Category: TV

SNL was typically unfunny last night, but Queen Latifah was just all kinds of laugh. Who knew? Maybe for next season, SNL should lose all the Groundlings and Second City refugees and send its casting agents down to death row records or something. Well OK, The X Presidents was funny too. Smigel continues to be…

The Bravo channel has been running a Boomtown marathon, so I’ve caught a few episodes. I’d never seen this show before. It seems like a pretty good show. They do a lot of playing around with narrative structure. Telling the story out of order from the perspective of various characters, or running the opening few…

How did a show like She Spies slip under my radar? It sounds wonderfully horrible: “Alias” meets “Austin Powers” by way of “VIP.” Three female ex-cons (all beautiful, of course) work for the government to bring in criminals. Oh, yes. You have to know that I WILL be watching this show tonight.

Holy crap — MC Hammer looks exactly like Jimmie JJ Walker. When did that happen? Yes, it’s true, I’m watching The Surreal Life A show with 7 minor celbrities living together reality TV style. It’s pretty lame. I can’t see myself watching this again.

If you’re in Southern California (or probably anywhere in California), the local PBS stations carry this show California’s Gold. It’s a little goofy, and the host, Huell Howser, just falls all over himself to fawn over the most mundane kinds of things like interestingly colored rocks or poison ivy or whatever. Still, there is something…

So, I thought that Fox’s show, Firefly, started out pretty crappy. Still, I kept watching it because there isn’t much else to watch on Fridays. The past two weeks have been pretty solid. I think it could be a good show — except I’m almost certain it’s going to be canceled. Isn’t that always the…

I’ve been spending the whole evening watching a Dinner for Five marathon on the independent film channel. If you haven’t seen it, Jon Favreau (writer and star of Swingers and Made, etc.) is a host leading a dinner party with 4 other celebrities. It’s surprisingly engaging. Part of that is that they’re entertainers, so they…

I think I may finally have to delete my season pass to Inside The Actors Studio. I mean, when they had Billy Joel on, I raised my eyebrow. When they had Ben Afflek on, I had serious questions. When they had Antonio Banderas on, I was pretty sure they had finally been reduced to blatantly…

Domo Kun is (as near as I can tell), an animated character promoting some Japanese TV station. There is a 100 Meg movie linked off of this page. Now, if somebody’s going to put a 100 meg video up on the web, you have to think it must be spectacular. Otherwise, who’s going to put…

Wow – I saw people talking about how bad Birds of Prey was likely to be, but … Wow! So bad, I don’t know if I’ll be able to resist watching it. Wow!