Category Archives: reality
Wanted: Flower Power!
Some days are good. Some are not so good. And some bring you news that just makes it clear it wasn’t worth chewing through the straps. This is one of those days. According to our friends at The Hollywood Reporter, … Continue reading
Ellen Enters The Battle
After a long and atypical silence from a woman not known for such calm introspection, Ellen has released a PSA on her talk-show website, urging California-based voters to oppose Prop 8, the ballot initiative that seeks to revoke gay people’s … Continue reading
Is This Really Our Future??
Following on from yesterday’s story about the risk of an Actors strike, today brings news of yet another nail in the coffin of the craft as whole. As both of my regular readers know, I hate ‘reality’ television with a … Continue reading
Two Strikes and We’re Dead…
The second season of Pushing Daisies, ABC’s most visible wound from the Writers’ Strike, finally bowed last night. If you like it I hope you had a DVR handy – its sojourn on your screen may be painfully brief. The … 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
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
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
The Reality is….Horrific!
In news that hits rather too close to home for my taste, and which may also be a harbinger of oncoming doom for the US market, the news is coming in that the British commercial broadcast network, ITV, might be … Continue reading
I Think I’ll Move into a Cave…
Enjoy your Thursday, folks – For those of us who find sports less than irresistibly transfixing, this is the last day of freedom we’ll see for two weeks. NBC’s coverage of the Olympics begins tomorrow and will continue at levels … Continue reading
