When I was watching the Bones episode "The Man in the Wall" I suddenly realized that the exterior of the hip hop club was very very familiar. There may have been a yelp of excitement when I realized that the warehouse on Bones is the very same warehouse that Spike, Drusilla and Angel (played by David Boreanaz who is also, coincidentally, one of the ( Read more... )

The news that I've been dreading has finally been announced, it looks like Arrested Development has been canceled. Technically, it and Kitchen Confidential have been dropped from Fox's line-up until December 5th. Also, Arrested Development's show order has been reduced from 22 episodes to 13. Unfortunately it doesn't look like Arrested Development ( Read more... )

Last week I was reminded of television's usefulness beyond being the source of captivating stories, interesting characters and sensational trash, the latter of which I frequently pretend doesn't exist. TV is also great in times of grief and sadness.

My grandpa, dad and I watched the last couple of innings of a World Series game a few hours after ( Read more... )

I've never been that hip about music. I was the kid who grew up in Kingston and didn't know who the Tragically Hip were when I started high school (the Tragically Hip are Kingstonians like me). I used to only find out about a hip, cool or ground-breaking musician/band if one of my friends clued me in. But now I can actually pretend that I'm tuned ( Read more... )

I have an slightly embarrassing and unhip confession to make: I love sitcoms. Even though I like the cool and funny single camera comedies like Scrubs and Arrested Development, I also enjoy a good sitcom. I do need to emphasize that last part: I enjoy a good sitcom. So I'm not talking about According to Jim, and its clone shows. I like that for ( Read more... )

How I know that I'm obsessed with television ( Read more... )