Tag Archives: Television

HBO’s “Six Feet Under” and NBC’s “The West Wing” were the top nominees heading into Sunday’s 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. HBO’s macabre funeral home drama competed in six of the 27 categories presented during the televised ceremony. The White House drama competed in seven categories. “Six Feet Under” received …

The outlandishly smart hero of Fox’s new John Doe (Dominic Purcell) knows everything but his own name. A super savant with the ability to learn anything instantly (put him behind the controls of a helicopter and he’s quickly able to fly it in pursuit of a childnapper), Doe wakes up …

American Idol special taped in Las Vegas: For a group of teenagers and twentysomethings no one had heard of before June, the “American Idol” contestants acted like seasoned pop stars at the taping of their reunion special. Thirty “idols” from the hit Fox TV talent show – which ended only …

I grew up on the original Twilight Zone. When I was really young and the show was in its first season, I remember desperately wanting to watch it but being sent to bed instead. Listening to that perennially evocative theme song through my bedroom door, I just knew I was …

I’m very pleased to have a feature in Salon today on the American Idol contestant contract situation, which is not good, for them: Hope, uncertainty, euphoria, disillusionment: This is a familiar career arc for pop stars caught in the manufacturing cogs of the star-making machine, from Ronnie Spector and the …

Great news: Radley Balko (damn, I love that name) is joining Blogcritics, and he will be doing a running commentary/review of The Sopranos season episode by episode. Here’s the first installment from his site: One murder, some coke, an orgy with Icelandic flight attendants, loads of manipulation, and a capo …

David Kelly looks at Sopranos lit in the NY Times: Literary critics and historians, neo-Marxists and theoretical feminists, postmodernists and pre-post-post-structuralists are scrambling to stake their claims to David Chase’s series. The name-dropping in these books borders on the felonious — why stop at Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese …

Jeff Jarvis will be our latest Blogcritic! Very exciting news. While we are getting the paperwork straightened out, we will link his excellent review of the HBO lineup: The HBO Weltanschauung – or – Why we love The Sopranos There’s a reason the return of The Sopranos is getting so …

An interview with, and profile of Springsteen guitarist, solo artist, producer, activist, and Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt.

The Sopranos returns after 15 months.