question of the day: The most-coveted U.S. TV viewers are turning to Univision: will we see more shows with Hispanic appeal on English-language TV?
Will we soon see a primetime English-language telenovela on ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox?
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Max Headroom: The Complete Series (review)
It’s been almost a quarter of a century since this groundbreaking series graced our screens so briefly, but my memories of it have never faded, so great was the impact it had on my nerdy young brain…
question of the day: What about those last images in Lost of the crashed plane on the beach?
Yes, it’s one more Lost post, one more instance of me talking more about a show I said I was done talking about. Hey: it’s my site. I was intrigued this morning to come across a post at the L.A. Times blog Show Tracker about those final shots of the Lost finale. You know, the … more…
because ABC, the bastards, cancelled ‘FlashForward’
I officially give up on the major networks. I officially refuse to get involved with any new series they might want to offer us until at least the second season. It happened last year, with Kings: the only decent new show worth watching, one with a strikingly original concept, one that was about more than … more…
can Twitter predict box office?; reality shows hit a new low; buy your way into X-Men; and 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…
bias update: March 8
obsession: Canadian TV (and film) (because I’m hungry for something new and good) boyfriend: Esai Morales in Caprica (not so much his character, though: he’s sorta sad and scary) psyched: nothing (it feels like we’re in a movie dead zone) girl crush: no one dreading: She’s Out of My League (for perpetuating obnoxious stereotypes) enemy: … more…
question of the day: What did you think of the Oscars?
Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
ABC is back on Cablevision…
…after being out for most of the day on Sunday. Apparently there was some caving on both sides. I’m gonna hang on to those HD rabbit ears I wasted too much time and money on Sunday acquiring and setting up, because this is sure to be but the first of many similar disputes we’ll see … more…
retro trailer: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (1951)
Take a look back at an old trailer… I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Disney movie… or if I have, I have no memory of it whatsoever. The thing is, maybe, that I was a little kid in the dark ages before home video. I would have had to see this in a theater … more…
rabbit ears in 2010
It’s back to the future, I guess: I’m picking up ABC over the air now — not a sentence I would ever have expected to utter in the second decade of the 21st century — so I’ll be able to watch the Oscars tonight (no thanks to the whiny ass babies at ABC and Cablevision). … more…
