The holidays are over. We’re 11 days into frigid January. Spring is 68 days away. What do we have to look forward to? TV winter premieres, that’s what (hey, it’s something). Now the real truth is that we’re going to have to wait many months for some of our faves to come back (Glee for instance, returns in April), but some have already returned (Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Modern Family, Cougar Town), there are some new goodies on their way now and some of our go-tos return this week. Here’s what to watch for this winter season: [Read more →]

Tags: Lauren Likes TV, television by Lauren LaBumbard
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Due to a tear in the time-space continuum, the following, which appears to be a wish list for a New Hollywood Squares pilot episode for Fall 2030, found its way into my email box. Sender: The Future.

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Tags: art & entertainment, television by Joshua Goldowsky
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Since the beginning I have claimed to be a Family Guy fan. And I suppose I still am. It’s fun to watch a show push boundaries and earn a fan base purely on cut-a-way gags. But, I was watching Family Guy in syndication and realized the following: I’ve never really liked this show; left to my own devices I’d never watch it; but I love being someone who watches Family Guy when I’m around other people. Yes, I realize this is fucked up. [Read more →]

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10. Car Crash on 34th Street

9. So You Think You Can Gift Wrap

8. Bob Dylan’s Hanukkah/Christmas Special

7. Bernie Madoff’s New Year’s Rockin’ Prison Eve

6. Rudolph the Downsized Reindeer

5. I Saw Adam Lambert Kissing Santa Claus

4. When Reindeer Attack

3. Drape Some Tinsel on This, Charlie Brown!

2. The Grinch Who Robbed Parking Meters

1. Don Knotts’s It’s A Wonderful Fife
 

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Tags: Bob Sullivan's top ten everything, ends & odd, television by Bob Sullivan
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Enjoying my last couple days of leisure before the campus re-opens for the spring, and I am once again required to behave with a degree of activity, responsibility and punctuality that has been noticeably – and deliberately, happily – absent the last couple of weeks. I could be knocking off one more book from my ‘must-read’ list, taking in one more film at the local cineplex, or scratching one or two more items off that ‘honey-do’ list on the fridge … or I could be spending a LOT more time in front of the tee-vee.
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Tags: art & entertainment, television by Jeff McDonald
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I’ve been busy basking in the tanning bed glow of my latest television obsession, Jersey Shore on MTV. The brain trust on Jersey Shore is all about alcohol fueled sex, one night stands, and boyfriends who are married. And while I’ve been waiting for poor Snooki to get punched in the face by some a-hole on tonight’s episode, MTV has been quietly airing a show that portrays life far away from the drunken antics in New Jersey. Teen Mom is as sobering as it gets. [Read more →]

Tags: family & parenting, television by Nancy DeGregorio
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Michael Moriarty, the actor who portrayed the original assistant district attorney on the groundbreaking and very original Law & Order TV program, has written a piece  for http://bighollywood.com denouncing his former show’s producer for allowing the popular program to become increasingly left-wing.

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Tags: politics & government, television by Paul Davis
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The Sing-Off (Monday, 8PM, NBC) — NBC has decided to finally get caught up in musically-talented reality TV shows (The Singing Bee doesn’t count) and all I can say is Merry Christmas to me. Take American Idol, combine it with Glee and sprinkle in a little America’s Next Dance Crew and you’ve got The Sing-Off… a week long extravaganza which begins on Monday in a 2-hour premiere.

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Tags: Lauren Likes TV, television by Lauren LaBumbard
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If you’re like me and consider watching reality television a full-time job, then you’ll be setting your TiVo for the second installment of Jersey Shore tonight on MTV. It’s arguably the worst that television has to offer these days, which is why I love it and cannot wait for tonight’s episode. In fact, it’s so bad (and by “bad”, I mean brilliant) that I’m considering skipping the TiVo and watching it in real time. [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, television by Nancy DeGregorio
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The LA Times reports that UCLA plans to screen the old Sherlock Holmes classic films.

I like Basil Rathbone in his early films as Holmes, but I was not crazy about Rathbone/Holmes fighting Nazis in the later films. Holmes was out of his time and element in those films.

I was also a big fan of Jeremy Brett as Holmes on PBS’ Mystery!  The series was very faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.   

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Tags: movies, television by Paul Davis
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Our nation’s women are being swept off their feet by a (not exactly) new phenomenon — vampires!

Sexy, young, brooding, vampires — not the swishy Bela Lugosi kind. The vampire I am talking about kinda looks like a cracked out John Mayer. [Read more →]

Tags: movies, television by Marty O'Connor
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Until Thursday, I was perfectly happy to be the tail wagging the very, very end of the Baby Boomer dog. But, apparently, I am in reality part of the lamest-ass generation since Generation Y (how sad are those afterthoughts?)

That’s right, Generation Jones. What does it mean, you ask? How is it that one surname can so succinctly encompass the dreams and lives of those born between 1954 and 1965? [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, television by Ari McKee
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“But that’s too strong cuz it is my favorite holiday.” It’s about that time… your turkey leftovers should be gone (and if they’re not, please throw them away), black friday and cyber monday are behind us, the big Christmas tree is lit at Rockefeller Center, and “Last Christmas” by Wham! is playing at every Gap across America.  It’s official, the holidays are here. [Read more →]

Tags: Lauren Likes TV, television by Lauren LaBumbard
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When I was a kid, before school, I’d pour myself a bowl of Cap’n Crunch and watch TBS.  Back in those days, TBS rotated classic comedy shows in their morning schedule, and so I’ve seen more episodes of Gilligan’s Island, Bewitched, and Andy Griffith than I care to admit. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, television by Joseph Anderson
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I just read a news item that informed me that ABC has announced they will air an Oprah Winfrey/President Obama Christmas special.

As Obama is slipping badly in the polls, failing at most of his major programs, and doesn’t appear to be all that interested in national security, I’d like to offer a modest proposal that will make all of America happy. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, television by Paul Davis
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If you are like me and can’t get enough of the troubled Gosselin family, you tuned in to the series finale of Jon and Kate Plus Eight last night on TLC. The series came to a close quietly, the same way it began – with Kate being pragmatic as ever and Jon blinking stupidly into the camera. After five seasons, the show is ending following Jon’s claims that the constant presence of the cameras is harming his children. Funny how the constant presence of money from TLC into his bank account hasn’t harmed anyone. [Read more →]

Tags: television by Nancy DeGregorio
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I’m a little behind on watching The Oprah Winfrey Show, so it was with great surprise that I recently discovered that my beloved idol, Oprah Winfrey, will be bringing her show to an end in September 2011. Upon hearing her utter the ill-fated words, “The countdown to the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show starts now”, I fell to my knees and let out a scream heard around the world. [Read more →]

Tags: television by Nancy DeGregorio
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The American Music Awards (Sunday, 8PM, ABC) — I am a big fan of music award shows. Grammy’s, VMA’s… hell I’ll even watch the CMA’s. Last night were the American Music Awards so obviously I watched. I didn’t get around to many shows this week so I am dedicating this week’s column to the awards show. It was clearly a night for the ladies. My commentary below: [Read more →]

Tags: Lauren Likes TV, music, television by Lauren LaBumbard
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Glee, Wednesday 9PM, FOX — Glee returned this week and has once again managed to hit the high notes (well almost). It was nice to see Artie as the center story line this week as they focused on the obstacles of his disability and his sheepish romance with Tina (that faker… she never did do a good stutter). His unconventional rendition of “Dancing With Myself” was sweet and one of my favorite numbers of the year.

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Tags: Lauren Likes TV, television by Lauren LaBumbard
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Although TV has had a long standing love affair with science fiction, it has generally avoided basing its SF shows on the works of bonafide science fiction writers as it has in the case of “FlashForward,” originally a book by award-winning SF novelist, Robert Sawyer. Rather than let the book stand on it own merits, the producers have warped it to make it to fit the Network TV mold, adding cops and bad guys, dumbing down the ideas, and perpetuating the TV stereotype that if a scientist ain’t a cop (e.g., “Numbers,” “11th Hour,” “CSIs,” “Fringe,” etc.), then he must be mad and bad.

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Tags: books & writing, television by Mark Guerin
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