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Bristol Palin To Join Dancing With The Stars
On August 26, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Bristol Palin is joining the Season 11 cast of Dancing With the Stars: the online news branch of E! Network, in an August 26th exclusive, confirmed that the oldest daughter of Alaska’s First Family will be available to ring in the elimination show’s new season on September 20th. For its part, ABC won’t officially comment [...]
Christiane Amanpour’s First “This Week”
On August 2, 2010 at 8:34 am
Via the Huffington Post: ABC, on Sunday (August 1st), took the plunge into the depths of advocacy journalism with liberal media darling Christiane Amanpour: The Iranian-born URI graduate, raked over the coals for her three-part documentary “God’s Warriors,” commenced permanent “This Week” fill in for Jake Tapper. Guests for her first half hour included token [...]
What Else Can Hollyweird Give The Axe?
On June 20, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Yes, it’s time again to play everyone’s favorite game show and pick from the – albeit promising – ratings bombs of summer. One series comes to mind; unfortunately, it’s one I’ve been watching since it premiered. I’m not pleased. To think I was just beginning to get into Happy Town. If some of you don’t [...]
Choreographed Soldiering
On May 24, 2010 at 6:43 am
Politics is like a dance on the national stage. So said 80′s synthpop band Re-Flex, anyway. But I don’t think they expected “The Worm” to be any more than a slinky series of movements – fit for a Dancing with the Stars prequel hosted by Paula Abdul. I don’t know what our Ladies’ Room compatriots [...]
Doctors Perform C-Section To Find…No Baby?
On April 2, 2010 at 9:49 pm
So if it takes two years to reprimand the medical community NOW just imagine how complicated its about to get. Two doctors are in deep water (pun not intended) after performing a cesarean section on a woman who evidently was not pregnant, despite appearing to be so and demanding an emergency c-section. Now we’ve all [...]
A VISIT FROM THE GHOST OF OPRAH’S FAVORITE THINGS PAST
On December 2, 2009 at 6:14 amFirst she chose the Democratic Presidential nominee. Then she informed the world that her show was coming to an end in 2011. Now she has done the unthinkable – she canceled her annual most-watched “Favorite Things” show! What a Scrooge! I can’t believe Oprah passed on the opportunity to place tickets to her victim-porn movie [...]
The 2009 CMA Awards will rock… but will they country?
On November 11, 2009 at 10:24 am
The CMA Awards (Country Music Association), hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, will be broadcast live from Nashville on Wednesday night (at 8:00 PM ET on ABC), but there won’t be much authentic Nashville in it. Over the past decade (I still blame Shania Twain) as “country” music has sold more CDs and downloads, [...]
New ‘Alien Option’ for Healthcare
On November 9, 2009 at 9:53 am
Aliens are among us, and they have brought universal health care. In “V,” strange Visitors from another planet drop in to visit earth without warning, causing panic worldwide until the aliens’ charismatic leader broadcasts a well-written, brilliantly delivered speech on the giant LCD screen built into the bottom of their city-wide space ships. In soothing, [...]
V for Verisimilitude
On November 5, 2009 at 11:33 am
ABC’s remake of the 1983 miniseries “V” debuted Wednesday night. It’s good. Only one episode in it’s already better than anything ABC has to offer, cleverly avoiding the traps a first act tends to set: overlong character development acted at mediocre caliber, slow reveals, laying an obvious groundwork for future plot twists. V bypasses all [...]
Move Over, Charlie Brown
On October 6, 2009 at 8:45 am
Children are fickle and easily amused things. A dime and two fingers set apart an inch can grab a pair’s attention for hours; an Xbox, the assiduities of only one. Regardless of whether or not you have children of your own, memories of your youth are a witch’s brew of hyperactivity and laziness; hyperfocused attention [...]
Barack’s Anatomy
On September 29, 2009 at 12:10 am
Did you see the series pilot of Flashforward? Yes? I did, too. So I’d like you to do something for me . . . imagine you’ve blacked out and are looking not just six months, but six years, into the future: into a Seattle Grace Hospital that has become overrun by rationing, long wait times [...]
Good, Clean Family Comedy?
On at 12:07 am
Two new sitcoms this fall have chosen to set their comedy in a family context. Both shows make some startling assumptions about the state of the family in 2009. The first is “Modern Family” (ABC). This sitcom draws its comedy from the parenting decisions of three couples raising children. The tagline for this show is [...]
The Wrongest Stuff
On September 17, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Every once in a great while, TV produces a show that makes its audience feel like they’ve lived within that show’s confines, illuminating what it’s like to be a cop, doctor, lawyer, and if you reach way back, a fugitive. Three classic examples jump right off the top of my head: Hill Street Blues, ER—the [...]
Charlie Gibson Retires
On September 16, 2009 at 8:13 am
Gibson, who has anchored World News Tonight since 2006, announced plans of retiring in December of this year. Diane Sawyer (his former co-host of Good Morning America) will take his place. An interesting figure, Gibson’s dream to be a news anchor seemed to pause several times before he finally landed the head anchor chair of [...]
When All Humankind Hates You…
On September 9, 2009 at 11:00 am
…your name is Jon Gosselin. This guy is a loser, plain and simple. He, again, is talking trash about his wife of 10 years and mother of his eight children. And why is ABC news doing a special on him? This is insane and these people need to go their ways, do what’s best for [...]
TV Audiences Growing Old
On August 28, 2009 at 10:43 am
Network television audiences are getting older. What does that mean? It means us youth are increasingly watching cable and using the internet for our video needs. The big three networks, ABC, NBC and CBS are all expected to post median ages above 50 this fall. The older crowd.
