Category: TV

I was hoping I was going to like Rob Lowe’s new show, The Lyon’s Den. For entirely baseless reasons, I was hoping it would be as smartly written as West Wing. But, it’s just a silly soap opera. Are there any good new shows this season?

Wow! The US version of Coupling is horrible. H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E.!!!!! I knew it would suck, but I had no idea it could possibly be so stilted and unfunny. The weird thing is, most of the script seems to be taken straight from the UK version. Same jokes, but really just way less funny than the original.…

There’s a crispness in the air (more or less) and new shows on TV (more or less). Yea! I watched the series premier of Jake 2.0 tonight. Maybe it’s just that I’m a sucker for Nano Tech, but I have to say it didn’t suck. It wasn’t the greatest thing ever. The whole he loves…

Why is MTV running a Spider-man cartoon? I know they stopped playing music videos a long time ago, but I thought their programming was at least about a particular life style. Spider-man doesn’t make any sense at all. But then Five gay guys for a straight guy or whatever it’s called doesn’t seem like a…

So, do you have Showtime? If you do, you should definitely set your TiVo to grab “Free for All.” It’s animated, sort of in the style of “Family Guy” and funny as hell. Seriously, there are like two to twenty massive belly laughs an episode. Absolutely a show to watch out for.

So, have you seen the ad for Crest Night Effects with about 10 digital clones of William Shatner dressed in silver lame’ doing the river dance? Greatest. F’n. Ad. EVER! Man, he is just really OK with being a complete parody of himself. You have to respect that.

And as long as I’m shilling for Showtime tonight: If you get a chance, you should check out the show “Out of Order.” It stars Eric Stoltz and a bunch of other people you’ve probably heard of. It’s a pretty solid show. I think it’s a series. The premier felt way more cinematic than that…

Somehow, I managed to get through more than 33 years of my life without ever seeing the play, Our Town. I haven’t seen a lot of plays, so it’s probably not too surprising. Except that, Our Town seems to be part of pop culture. In TV shows or movies, if the high school is putting…

After watching for all of 30 seconds, I can already see that the TV show Black Sash is going to be spectacularly bad. I’m going to LOVE! WATCHING! THIS! SHOW!

Children of Dune starts on the SciFi channel on Sunday. I’ve always been just the hugest Dune fan. I liked the Lynch film (even though you really need to have read the books to get it, and if you read the books, then you’ll also get how very, very wrong it was). I LOVED the…