Well, that’s disappointing. It was just last week when I said that ‘Chuck’ appeared to set up an interesting storyline that could be fun to watch develop over the course of the season. So much for that. Although this past Friday’s...
Writing about NBC’s new fairy tale police procedural ‘Grimm’ presents a puzzling challenge. How do you describe what happens in an episode without making it sound like the dumbest thing ever? Because it’s not, really. It’s not the...
The final season of ‘Chuck’ is off to a pretty solid start so far. The second episode features the return of some much-loved supporting characters, and also introduces a new storyline that should be interesting to watch the show p...
I used to poke fun at people who watch a lot of Reality TV, but then I took stock of myself and realized that I was the pot and they were the kettle. I’m so ashamed.
Team Bartowski is back in action for one last go-round. After a few previous false-stops and last-minute restarts, NBC has officially declared that Season 5 will be the last for ‘Chuck’. Given how uncertain and unstructured the pa...
What’s going on between NBC and ABC this season? First, both networks premiere new dramas set in the swinging 1960s – ‘The Playboy Club’ and ‘Pan Am‘ respectively. The advantage goes to ABC on that one. Now, both networks also hav...
Between school, my normal daily work, my gig at the Michigan Renaissance Festival, a road trip from Detroit to Mississippi and back last weekend, and prepping for a road trip from Montana back to Detroit this weekend, I’ve been ha...
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 ‘Prime Suspect’ for a few...
Finally, after a lackluster start, the fall TV season has at least one new show that seems fully formed and raring to go right out of the gate. I was beginning to lose hope. Even though detective series are a dime a dozen all over...
NBC has finally settled on a replacement for Steve Carell on the next season of ‘The Office’. Stepping in as Dunder Mifflin’s newest boss will be… James Spader. I think this is the right decision. Don’t you?
Struggling fourth-place network NBC has made a bold, perhaps even reckless decision regarding the upcoming fall TV schedule. The network is going to try to make money by programming shows that people might actually want to watch, ...
The TV season may have just ended, but are you missing ‘Community’ already? I sure am. While we wait the next few painful months for Season 3 to begin, you can get a ‘Community’ fix right now by heading over to The A.V. Club and r...
