One of the first TV shows I ever remember liking was Sledge Hammer, the 80s Dirty Harry spoof that lasted only a season and a half before being cancelled. I don't know why I liked it then, certainly not because I understood all the jokes,...
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Dylan Matthews dug up Neil Genzlinger's New York Times' original review of The Wire. To say the least, it hasn't aged well. It's all served up in dialogue heavy with.
When I was growing up, my Dad watched A LOT of Rockford Files, which means I watched a lot of Rockford Files since the TV was always on. James Garner.
Life for a reality TV writer is pretty tough since they have been classified as independent contractors or overtime-exempt and thus can be exploited heavily. The Writers' Guild is trying to step into the void and organize them. Tricky bosses, faked timecards, excruciating hours, dangerous...
Another Decoration Day, another day to remember the Union crushing southerners committing treason to defend slavery. Two best tweets of this Memorial Day: The creation of Arlington National Cemetery is.
For the 1985 miniseries North and South, the producers hired the greatest actor of his generation to play John Brown. His name? Mr. John R. Cash. Via
If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years, who knows.
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street, 1971. I especially like the line affirming those on welfare. Which I wish was still a relatively robust program, hey thanks Bill Clinton for making.
Hmmm..... Things are looking up for Delaware’s Dogfish Head. Not only were recently voted America’s best craft brewery over at the Daily Meal, there are also murmurs that a sitcom.
A few newer readers were having difficulty finding the Game of Thrones specific information posted of late, and since our "tag" categories work as well as tagging "categories" does, I just thought I'd line the most recent ones up all in one place: Here's the...
ESPN is a great corporation. It is ungodly profitable. It creates a mere 43% of Disney's total operating income. Think about that. All of Disney, including Disneyland and everything else.
Potential spoiler alerts ahead. Let me more or less agree with Coates' view on season 6 of Mad Men, or at least the first few episodes, which can be summed.