question of the day: What is the greatest aspect of Fox’s legacy, 25 years in?
The X-Files? In Living Color? The Simpsons? Firefly? Something else?
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question of the day: How can ‘NCIS,’ the most-watched, most-loved TV show in America, be so absent from online fandom?
Apparently NCIS, the military cop procedural, is the most watched scripted show in the United States. I would not have guessed this if given a million guesses.
journalmalism has its price: young Americans now think torture is okay (but only when Americans do it)
A new study by the Red Cross on American attitudes toward torture is highly revealing, hugely terrifying, and very, very depressing…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: geek fave Mark Sheppard to appear in Season Six
The Firefly and Battlestar Galactica actor will appear in the season premiere as ‘Canton Everett Delaware III.’ Let the speculation upon the whatsitness of that impressive moniker commence…
question of the day: Does it help or hurt when real-life cops connect the Times Square would-be bombing to Jack Bauer and ‘24’?
It was bad enough when politicians and pundits hellbent on turning the United States into some sort of Orwellian nightmare of vanished civil liberties, all in the name of keeping us “safe,” invoked the right-wing wet dream that is Jack Bauer and 24. From high-tech toys that spy on anybody to the right to torture … more…
question of the day: What May sweeps twist would you most like to see?
It’s May sweeps time, the weeks during which the American TV networks set their ad rates for the coming year. Which means that our favorite shows are jammed packs with as much excitement and as many twists as possible, in order to entice as many people as possible to watch: the higher the networks can … more…
Jon Stewart loves Barbie; should government support the arts?; learning Na’vi; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
‘Lost’ blogging: “Sundown”
(previous: “Lighthouse”) There’s no way to “review” or “analyze” or even “discuss” this show on an episode-by-episode basis — it’s more like you just have to react and try to guess what the hell is going on. So I’m not even gonna try to impose any sense or reason upon it: I’m just going to … more…
trailer break: ‘District 13: Ultimatum’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I found the original District 13 to be a lot of awesome style and very little substance of interest, and this looks like more of the same. Except with a stolen nuclear bomb thrown in, perhaps we can expect the French equivalent of Jack Bauer to be … more…
question of the day: How will the change represented by the incoming Obama administration be reflected in movies, TV, and other pop culture?
At noon today on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Not to give the man too much power, but… How will the change represented by the incoming Obama administration be reflected in movies, TV, and other pop culture? … more…
