Three days after staging their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are teaming for another ambitious event -- live election-night Comedy Central coverage (at 11 p.m. ET) of what it calls Indecision 2010. But this time, the real news networks are playing, too...

2010

Nov

AND IT'S FREE! By Mike Donovan

For the past several months I've read critics and reviewers writing about how this was maybe the worst new season in broadcast history...You can buy a decent TV for about $500, and it'll last about 10 years. That's about $50 a year. The problem seems to be that people (especially critics and reviewers) expect about $50 a night of entertainment...

2010

Nov

DVD DEAL: 'MODERN FAMILY' DISCOUNT By Diane Werts

A full TV season DVD for under $20 usually means it's a "vintage" show. But not today. Tuesday's Amazon deal of the day is the first season of the reigning comedy Emmy-winner -- ABC Wednesday night linchpin "Modern Family"...

2010

Nov

VOTE: TV WORTH READING? By Diane Werts

"TV Guide" used to be the bible for tube fans. But in recent years, this once-savvy news magazine has increasingly become more of a trendoid gossip mag, packed with fashion photos and way! too many! exclamation points!...

2010

Nov

'FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' REMAINS A WINNER By Alan Pergament

It is time to get sentimental about "Friday Night Lights". And with Friday Night Lights. The series about life in a small Texas town where high school football is king just entered its final season on DirecTV's The 101...In a TV season that is without a must-see new hit, Lights shone as brightly and as beautifully as ever in last week's premiere episode, titled "Expectations"...

2010

Nov

WATCHING TV: SIX DECADES OF AMERICAN TELEVISION (SECOND EDITION) By David Bianculli

The second edition of this book has been out for a few years, but it's still the best one-shop-stopping detailed overview of TV, season by season, ever published. It has season-by-season schedules, a running timeline, and annual summaries of TV events and trends that are written clearly, with more insight and scope than you usually find in such wide-ranging overviews...

2010

Nov

REALITY SHOW: INSIDE THE LAST GREAT TELEVISION NEWS WAR By David Bianculli

The subtitle to Washington Post media reporter and CNN Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz's book is pessimistic if not prescient, but is guaranteed to turn out to be one or the other. What we're witnessing these days as viewers of the network evening newscasts - or, increasingly, as non-viewers - is indeed the biggest sea change in more than 20 years...

2010

Nov

NEW TCM HISTORY OF OLD MOVIES: IT'S GOOD, AND THE MOVIES AFTERWARD ARE EVEN BETTER By David Bianculli

Turner Classic Movies, one of the only cable networks that has remained totally true to its original vision, begins a seven-part documentary series tonight that examines the history of the movies, and the business behind it. It's a good, solid examination -- and what's even better are the movies that follow each week's installment...

2010

Oct

'WALKING DEAD' ISN'T JUST GRAPHIC HORROR - IT'S COMPELLING HUMAN DRAMA By Ed Martin

Television viewers will remember 2010 as the year that began with the arrival of the most brutal and graphic series in the history of the medium -- Starz' gory gladiator epic Spartacus -- and ended with the premiere of another show that is in many ways even more violent and shocking -- AMC's The Walking Dead. Tellingly, both programs could have been slapdash cheese fests, in the rich traditions of the low-budget sword-and-sandal movies and goofy zombie flicks that filled drive-ins (and late-n

2010

Oct

THE GHOST IN THESE MACHINES IS DIGITAL By Tom Brinkmoeller

It's pretty safe to assume that wherever a voter in the upcoming election falls on the Red-to-Blue political spectrum, that person may be a little wary of the efficacy of America's voting system. A story on Friday's "Need to Know" on PBS might give that suspicion bug additional shelf life...

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