NBC is premiering The Event this month -- specifically, Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. ET. Gauging from the pilot, it promises to be the next series to cryptically bind seemingly unrelated threads into a larger conspiracy, where we won't know who is on what side, or who is exactly doing what to whom, for quite a while...

2010

Aug

I'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY...AND A FEW OTHERS... By Eric Gould

The Emmys for 2010 are over. They began brilliantly -- with an homage to Glee in a hilarious ensemble number, with Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Jorge Garcia, Tim Gunn and my hero, Joel McHale. Then came some surprise wins (Jim Parsons, CBS's The Big Bang Theory), and the inevitable, endless list of Thank You's to people we really have no idea who they are...

2010

Aug

ON "MAD MEN," AND CURRENT CLEVER COMMERCIALS By Eric Gould

Mad Men is back -- the latest episode airs Sunday night at 10 ET on AMC -- and every week as I watch, I think about one of my real guilty pleasures: the art of smart commercials...

2010

Jul

GUEST BLOG #108: ERIC GOULD TAKES ON VIDEO BAD GURLS: MILEY, CHRISTINA, KATY By Eric Gould

Dearest TV Worth Watching Readers: Since I (unintentionally) opened the Pandora's Box topic of the female psyche in current music videos two weeks ago, out sprang the multi-headed Hydra of Miley Cyrus, Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry. Our Fearless Leader of this website, and my long-time mentor, had clearly lost part of his towering mind -- the Smothers Brothers book having taking such a toll on him, he threw these women onto my lap for some kind of understanding and critique...

2010

Jul

GUEST BLOG #103: ERIC GOULD DOESN'T GO GAGA OVER LATEST LADY GAGA VIDEO By Eric Gould

Included and examined, in today's column, are all of four-and-a-half minutes of TV Worth Watching -- if not for the cultural temperature they take, but also for the mishmosh of mixed metaphors, missed metaphors, and random inanities they deliver...

2010

Jun

GUEST BLOG #98: ERIC GOULD ON WHETHER BRAVO'S "WORK OF ART" IS ONE By Eric Gould

The third installment of Bravo's Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist is coming up tonight (Wednesday) at 10 ET, and those of us left wanting to know more about the artistic process of designers on Project Runway haven't been left wondering too long. Help is on the way in the virtual carbon copy of the show, but this time with fine artists...

2010

Jun

GUEST BLOG #96: ERIC GOULD EMBRACES CHELSEA HANDLER... AND WHO CAN BLAME HIM? By Eric Gould

One night a few months back, I got lucky and found Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler's weeknight talk show at 11 ET on the E! network. It took just a minute to get hooked by her jaded, world-weary, no-time-for-it-all shtick that was high on smarts, and extremely low on patience...

2010

Apr

GUEST BLOG #89: ERIC GOULD ON THE TRIUMPH, AND TERROR, OF "PROJECT RUNWAY" By Eric Gould

The seventh season of Lifetime's Project Runway just finished up, and here's another show that has a lot of rewards for artists, designers and creative types beneath the catty cloak of its reality show format. (And yes, this comes from a middle-aged, male heterosexual who is fascinated with the show. Not that there's anything wrong with that...)

2010

Apr

GUEST BLOG #88: ERIC GOULD ON WHAT AN ARCHITECT -- AND YOU -- CAN LEARN FROM GORDON RAMSAY By Eric Gould

Followers of Kitchen Nightmares (Friday nights at 9 ET, Fox) know well that the host, Gordon Ramsay, is a wound-up, caffeinated mix of successful restaurateur, life coach and perverse provocateur. He can turn very bad restaurants into high-functioning and very well-received ones...

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