Tag Archives: Television

I am very excited but also sad about the Athens Olympics starting today. I am a total Olympic buff and will follow the Games as closely as I can on TV between work and the rest of my nonsensical schedule, but I won’t be there. This will be the first …

Dave Chappelle, 30, snags a two-year deal with Comedy Central that could be worth $50m: The new contract is believed to mark not only a steep increase for Chappelle as star, writer, co-executive producer and co-creator of “Chappelle’s Show,” but more significantly, reward him with a hefty chunk of the …

American Idol’s first mass audition of the new season is going on as we speak at Browns Stadium in Cleveland. They began lining up yesterday at 6am, 26 hours before the auditions were to begin today at 8am. Police estimated the hot, sweaty, musical crowd of hopefuls lined up around …

I like Al Franken, although I like him much better as a humorist than as a partisan political pundit. Franken’s radio show will appear on the Sundance Channel beginning in September: “The Al Franken Show,” heard live each weekday from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on Air America Radio, will …

I love Arrested Development: the particularity of its absurdity is sharp and richly detailed, rendering its 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 critics and the industry love the show as …

Ryan Seacrest’s talk show deleted: The syndicated TV series “On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” is going off the air, permanently. Seacrest was unable to turn his visibility as host of Fox’s “American Idol” into success for the talk and music show, and low ratings led Twentieth Television on Tuesday to announce …

If this article isn’t ghost written, then Ted Turner is one hell of a writer, as well as thinker. I have not seen the case made against corporate media consolidation made anywhere else with this clarity, logic, passion, and inside knowledge. You rule, Ted – you should have a blog. …

Gotta admit that I wasn’t holding out much hopes for Rescue Me, fx’s new teledramedy about New York City firemen. I’m not much of a Denis Leary fan – his performances as both actor and comedian frequently hit the same monotonous note – while the show’s overplayed promo with its …

Finally catching up with USA's summer abductee mini-series. . .

American Idol has raised the age limit for competitors from 26 to 28, as auditions for season 4 are set to begin in August in Cleveland, according to the Idol site: REVISED RULES TEXT “AMERICAN IDOL” SEASON 4 MINIMUM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS You must be a legal U.S. citizen or a …