Simon Cowell (Image via RottenTomatoes.com) This is what I’m thinking: * It sure was nice to hear CBS’ A-Team cover the Buffalo Bills’ 27-24 loss to the New York Giants Sunday afternoon. Play-by-play man Jim Nantz obviously did his homework on the Bills, instantly telling the Buffalo story of ...

Image via Wikipedia As expected, Channel 2’s “Daybreak” co-anchor Jodi Johnston this morning cleared up the mystery of why she’s been absent for a few weeks and in the process started another mystery. Why couldn’t she hear the questions from her colleagues John Beard and Marissa Bailey? It ...

Image via Wikipedia Where’s Jodi? That’s what regular viewers of Channel 2’s popular morning program “Daybreak” have been asking now that Jodi Johnson has been missing from that program and the 5 p.m. news that she co-anchors for about four weeks. Channel 2 General Manager Jim Toellner said ...

Image via Wikipedia Major league baseball and the National Football League have made a mess of things recently in prime time, especially if you rely on DVRs to watch your favorite shows when it is more convenient for you. Rain delays in Fox’s baseball coverage and NFL games on Sunday carried by CBS ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Early in the pilot of Tim Allen’s new ABC comedy, “Last Man Standing,” his character looks at the sun outside his house to tell the time of the day. “Why don’t you look at the clock?” his acerbic wife Vanessa (played by Nancy Travis) says. Viewers are ...

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m seeing, reading and hearing: * You’ll have to wait until the end to hear what I have to say about NBC sports reporter Pierre McGuire using the word “intriguing” when talking about the Buffalo Sabres during a conference call on the start of ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Expectations can be a killer. Such is the case with the new FX series, “American Horror Story,” which premieres at 10 tonight on the basic cable channel. Several of my friends in the critical fraternity this summer proclaimed “Horror” as the must-see show ...

Image by roanokecollege via Flickr Hold the phone. In the first week of the post-Oprah era, Channel 2 took over the news ratings lead in the 5 p.m. to 6:30 news block from Monday through Friday in the first week of the post-Oprah era. When I reported that weeks ago, I noted the news race is a marathon ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Imagine if Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie, see right) was incarcerated in Tom Fontana’s old HBO series, “Oz.” Or if the self-destructive doctor was hanging around with the Fox gang in “Prison Break.” Then you would have tonight’s so-called TV event – ...