This is my way of pushing the shows that I think aren't getting enough right now. Play along with me!

If you like Fox's House, M.D., you should like CBS's SharkBoth shows have sourpuss roguish faulty lead characters that are glib and nearly always right in the end. The difference of course is instead of medicine, Shark deals in Law. Still, there's ( Read more... )

There is a big discussion over at Black Rock. The eyeball must be in a tizzy because right now, their Big Money news anchor, Katie Couric, is in freefall ratings mode, lower than the lowest Dan Rather ever had and even Bob Schieffer looks reasonable by comparison! According to Nielsen, in Los Angeles, this week, Katie finished SEVENTH. Besides the ( Read more... )

The profit margin between what a network can make for airing any telecast and the cost of producing the program has shrunk tremendously over the past ten to twenty years. But this was due to the splintering of the audience: the fact that there are now five broadcast networks and more and more of the country has cable and satellite television, ( Read more... )

ABC's "Ugly Betty" is another program taken from a successful show that aired elsewhere... in this case a telenovela from Mexico. Now, if you know anything about telenovelas, it's that they are basically night time soap operas. They typically are "limited run" series, unlike our daytime soaps, and they play out their stories over a season, before ( Read more... )

It was inevitable that when ABC came up with the J.J. Abrams mystery smash, "Lost," that every other network would want something like it. Here now are the reports.

NBC's "Heroes." Far and away the best of the bunch, and if you aren't watching this, you are missing the show of the season. Personally, I equate this with the first year of "Lost," ( Read more... )

In case you were wondering what happened to me this week, I wanted to give the new programs a couple of episodes before I passed judgment on them. So, let me begin with the most anticipated program of the season, NBC's "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip."Now, to be perfectly honest, hype isn't a good thing when it comes to a new television series. The ( Read more... )

ABC's "Men In Trees" has a lot working against it right away. It is clearly an affected "fish out of water" tale, all about a Relationship Author who sits on her bed with a laptop and writes prose based on her experiences with love. It's no surprise that one of the writers from HBO's "Sex And The City" is involved in this program. This New York ( Read more... )

Rosie ( Read more... )

Ok. Today's the big, big day. Rosie O'Donnell joins the cast of ABC's "The View". I'm taping that, so please... nobody give away the train wreck!

And Katie Couric grabs the anchor chair @ The CBS Evening News. Considering we've had a summerful of promotion of both of these events, I'm very safe in saying neither one of these things could live up ( Read more... )

Everyone I know and a lot of people I don't know have commented on the death of Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, which, with the time difference, happened about twenty-one hours ago in Australia. Now, I feel that any accidental death is certainly a sad thing... but think about it. This guy was world famous for doing something he enjoyed ( Read more... )