HBO Cancels Two Great Comedies
In a very surprising development (to me, anyway), HBO announced this week that two of my favorite comedies on the network, ‘Hung’ and ‘Bored to Death’, have been officially canceled. ‘How to Make It i...
In a very surprising development (to me, anyway), HBO announced this week that two of my favorite comedies on the network, ‘Hung’ and ‘Bored to Death’, have been officially canceled. ‘How to Make It i...
Well, that didn’t take long. The fall TV season has claimed its first casualty. After just three episodes, NBC has pulled ‘The Playboy Club’ off the air. The 1960s-set drama will be replaced by repeats of ‘...
‘The Chicago Code’ is one of the most painful cancellations of this now-ending TV season. Although the show never quite reinvented the police drama, as some of the early promotion may have promised, it was a very solid...
Now that it’s all over and done with and officially canceled, we should probably know what the event at the heart of ‘The Event’ actually was, shouldn’t we? Doesn’t that seem like a reasonable expecta...
With the 2010-2011 TV season now drawing to a close, the major networks have held their Upfront presentations in which they preview their fall schedules for advertisers. This is an important time for “bubble” shows (TV...
Fans of Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ series have been asking for a big screen adaptation for years. Universal Studios officially announced a unique plan for the project back in November, but just when fans finally...
We’ve lost another good show. Effective with tonight’s season finale, the FX boxing drama ‘Lights Out’ is down for the count.
It’s a sad fact of life that, far too often, excellent TV shows get yanked off the air while terrible ones linger on for years. The 2010 season hasn’t been particularly good in terms of newly-premiering shows. One of t...
Dammit. The fall TV season has claimed its first casualty, and of course it’s a show I liked. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to watch the pilot episode of Fox’s new con man drama ‘Lone Star’ unt...
The studio bosses at Buena Vista announced back in March that they were pulling the plug on the long-running ‘At the Movies’ review program originally made famous by Siskel and Ebert, later sullied by “the two Be...
ABC has announced its fall season. Among the notable news (meaning, the status of shows I currently watch), ‘FlashForward’ has been canceled. Meanwhile, ‘V’ has been renewed, but will appear as a mid-season...