Usually, the season finales of television shows annoy me ( Read more... )

I know a lot of people on my flist watch and love Criminal Minds but by the time people started talking about, it was three seasons in and I just didn't feel like jumping into the middle of a show.

And the chances of my finding time to watch the previous seasons are right up there with pigs with wings.

But I saw that there was a spin-off, Suspect ( Read more... )

 I posted this one over at my regular website, then realized it might be of some interest to the flist ( Read more... )

From a news article following Cannell's untimely death:

Cannell, who was born Feb. 5, 1941 in Los Angeles, always loved writing and dreamed of becoming a novelist as a teenager - even when he was flunking English in high school.

A turning point came for him while he was a student at the University of Oregon in the early '60s and a creative ( Read more... )

I wonder, if we put cats in charge of fall television, what would it be like? *

Probably full of birds darting across the screen and fish swimming, I suppose.

I do sometimes think that would be less annoying than some of the new fall shows. :)

I've found one gem, Detroit 1-8-7, among all the new shows, thought No Ordinary Family and Raising Hope had ( Read more... )

 I decided to try out this show because the casting of Chris Noth as a sleazy but charming politician held some promise. And I really liked the premise--the wife of a disgraced politician has to rebuild her life ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to an all-day writing workshop given by Michael Hauge.

There was a ton of great, crunchy writing stuff at the workshop. I was especially lucky to get a change to talk with Mr. Hauge after the session and after he got over the shock of my fantasy world (wait, what?? You have Romans and Vikings in North America? And explosions? And ( Read more... )

So, this week's Mad Men was one of the shows that was about one thing on the surface and about entirely another thing under the surface.

Don and Betty take a trip to Rome to see Conrad Hilton. Pete spends the week alone while his wife is at the beach and encounters a nanny who lives in his building.

Except it's not really about that. It's about Don ( Read more... )

I'm trying to avoid specific spoilers here ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )