I expected more, and less, out of Conan O'Brien's new Conan TBS talk show than he delivered in Monday's premiere. More, because with months to prepare, the opening and prepared bits should have been sharper. And less, because I hoped, without the constraints of trying to please most of the people most of the time on NBC's The Tonight Show, he'd be freer to be himself...

2010

Nov

READY FOR SOME LATE-NIGHT COCO? FOR CONAN O'BRIEN, THIRD TIME'S THE REAL TEST By David Bianculli

Monday night at 11 ET, with the premiere of Conan, Conan O'Brien steps into the spotlight of a TV talk show for the third time. And whether or not this time's the charm, it is, for the first time, the one where we'll see him at his most undiluted... It's not that O'Brien, in his previous incarnations, lacked conviction or wit. I was at the NBC press conference where Conan O'Brien first met the press in 1993, introduced as David Letterman's successor on Late Night. The first volley from reporter

2010

Nov

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US -- TV WORTH WATCHING IS THREE YEARS OLD! By David Bianculli

David wrote about TVWW being launched three years earlier on Nov. 5, 2007, the day the television writers went on strike -- and one reader wrote back, "I get so much more enjoyment from television since I started visiting this site a couple years ago. So many of my favorite shows are ones that I would have never tried at all..."

2010

Nov

CANCELED: FIVE DOWN, ? TO GO By Diane Werts

So "Undercovers" joins the canceled class of freshmen 2010 after NBC announced it's ordering no more episodes after the first 13 run out. No big surprise, really -- J.J. Abrams' Wednesday night afterthought suffered from little things like no chemistry, dopey stories, and an inexplicable misreading of how to recreate an espionage romp...

2010

Nov

DVD DEAL: 'RESCUE ME' SEASON SETS $15 EACH By Diane Werts

Lacking a season of Rescue Me on DVD? Thursday's the day to pick it up -- Just $15 at Amazon for any of the FX drama's five complete-season sets...

2010

Nov

TIGER, LURKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT By Gerald Jordan

This is a grab straight from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs. Set your clocks for "ridiculous" time and get ready to watch Tiger Woods take one last swipe at dragging his season from the wreckage of 2010. His chance for redemption starts at midnight ET Thursday and extends to 4 a.m. Friday on The Golf Channel for round one of The World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions tournament...

2010

Nov

'THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW': TV GREATNESS ON DVD By Ed Bark

Unappreciated at Emmy time and under-seen on HBO, The Larry Sanders Show only grows in stature as time marches on through the late-night talk TV minefield. All 89 episodes are now available via Shout! Factory, the video curator whose restoration projects and dedication to both the great and the bizarre merit yet another full-throated shout-out...

2010

Nov

SUNDAY, SUNDAY: ANSWER TO A QUALITY TV LOVER'S PRAYERS By David Bianculli

It may be hyperbole, but it also may be true. Sunday nights, at this point in the fall 2010 TV season, may be the richest one-stop shopping source for quality television in history. This occurred to me, the last few weeks, when I was selecting five shows to highlight as the Sunday BEST BETS, and rejecting as many excellent TV shows as I accepted...

2010

Nov

FROM D.C. RALLY TO 'INDECISION 2010' - AND THE 'REAL' NEWS TEAMS ARE AROUND, TOO By David Bianculli

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...

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