guest writers. Today, as an experiment, I'm presenting an amateur. But an informed one...Since I'm now teaching TV full-time at Rowan University, I thought I'd give a student or two a chance each term to write a review from his or her perspective...The first of these is a subject that always claims one or two passionate students per term: TV wrestling...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
13
 
 
Today, instead of writing, I'm linking -- to an impressively well-reported essay on Comedy Central Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart, and his place in history. Not just cable history, or TV history... but history. (Yes, Virginia, there was history before television.) And I'd love the article, published in Sunday's Cleveland Plain Dealer by TV critic Mark Dawidziak, even if I weren't one of the people quoted...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
13
 
 
Bill Maher, Ray Bradbury, Matt Groening, Tracey Ullman, Rainn Wilson, John Sayles, Sally Field, Harvey Fierstein, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump and Kermit the Frog -- what's the connection?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
10
 
 
I hardly ever watch The Tonight Show, and in fact I believe, probably too tenaciously, that Jay Leno ruined the franchise, and his move to 10 p.m. ET will damage Conan O'Brien's chances to create a Tonight Show that will allow him to thrive. For O'Brien, an eminently decent human being, the Leno move proves that Life Is Unfair...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
8
 
 
[Tonight's prime-time TV is a very active lineup. One of TV's best current series, ABC's "Lost," presents another fresh episode, while NBC's Life, one of that network's best, presents what may be its final gasp. ABC also presents the premiere of a new series, "The Unusuals." But today's guest columnist, Tom Brinkmoeller, shifts our focus to an ABC show, formerly on NBC, that he feels has yet to get its due respect: the veteran medical sitcom "Scrubs"...]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
8
 
 
Three new shows premiere tonight, with little cause for celebration. NBC's "Parks and Recreation," with Amy Poehler, may develop into something worthwhile, but it's disappointingly derivative. NBC's "Southland" is even more disappointing, and even more derivative -- and "Harper's Island," on CBS, is a bloody mess...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
8
 
 
Last week's episode of Houseon Fox was a shockeroo (although a couple of websites had hinted that one of the regulars would be going down for good). If you missed it, never fear...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
7
 
 
The FX drama series "Rescue Me," has been gone from TV so long, it makes "The Sopranos" look like a poster boy for prime-time promptness. FX even presented five-minute "mini-sodes" in the interim, just to remind viewers of what they were missing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
5
 
 
HBO's "In Treatment" begins its second season just as Showtime's "United States of Tara" concludes its first. Both series are so engrossing, they prove that, in the right hands, TV isn't just good therapy. It's great therapy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2009
Apr
3
 
 
Today, in 1969, CBS fired the Smothers Brothers...