The Simpsons trundles along as history’s longest-running scripted series, 27 years... One of the reasons for the show’s success is that it stays up-to-the-minute...

2016

Feb

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN By Jonathan Storm

Bob Elliott (left in photo with Ray Goulding), half of the legendary, semi-absurdist comedy duo of Bob & Ray, died Tuesday (2/2) at the age of 92...

2016

Jan

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL REDUX By Jonathan Storm

Older, and maybe wiser, five of the stars of High School Musical will reconvene on the Disney Channel for the tenth anniversary celebration of the TV movie that reached 100 million viewers around the world in 2006, won a boatload of awards, and was performed by students in more than 2,000 U.S. schools in its first 15 months...

2016

Jan

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE... By Jonathan Storm

...but you probably won’t find it in The X-Files, one of history’s greatest TV shows, though there are thrills, chills, and weirdness a-plenty. Scully and Mulder return Jan. 24 on Fox...

2016

Jan

A SAD SURPRISE By Jonathan Storm

The world lost a big one Sunday with the death of David Bowie...

2015

Dec

YES, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS IN VIRGINIA By Jonathan Storm

... and her name is Jeannie Klisiewicz. She’s the Good Cheer assistant on Ellen, and Ellen DeGeneres dispatched her to surprise a big-hearted, hard-working second grade teacher in Leesburg, Va., not only with a little airtime on her favorite daytime talk show, but with a few presents, too...

2015

Dec

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU By Jonathan Storm

British comedy team Greg Haiste and Marie Lawrence have put together an hilarious spoof Star Wars trailer in the style of naturalist British director Ken Loach and his 1969 film Kes, complete with appropriately weird Yorkshire dialect...

2015

Nov

THIS IS NO JENNY FROM THE BLOCK By Jonathan Storm

As part of a BBC special hosted by Graham Norton, producers rounded up nine Adele impersonators, supposedly to audition for a reality show. They’re a varied lot... including one extremely nervous woman introduced as Jenny...

2015

Nov

RACHEL MADDOW'S CRYSTAL BALL By Jonathan Storm

People waking up Wednesday morning to news that police had raided an apartment in the Paris suburbs, and killed two terrorists, were perhaps not surprised, if they had seen this Monday night introduction to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show...

2015

Nov

WHO CALLED IT “THE BOOB TUBE”? By Jonathan Storm

Stephen Colbert pondered the blurry line between art and porn on TV after the recent $170 million sale for Modigliani’s painting “Nu Couche”, which depicts a nude woman lying on a couch...

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Jonathan Storm

Jonathan Storm has watched television since he was 5 years old. He would wake up early, turn on the TV and watch the test patterns as he waited for The Modern Farmer to begin. Eventually, he put all that experience to good use, working as the TV critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 22 years before retiring in 2011. He’s still watching, and writing free-lance for The Inquirer and other outlets.

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