The Newsroom has given me a new disease
I am experiencing a condition I just invented called “viewership schizophrenia” when it comes to The Newsroom. The symptoms: I’m fully aware that it’s fairly terrible, and yet I’m still kind of...
View ArticleOlympics? When did those start? Emerging from the Television Critics...
TCA TLC: Random thoughts at the conclusion of the Summer 2012 Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. See if you can spot me in the scrums pictured above with Russell Brand of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dexter, episode 1, season 7. How does Dexter Morgan spell relief?
Relief. That’s what Dexter Morgan was feeling. He closed his eyes. He exhaled. He was relieved. That sounds bizarre. But I’m sure of it. That’s how the first episode of the seventh season of Dexter...
View ArticleIf the F-bomb “Fitz,” say it; Call Me Fitz swears it’s the new Trailer Park Boys
Call Me Fitz continues to try to top Trailer Park Boys for rapid-fire usage of foul language. In a comedic way, of course. What is it about the East Coast? Pushing the F-bombs-per-minute meter into...
View ArticleFarewell to heroes: Dexter season-seven finale
Dexter has become a Bonnie and Clyde story. This isn’t so much a lonely tale any more. It’s a bizarre partnership of self-preservation that watchers of this series in its earliest years never could...
View ArticleSean Cullen of Rocket Monkeys says today’s cartoons can’t simply “ape” the past
You can’t have a cartoonish attitude toward cartoons any more. They still can be funny. For example, that’s the point of Rocket Monkeys, a new Canadian animated series that debuts Thursday, Jan. 10 on...
View ArticleMichael Gross brings “ageless” quality to Jason Priestley’s Call Me Fitz
The first thing you’ll notice when you see Michael Gross in Call Me Fitz is, well, he looks great. Gross, of course, is best known for his role as Steven Keaton, the father on Family Ties back in the...
View ArticleAziz Ansari gets Seduced and Abandoned in Bunks; TV must-sees for the week
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Oct. 27: 1 Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive Debut: A standup special filmed in Philadelphia starring Aziz Ansari, who is best known to TV audiences for his role as...
View ArticleMichael Buble gets Played with 7 Days in Hell; TV’s must-sees for the week
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Dec. 15 1) Masters of Sex First-season finale: In an episode titled Elvis Has Left The Building, a nervous and tense Dr. Masters (Michael Sheen) doesn’t get...
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