September 2006
Life in the Kalahari must go on even though there's no word of Shakespeare's death. For the second season of Animal Planet's critter soap opera, it's apparent from the opening credits that there's been loss. We already know that the furry bard is missing after fending off an attack on the pups, but despite two new...
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In the first season of the sitcom based on comedian Chris Rock's childhood, his on-screen alter ego could never get a break. Poor Chris (Tyler James Williams). Being a teenager was hard enough, but when he had to move to a new neighborhood, that meant going to a new school and making new enemies. It didn't...
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First things first: Yes, new Bachelor Lorenzo Borghese is, in fact, a prince. And no, he doesn't have a castle. The "Prince" in front of his name is there because his family tree includes Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese), who was head of the Catholic Church from 1605-21. As Borghese explains it, "The pope at that...
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Well, we finally have the closest thing this season to a new breakout hit: Ladies and gentlemen, meet Betty, who brought more viewers to the 8 p.m. Thursday time period than any scripted ABC show since Matlock in April 1995. Matlock! What Ugly Betty didn't do, though was take a huge bite out of Survivor on...
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It's hard to get a feel for a season of Smallville based on its premiere. Usually, with a summer to plan, the show almost always starts off strong. There's a liberal dipping into the special effects budget, some big drama setting up this year's conflict, etc. Then, suddenly, it's three weeks later and we're enduring a...
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Another jam-packed night on The Office, from Michael's fun jeans to "He loves ketchup" to the really, really gross black light on the bed as the credits rolled. But while Michael, Dwight, Jim, Michael 2.0 Josh, Jan and, uh, "Jane Doe" (Angela, you little tramp you) were all in Philly for a convention, the best action...
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Okay, how disturbing was it to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan back in a hospital bed after he died in the same environment on last season's Grey's Anatomy finale? I'd like to say it was foreshadowing, but inter-network plot lines would be really hard to coordinate. Besides which, Denny was done in by a blood clot, and...
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All of the critics who were disgusted by the idea of Survivor doing a season in which the teams were divided by race were forgetting one key fact: Mark Burnett doesn't stick with anything for very long. On Thursday (Sept. 28), less than three episodes into this latest "social experiment," Survivor reshuffled the teams into...
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Paul Campbell and Taran Killam have got to be happier than anyone alive that The WB no longer exists. Because if it did, they'd still just be two guys who starred in a pilot that didn't make it on the air, not the vanguard of (possibly) a new way of making television. But it doesn't and...
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For all the harping Wednesday on the rules of Dancing with the Stars and the people who broke them in Tuesday's performance show -- Willa, Joey and Mario, for those of you scoring at home -- you'd think that this week's elimination drama, such as it is, would focus on one of them. And if the...
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