Image via Wikipedia Some random thoughts while watching the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Sunday night on TBS and TNT: * This two-hour show really needs a host to enliven things. All viewers may not have loved Ricky Gervais’ mean-spirited act on the Golden Globes but at least it was something to talk about and [...]
Image via Wikipedia How much do local viewers miss Simon Cowell (see right) on “American Idol”? If Thursday night’s ratings is a judge, the answer is a whole lot. In its second week with new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, the TV sensation only averaged a 10.9 rating on WUTV-Channel 29, the local Fox [...]
Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * Eyewitness News made a startling choice as its lead at 11 p.m. Thursday. It didn’t go with the Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan trial. That ordinarily might have been worthy of applause by those (including me) who believe extensive coverage of the bizarre trial has exceeded its news [...]
Image via Wikipedia I was shocked after watching the third episode of MTV’s controversial new teen series “Skins.” The shock was over how shocking the episode wasn’t. After all, the third episode is the one that is supposed to be so shocking that MTV is going to have to censor it before it premieres Monday. [...]
Several days ago, I wrote that I understood all the interest in the beheading trial of Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan but still wondered if the local TV stations and the Buffalo News really thought that viewers and readers needed live blogging of every detail. I also questioned whether their manpower could be put to better [...]
Image via Wikipedia The way the Time Warner feature On Demand works isn’t very funny. At least it isn’t very funny to local fans of some of the top-rated comedies in America and Western New York. One blog reader noted that he missed an episode of ABC’s “Modern Family” because a speech by President Obama [...]
Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * It was a little surprising to get a Showtime release announcing that the David Duchovny male fantasy series “Californication” will return for a fifth season. As I’ve said before, the series about self-destructive novelist Hank Moody (Duchovny,see right) is one of my guilty pleasures. During my [...]
Image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning in time to see the results of a poll on new “American Idol” judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler (see right) that aired at the end of Channel 2’s “Daybreak.” The results made you wonder if the show’s Water Cooler effect would depart this season with acerbic [...]
Image via Wikipedia When watching the new TV Land sitcom premiering at 10:30 tonight, “Retired at 35,” I couldn’t help but think of “Seinfeld.” Not because “Retired” is anywhere near funny as Jerry’s TV classic, but because the two old pros starring in it, George Segal and Jessica Walter, remind me of Seinfeld’s parents, Morty [...]
Image via Wikipedia At the end of Monday’s premiere of CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” Larry King’s replacement asked first guest Oprah Winfrey to assess his opening night performance. Winfrey concluded that he was “surprising.” “Surprisingly bad?” joked Morgan (see above). Of course, Winfrey was a gracious guest and wouldn’t say any such thing. But your friendly [...]