Tag Archives: Television

24's President Charles Logan has got it all. The jowls; the beady, shifty eyes; the drabby suit. Sound familiar?

I usually think of Don Knotts in the role of Barney Fife, in which he blazed a path that earned him five Emmy Awards.

As Nickelodeon has seeped into the fabric of American childhood (and parenthood) over the last two and a half decades, the network’s annual Kids’ Choice Awards has taken on the stature of … a … really important kids’ award show … okay, a mini-Oscars. Jack Black, fresh off his obliquely …

Canadian Politics makes it to the daytime talk show circut!

I loved the first season of Arrested Development in ’03-’04; the particularity of its absurdity was sharp and richly detailed rendering its inventive satire on American values, the idle rich, the formerly idle rich, the formerly rich but still idle, and intra-family relationships telling as well as hilarious. The show …

The fifth season of American Idol is off to an astonishing start with ratings higher than ever through the audition and Hollywood rounds. Will interest continue throughout the season? Will compelling new stars emerge? Will superstar Kelly Clarkson's cooling toward the show that put her on the map — she …

A frenetic first weekend of the XX Winter Games is complete in Torino, Italy, with the Tomato flying to halfpipe gold, a Texan with Vulcan eyebrow skaking really fast, Bode a medal bust, Italy a luge winner on its $100 million track, Norwegian cross-country skier making a miraculous last-to-second run, …

Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer — gaunt and with close-cropped hair, as if the accumulated weight of his frought past was all the baggage his frame could bear — returns from the (presumed) dead in season five of the hit “clock” series 24 to take on ruthless “Central Asian” (read “Chechen”) …

I have to admit that as ridiculous as it was to ignore home-grown Motor City talent, and as byzantine as all the logistics must have been to get the Rolling Stones and their massive trademark red tongue stage onto the field and ready to go for a three-song cup of …

A bland yet enjoyable serving of comfort food for your TV