Each network has owned Sunday - television’s most lucrative night - in recent years. It is the most watched night of television. It’s also the only night when prime-time starts an hour earlier than usual. This year there are no new shows on any of the major nets.
ABC starts things off [...]
The networks gave up trying to successfully program Saturday nights a long time ago. Now it’s mostly repeats.
ABC has college football, CBS and NBC have repeats, and Fox has Cops and America’s Most Wanted as they have since the dawn of time. This wasn’t worth the 90 seconds it took to write.
I can’t imagine watching television on a Friday night, especially with what the networks offer. Saturday night is the worst though.
ABC has an hour of Just for Laughs which offers up this synopsis: “A gorilla hanging from a tree surprises pedestrians.” Alright. Following that are two full hours of 20/20. I [...]
ABC has the season premieres of Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy followed by the series premiere of Big Shots, which doesn’t have much buzz. It’s strange that ABC would fill their best timeslot with one of their weakest shows.
CBS returns to its Thursday night lineup from two years ago: Survivor: China, which already [...]
There’s an increasingly disturbing trend going on in the media right now. The major media outlets are doing their very best to censor the candidates who dare to sound original. On the Republican side it’s Ron Paul, for the Democrats it’s Dennis Kucinich.
Kucinich, the only Democrat running for President who originally voted against [...]
It’s upfronts week.
Every year the major broadcast television networks (and The CW) gather to unveil their fall schedules to hungry advertisers. If the advertisers like what they see, or even if they don’t, they shell out billions for primo ad time.
There power of the primetime schedule is not what it used to be. [...]
[The following contains mild to spicy spoilers from last night’s LOST. Read at your own risk.]
What the fuck is going on? Jacob, the “man behind the curtain” is invisible? I wasn’t sure if Ben could actually see him or if he was just fucking with Locke. But then Jacob spoke [...]
The Office is having a strong, creative third season. It doesn’t surprise me that notable Hollywood heavyweights have been stepping to get in on the action. Last week’s vampire-centric episode was directed by Buffy creator Joss Whedon. Tonight’s ep is helmed by LOST and Alias creator J.J. Abrams. Now I think [...]
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