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This is what I see when I tune to channel 7 on my expensive Cablevision cable TV service: Fuck Cablevision. Fuck ABC. (Oh, and can I just note that ABC and Disney — which told me it didn’t like my “tone” when I complained about how it treats film critics — are the same company?) … more…
As I explained here and here, Cablevision — the only cable provider in the Bronx, where I live, and the company I pay a ridiculous amount of money to each month for TV and Internet access — and ABC have been engaging in juvenile dick measuring, and now whatever talks they’ve been having have broken … more…
ABC and Cablevision had better resolve their differences before Sunday, or else I’m not gonna be able to watch the Oscars (because ABC will pull their signal from Cablevision). And then I’m gonna be really mad.
Came home this afternoon from a non-movie-related client meeting, flipped on the TV as background for the next few hours’ writing, and discovered an announcement from my cable company, Cablevision: • ABC is threatening to pull the plug on WABC-7 unless Cablevision and its customers agree to pay millions of dollars in new fees. Cablevision … more…
Aviation! Romance! Adventure! Leather jackets! Alcoholism as an adorable character flaw! Fun for all! It lasted only one season on ABC in 1982-3, but Tales of the Gold Monkey has stuck in my brain as one of the predominant inspirations of the television of my childhood. Because it was a cash-in of the box office … more…
Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow proposed that we need to find a new word for “something that is both catastrophically important to the future of the United States and totally freaking boring,” something that “speaks directly to whether government is capable of actually governing.” She was referring to the filibuster, which is … more…
Damn, was I pissed when I got to the end of last week’s episode of FlashForward and saw the little notice ABC snuck in there that the show wouldn’t be returning till March. (Sci Fi Wire is mad as hell, too.) I had been figuring, all during the episode, that they were gonna hit us … more…
[spoilers] Man, I kinda knew that ABC’s updating of V — a dubious idea if ever there was one, except that anyone who scoffs at anyone who wants to update old sci-fi right now will get the glory that is Battlestar Galactica thrown in their face — was gonna suck. But I never imagined it … more…
Okay, I know it’s gonna be stupid, and I know ABC is gonna jerk us around by airing the first four episodes and then pulling the show till next year, but I can’t help it — I’m psyched. Spectacular in some ways, but that is so not New York City. Hmm, could it be, I … more…
Lisa de Moraes in The Washington Post takes on ABC over an announced scheme to promote the about-to-debut series reboot of V: The next time ABC and its parent company Disney start thumping their chests about how they’re “going green,” please spit in their eye and remind them of Monday’s announcement that the broadcast network … more…
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