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  • Voice Choices

    February 15, 2012

    TWIN PEAKS REDUX

    Don’t forget the cherry pie

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Oddsmaking: Will Louis C.K. Or Lonely Island Overtake "Weird Al" And Win Best Comedy Album?

    ​Throughout the award's history, Grammy voters have tended to bestow Best Comedy Album upon trusted favorites: Bill Cosby closed out the 1960s with six straight victories; Richard Pryor took home three trophies in the '70s and two more in the '80s; and Peter Schickele opened the '90s with four ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 18, 2012

    BEEN GONE

    Kelly Clarkson  returns to New York

  • Voice Choices

    January 18, 2012

    PUT A BIRD ON IT

    Portlandia live on stage

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Michelle Matson Wins, Sucklord Rules: Your Cheat Sheet to Bravo's Work of Art 2, Episode One

    Actual poll currently running on the Bravo site There is a Bravo show called Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. As we've told you before, it's a reality-TV competition ostensibly about searching every gallery nook and gutter grate for America's Next Great Artist--not a Very Good Art ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark! I Was There!

    ​Above is the image that promoted the original Don't Be Afraid of The Dark--the 1973 TV movie Guillermo del Toro was inspired to remake, as a writer/producer, with Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. I included it strictly for shock value because you didn't expect it. (Boo!) Well, last night, at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    The Rebirth Brass Band Bring Their Brashness To Treme

    ​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Where Have All the Yankees Fans Gone?

    photo by Neil deMause​Following last night's ten-inning loss to the Twins, the Yankees' record stands at 3-2 (good!) and the team trails Buck Showalter's undefeated Orioles by a game and a half in the AL East (bad!). But since everybody knows that early April stats don't matter (remember how t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Schnitzel & Things and Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Will Be Featured on TV, Expect Longer Lines Soon

    Coming soon to a small screen near you​Food trucks are just dominating television content these days. Following in the footsteps of The Great Food Truck Race and Food Truck Revolution (and, naturally, the food truck porno The Flying Pink Pig) comes a new show called Eat Street on Cooking Chan ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2011

    END TIMES

    How would you survive the apocalypse?

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    MTV Execs on Skins: It's Almost Too Sexy; No Seriously, Look How Sexy These Shiny Kids Are

    ​The latest hot and sexy word out of MTV is that their new show Skins, based on the old show Skins, might be in trouble for child porn because it's just that racy and out of control. On the front page of today's New York Times, unnamed executives worry that the "provocative new show...may viol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    U.S. Version of Skins: "Most Dangerous" Show Ever

    via MTV: Skins.tv​MTV's new series Skins, an American remake of the drugs-and-sex-filled British series, has been declared by the Parents Television Council "the most dangerous television show for children" that they have ever seen. The New York Daily News quoted the PTC's president Tim Winter ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2011

    COME SAIL AWAY

    It’s the 106th annual New York Boat Show

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2010

    Roger Ebert Gives At the Movies New Life

    ​After the year Roger Ebert has had, it's no surprise that he's getting a chance to spearhead the comeback of his storied public TV review show At the Movies. In February, a moving Esquire profile chronicled Ebert's struggles with cancer, which resulted in the removal of his jaw and loss of t ... More >>

  • Film

    July 27, 2010

    Brooklyn's Own King of Chutzpah, Phil Silvers, Now on DVD

    ​After the year Roger Ebert has had, it's no surprise that he's getting a chance to spearhead the comeback of his storied public TV review show At the Movies. In February, a moving Esquire profile chronicled Ebert's struggles with cancer, which resulted in the removal of his jaw and loss of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    MTV and CW Rewarded For Representing Gays on TV, Still Lack Diversity

    Transgenders on TV!​The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has awarded their first-ever rating of "excellent" to MTV for offering "richly diverse portrayals of gay and transgender people" for 42% of their line-up. The CW fell only a little short with 35% of their airtime devoted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    KFC Double Down Sandwich Gets a Bun; Spike TV Gets On the Rocks

    ​KFC's mega hit, the Double Down Sandwich, will soon morph into The Doublicious, comprising an Original Recipe fillet, Monterey Jack cheese, bacon, and Colonel's Sauce -- just like the Double Down -- but with a sweet Hawaiian Bread roll to hold it all together. [Nation's Restaurant News] Dean ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    The Original Reality Show Is Coming To HBO

    ​Way before Snooki, there was An American Family--the original reality show, documenting the dissolution of the Louds, a well-to-do, charismatic Santa Barbara family at war with itself. Well, HBO is shooting a TV movie called Cinema Verite, a behind-the-scenes look at that 1973 show, with Dia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Jersey Shore's Snooki and Senator John McCain Confront Tanning Tax and Other Things That Are Totally Ruining America

    ​Okay, so this reality television personage known as "Snooki" (a/k/a Nicole Polizzi, you probably know her as "the girl who got punched in the face on the Jersey Shore") said some things about President Obama's proposed, totally bogus tanning tax during the second season's first episode. Well, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Jail Time For The Quaids

    ​Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are big old troublemakers who finally had to face three hours in the clink. They had allegedly skipped out on their bill at a California inn. Then they brazenly missed court dates related to that case. And when they finally appeared in court, they flashed Rand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Thu Tran Gets Set to Bring Her Food Party Back to Your Television Set

    Photo courtesy of IFCThu Tran, hostess with the mostess.​ On April 27, the IFC Channel will roll out the second season of Thu Tran's Food Party. Simply put, Food Party is a collection of 20 15-minute episodes dedicated to the cooking adventures of Tran and a cast of puppets. But beyond that de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Lily Tomlin on Producing Leslie Jordan, Playing Staten Island

    ​If Lily Tomlin's beloved characters aged at all, Edith Ann, the precocious 5-year-old, might just fit in that oversize rocking chair. Though Tomlin's personifications haven't changed, the world they live in certainly has in the four decades she's been performing. This Saturday, April 17, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    TV Creatives Hungry for Emmy Respect Disrupt, Ruin Image of Twitter

    ​What kind of people use Twitter? Horrible celebrities, political obsessives -- and, it now appears, people who actually care that the Emmys changed their broadcast so that eight of the awards will not be presented live. The affected categories are (deep breath) best drama-series writing, bes ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2009

    HOUSE RULES

    When reality TV becomes too real

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Don't Embrace Your Gay Kids! Just Turn Them Straight!

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Please, Lord, Let the New Season of Flight of the Conchords Be Good

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    New Bravo Reality Show About Fag Hags!

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Cooking with Stephanie Izard

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    Ted Allen's New Show, Celery, and why Anthony Bourdain won't Guest Star

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Clip Job: Steve Allen on Jack O'Brian

    That's the message of some twisted group called the International Healing Foundation, which just sent out the attached press release in the wake of the TV movie Prayers for Bobby, in which a mother realizes the church shouldn't judge gays, especially since that kind of oppression helped drive her ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2008

    HOTTER THAN HELL

    An on-screen KISS that rocks

  • News

    August 14, 2007

    Hot Ghetto BET

    Does a black television network have a responsibility to do better?

  • News

    August 7, 2007

    A Man for the (Stone) Ages

    Nick the Caveman, direct from Union Square

  • Screens

    April 18, 2006

    Girls vs. Boys

    Two gender-specific cable networks undergo extreme hormone therapy

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2006

    Simon Cowell Owns the Universe

    Two gender-specific cable networks undergo extreme hormone therapy

  • Dance

    September 6, 2005

    Dance

    Two gender-specific cable networks undergo extreme hormone therapy

  • Theater

    August 23, 2005

    Fall Theater Preview

    Two gender-specific cable networks undergo extreme hormone therapy

  • Screens

    August 23, 2005

    Pilot Trouble

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Screens

    May 17, 2005

    The Other Woman in the Scott Peterson Drama Rehabs Her Rep

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Screens

    April 19, 2005

    Whole Lotta Dads: Paternal Overkill on Fox's Sunday Night

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Screens

    March 22, 2005

    screens

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Art

    October 19, 2004

    That Shrinking Feeling: A New Show About an M.D. in Distress

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Art

    September 7, 2004

    Remote Patrol

    A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

  • Art

    June 1, 2004

    The Parent Trap

    In two new summer series, girls just wanna have fun . . . and blowjobs . . . and babies?

  • Art

    September 16, 2003

    Our Way to Fall

    Are You There, God? It's Me, TV Critic

  • Art

    August 19, 2003

    Rich Kid, Poor Kid

    The O.C. Fills a Vacancy at the Hotel California; Sucking Up the '70s

  • Art

    June 24, 2003

    Don't Lick His Queen

    The Lactose-Intolerant Detective; Trio's Honky-Tonk Blues

  • Art

    May 13, 2003

    Triumph of the Wills

    Devilish Biopics; Buffy Puts a Stake in It

  • Film

    August 20, 2002
  • News

    August 18, 1998

    Ghosts 2, Yankees 1

    The '98 Yankees' Place in the Pantheon

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