Tag Archives: Television

With so much new stuff coming out over the holiday season, how — other than reading Blogcritics.org, which is now mandatory in 31 states and most of Canada — can a diligent popular culture consumer keep track? One efficient use of time might be Fuse TV’s Amplified Guide to the …

Bill Clinton’s $165 million presidential library — with 80 million pages of presidential records, 79,000 museum objects and almost two million photographs, more material than any president thus far — opens today in Little Rock and a host of notables including the former president, Sen. Clinton, President Bush, and former …

Time flies and all of that: American Idol auditions are over and version 4 returns to Fox in January, a mere hop, skip and calendarial jump away. But there is a flurry of activity going on right now with various Idol personages as the machine begins to crank itself up …

The producer of HBO’s Six Feet Under is pulling the plug after its upcoming fifth season: Alan Ball, creator and executive producer of the ensemble drama starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy and Rachel Griffiths (news), says he feels the show has run its course. “Working on `Six …

By 10pm tonight pretty much everything that is going to be said about tomorrow’s election will have been said, and it will be time for a little condensed levity to clear the air before the tension ratchets up throughout the day tomorrow (and likely beyond). (click on the pic to …

It’s hard not to love the attitude, verve, humor, longevity and physical attributes of Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a., Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Beginning as a local horror movie hostess on KHJ TV in Los Angeles in 1981, the former Vegas showgirl and Groundlings company member has gone on to become …

After AshleeGate erupted Saturday on SNL, Ashlee Simpson was fortunate enough to have a chance to redeem herself, of sorts, a mere 48 hours later at the 2004 Radio Music Awards last night. According to all she sufficiently rocked, and did so live. I mean LIVE live. The effusive administrator …

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown originally aired all the way back in 1966 and is second only to the sainted Christmas pageant in Charles M. Schulz’s great seasonal Peanuts pantheon. Though its appeal is timeless, you also wouldn’t mistake this generally quiet, episodic little masterpiece for a cartoon made …

The grim video footage is here. Like Al says, part of the appeal of SNL is that, in the Eastern Time Zone at least, it really is live and things can and do go wrong. Take Ashleee Simpson’s second song Saturday night. NBC’s SNL board has been burning up since …

Sinclair Broadcast Group (which includes FOX, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN affiliates and reaches approximately 24% of all U.S. television households) — looking down the barrel of advertiser defections, a viewer boycott, a stock price heading south pronto, and strong opposition from Democrats — retreated from its plan to …