Category Archives: network
Fox, I’m calling you out!…
Did you ever have one of those dreams that’s so vivid, you’re convinced you’re awake and it’s real – Then an event in the dream wakes you up with start…and you realize it was all just a ghastly illusion? I’m … Continue reading
Jessica Simpson….Live??
After her recent efforts to help the nation become sufficiently inebriated to endure her singing – if not the mere fact of her unbidden existence – Jessica Simpson’s latest musical pop-up book, a loose assemblage of atonal discord known to … Continue reading
In a World…without Don
This business is suffused with a worrying number of people who could be beamed-up by the Klingons tomorrow, and no-one would notice the loss. Don LaFontaine was not one of them. The name may be new to you but I … Continue reading
Jerry’s Annual Miracle
Well, I hope you all had a joyful, barbecue-enhanced Labor Day? Did anyone catch Jerry Lewis performing his annual feats for Jerry’s Kids? It was remarkable. No….More than that. In this economy it was little short of miraculous! This year, … Continue reading
This Man Should Run NBC !
In an interview that appears today on Forbes.com, ten-time Emmy Award-winner Steven Bochco becomes the latest witness to Network greed. He’s decided to take his new drama series, “Raising the Bar,” to the cable station TNT, instead of to one … Continue reading
There is no Strength in Duality
Times are hard. With foreclosures at an all time high and gas scouting the suburbs of $5 a pint, people are not spending so much on entertainment. They want to keep the roof in place and the lights on – … Continue reading
MTV Scrapes the Barrel….Again
In what may be their dumbest, most dangerous and calculated attempt to boost their ratings to the dizzying heights of double figures, MTV is now casting a new “Reality” show where impressionable teens will be required to suffer borderline-anorexia in … Continue reading
Oscar doesn’t wear a Sombrero !
General Motors announced yesterday that it’s dropping the Oscar and Emmy ad campaigns that have been a fixture of those ceremonies for over ten years. Personally, I couldn’t be happier. The Oscars are a glittering celebration of a uniquely American … Continue reading
A Banquet of Banality…
Just in case you were under the quite understandable impression that “Reality” shows couldn’t get any dumber or their creators more desperate, our friends at The Food Network would like to prove you wrong. The formerly respectable channel has decided … Continue reading
Bravo is not the word I’d use…
Clearly as short of ideas as most of its current slate is of viewers, Bravo is now trying to persuade the few brave souls who still watch Project Runway to throw ‘viewing parties.’ The idea is that fans of the … Continue reading
