Hope you weren't looking forward to Sunday's Fox Animation Domination three-way crossover stunt. It is no more. It has ceased to be. At least until next season...

2011

Apr

ROYAL WEDDING: TOO, TOO, TOO MUCH! By Diane Werts

How much TV coverage of a royal wedding can one country stand? Americans are finding out -- with Friday's marriage of the UK's WIlliam Who Would Be King and his betrothed Commoner Catherine -- the answer to that question is "saturation." OK, I get live as-it-happens satellite coverage on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. Or news channels like CNN and MSNBC. Even PBS, with its raging Anglophilia. And obviously, BBC America. Obviously, Wedding Central. But do we need live nuptials on TLC, home of Extreme

2011

Apr

SALUTE: 40 YEARS OF ERIKA SLEZAK By Diane Werts

Now here's something you don't get to see in prime time -- an actor playing the same role for 40 years. And we might not be seeing it much longer in daytime, either. So be there Wednesday when ABC's "One Life to Live" celebrates Erika Slezak's four decades (and six Emmys) playing solid citizen/slutty chick Viki Lord Lord Riley Burke Riley Buchanan Buchanan Carpenter Davidson Banks...

2011

Apr

FLASHBACK: 'AN AMERICAN FAMILY' (RE)SURFACES By Diane Werts

I'm not sure if "reality" TV starts here, or ends here. But "here" is TV's original docusoap miniseries, from 1973 -- PBS's "An American Family". HBO revisits that landmark societal moment in its fact-based April 23 movie drama "Cinema Verite" -- and the next day, PBS's WORLD channel encores the original source material, all 12 aired hours of it, for the first time in 20 years...

2011

Apr

GREAT GUESTS: MEL BROOKS, OZZY OSBOURNE AND MORE By Diane Werts

You never know where you'll spot TV's coolest guest star lineup. But maybe your 3-year-old does. This week of new episodes on Disney Junior's "Special Agent Oso" (weekdays at 1 p.m. ET/PT) features Mel Brooks, Freddy Rodriguez, Doris Roberts, Sarah Chalke and other great performers. Okay, it's just their voices, but still...

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