Nice Girls Talk

My column is a day late and it’s not because I didn’t have anything to write about, it’s because there’s so much to write about that I haven’t had time to cram it all in under deadline! Trying to keep up with Fox’s Dollhouse rollout has my head spinning. I was meant to have posted an article about the conference …

Normally, I’m all for innovative TV watching, which should explain why I watch so much each year, but there’s been one example of “new” viewing that fell flat. NBC chose to air Monday’s Chuck in 3-D. Normally, I’d be all about the spy world being forced at me more than is normal, but the truth is that I didn’t enjoy …

I DVR’d the Super Bowl so I could fast forward the game and just watch the commercials since my team wasn’t playing. (I know, as if the Chiefs even had a shot this year.) Except that when I did turn on the game about 15 minutes in, there was enough excitement that I had to rewind to the beginning and …

Yesterday morning I sat in my room to watch Trust Me‘s premiere episode. I enjoy basic cable shows on occasion (I’m a pretty causal USA viewer, but Mad Men has me), but I came away at the end of the episode wondering if something had happened to the FCC that they decided two small pieces were fine for broadcast. As …

I remember most of the Thursday nights in the ’80s and ’90s belonging to NBC. With shows like The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, and Friends dominating the ratings, it seemed like NBC was the only network on the air on Thursdays. Then came the ’00s and CBS made a play for dominance with CSI and Survivor. As the last of the …

Had anyone told me three years ago that I’d have fallen for a trio of shows about vampires, I’d had laughed in their face and scoffed. However, it is now a fact that now I’ve worked my way through most of the recent television shows on vampires. As it stands now, I’m twenty-eight episodes away from finishing Buffy the Vampire …

When the networks started making noise about “52-week seasons” and “rerun-free scheduling” a couple of years ago, I thought that sounded great. No more 3-month hiatus during summer. No more endless stretch of reruns in December and January. Now that the networks are putting those plans into practice, is it such a great idea? Yes and no. The Good: The …

You heard me gush about The Beast on our radio broadcast yesterday. I recommended this show because I liked it, and I still like it, even after watching it again last night. I love Patrick Swayze in this role. He’s tough and troubled, and a damn good FBI agent. Travis Fimmell shines as Ellis Dove. I just can’t say enough …

While sitting in the Fox TCA presentation, an executive from FX started to talk about the state of Cable Ratings and why the current Neilsen system doesn’t work with the way in which Cable operates. The point, as I’m sure that everyone is aware of, is that Neilsen doesn’t have a proper means to look at the total views of …

In this day and age where every aspect of a celebrity’s life is under constant surveillance and photos of celebs at the gas station are considered news, it’s shocking when something as big as a celeb wedding goes undetected. For 10 days. And they play siblings on TV. And yet, Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter did just that, …