Tag Archives: Television

Tonight is the night for the digitally remastered, gala 40th anniversary presentation of the Charles M. Schulz “Peanuts” classic that the original network, CBS, thought too slow and religious, which was kind of the point. A Charlie Brown Christmas will be shown at 8 p.m. on ABC. Naturally, it was …

Winter Holiday/Christmas programming has become a month-long proposition, kicking in right after Thanksgiving. ABC Family (“25 Days of Christmas“), Lifetime, Hallmark, TV Land (see Sunday, the 11th) and Cartoon Network are especially milking the season of Good Cheer for all its worth. The following is an attempt at something approaching …

Where do America’s favorite celebutants go when their messy complications become too much even for the Fox Network? They go to E!, of course. While Fox tends to specialize in the sensational and tawdry, many of its shows have been known to exhibit other qualities, while if you take the …

Martin says consumers should be able to select cable channels à la carte.

A three-episode collection that provides insight into John Lennon and Yoko Ono and their role and life in the early 1970s.

Proving that Nickelodeon knows how to “cross-platform” promote like a 21st century hybrid of PT Barnum and the Tasmanian Devil, lending the premiere of a new episode of a cartoon series about a walking-talking sanitation utensil with the pitched fervor of a Beatles reunion, last Friday night’s half-hour special episode …

Still buried in the first half of November — heck, I was out mowing the lawn and blowing leaves in a t-shirt and 65-degree breezes Saturday, in Northeast Ohio! — PBS and Nickelodeon have both announced their December holiday programming. I know this stuff is scheduled months in advance – …

The L Word El Bicho chooses is "like."

The tense, taut and remarkably well-sustained season 4 of 24 comes out on DVD next month, and the success of seasons 1-3 on DVD — over 4 million copies sold thus far — is breaking down conventional wisdom about the economics of “single-story line” series, opening up the door to …

As much as I love SpongeBob...