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Hate your houseguests?
Over at The Daily Beast, I offer my suggestions for TV-on-DVD viewing during to alleviate stress during the Thanksgiving holiday in a piece entitled "DVD Rentals for Thanksgiving Cranks."
Organizing the weekend into specific time-based sections, I offer some TV-on-DVD ...
Other
Looking to discuss last night's fall finale of ABC's V ("It's Only the Beginning"), written by Cameron Litvack and Angela Russo-Otstot?
Head over to the Los Angeles Times/Show Tracker site where you can read my write-up of last night's episode of V (entitled "V: The way of the gun") and weigh ...
Other
ABC
Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. Just a few headlines to get through today as the Hollywood PR machine begins its annual shutdown for Thanksgiving.
Futon Critic yesterday broke the story that Fringe will go on a seven-week hiatus beginning February 11th in order to ...
Drama
Fringe
Lie To Me
Burn Notice
ABC Family
FOX today announced their midseason plans for 2009-2010, unveiling a lineup that includes giving reincarnation drama Past Life the post-Bones slot on Thursday evenings (current occupant Fringe will be going on a prolonged hiatus for seven weeks), bringing Kitchen Nightmares back (on Friday ...
Drama
Looking for more Mad Men goodness?
I was extremely lucky to have the opportunity to conduct an exclusive interview with Mad Men creator/executive producer Matthew Weiner about the third season finale of the AMC period drama. (Which hopefully you read here.)
Now, two weeks after the season ...
Drama
Mad Men
Matthew Weiner
AMC
Betty White
Jon Hamm
ABC's sci-fi series V wraps up the first part of its first season run tonight at 8 pm ET/PT before it returns with new episodes in March.
I had the chance to watch tonight's episode over the weekend and absolutely loved it. You can head over to the Los Angeles Times/Show Tracker site to read my ...
Other
ABC
Time to go down the yellow brick road again.
Yes, Stateside Life on Mars fans, that day has finally arrived as Acorn Media today releases the complete second season of the original UK drama series Life on Mars on DVD.
Forget about the lackluster (and mercifully short-lived) American version ...
Sci-Fi
Life on Mars
BBC America
Welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing.
USA has renewed dramedy Psych for a fifth season, set air in summer 2010. The series, which is set to become USA's longest running original drama series in production, will air the second half of its fourth season beginning in January. ...
Sci-Fi
Psych
Flash Forward
ABC
Michael Ausiello
Looking to discuss last night's season finale of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and the latest episode of CBS' The Amazing Race?
Head over to the Los Angeles Times/Show Tracker site where you can read my takes on both episodes, including last night's Seinfeld-centric season finale of Curb Your ...
Reality
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Amazing Race
CBS
HBO
Jerry Seinfeld
Good news for Stateside Doctor Who fans.
BBC America has announced that David Tennant's final two Doctor Who specials, Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One and Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two, will premiere during the holiday season, with the first set to air on BBC America on December ...
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who
BBC America
David Tennant
Welcome to your Monday morning television briefing.
Bad news for Tim Riggins fans. Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello is reporting that Friday Night Lights executive producer Jason Katims has confirmed that Taylor Kitsch will "will miss part" of the production of Season Five of Friday ...
Drama
Friday Night Lights
Oprah Winfrey
Alisen Down
Cougar Town
Fringe
Smallville
Oh, Fringe, I've missed you.
Last night's episode of Fringe ("August"), written by J.H. Wyman and Jeff Pinkner and directed by Brad Anderson, was to me the absolute ideal installment of the sci-fi procedural series. Despite being a close-ended plot about the disappearance of a young woman, it ...
Sci-Fi
Fringe
Twentieth Century Fox
Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing.
ABC yesterday announced the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Lost, which will return to the lineup on Tuesday, February 2nd with a two-hour premiere (preceded by a one-hour clip show) before setting into its new timeslot of ...
Drama
Chuck
Trauma
Oprah Winfrey
January Jones
BBC America
NBC Universal
You've been demanding it.
Yes, true believers, Season Three of Chuck finally has a start date.
NBC today announced that Chuck will return on Sunday, January 10th with two back-to-back episodes (comprising an awesome two hour season premiere).
But that's not all. Chuck will then be back the ...
Comedy
Chuck
NBC Universal
Angie Harmon
Brandon Routh
Kristin Kreuk
The final season of Lost finally as a start date.
ABC will launch the sixth (and sadly last) season of Lost on Tuesday, February 2nd at 9 pm ET/PT. in a two-hour season premiere following a one-hour clip show at 8 pm that will get viewers up to speed on the the last five seasons.
Following the ...
Other
ABC
"Welcome back."
No truer words were ever spoken than on this week's episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas ("Culinary Olympics") in which the five remaining chefs faced their toughest challenge--a scaled down mini-version of the famed Bocuse d'Or--before getting cut down to the four chefs who would ...
Reality
Top Chef
Bravo
Las Vegas
Welcome to your Thursday morning television briefing.
Los Angeles Times' Denise Martin explores just how the executive producers of NBC's Parks and Recreation were able to turn their struggling comedy around in its second season to become a critical darling, as she speaks with creators Greg ...
Comedy
Parks and Recreation
Brooke Shields
The Middle
Wondering just what screenwriter Bill Gallagher intended with the ending of AMC's six-hour miniseries The Prisoner, which wrapped its run last night? You've come to the right place.
I caught up with Gallagher a few weeks back when I interviewed him for a piece about The Prisoner and asked him ...
Other
The Prisoner
Over on Twitter this morning, one of the main topics of TV-focused conversation is the dearth of well-crafted and three-dimensional teenage characters on television.
The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan raised an interesting question about why teen characters are often so unlikable, to which I ...
