question of the day: Do you miss TV theme songs?

It’s been happening for years: theme songs have been disappearing from TV shows. Now, Variety is reporting that the Emmys will no longer honor theme music, because there’s just not enough of it anymore: The Academy announced Monday that the main title theme category would be eliminated effective next year, and replaced by the new … more…

question of the day: Why do the Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody rants strike such a nerve with us?

BBC News Magazine this week ran a thoughtful, if mystified essay on the popularity of those YouTube Hitler rants (perhaps to coincide with this month’s 65th anniversary of Hitler’s death and the end of the Nazi regime). You know the ones: they borrow a scene from the amazing but serious-as-a-heart-attack German film Downfall, about Hitler’s … more…

question of the day: What should Conan O’Brien do next?

We haven’t heard much from Conan O’Brien since NBC unceremoniously booted him from The Tonight Show after Jay Leno’s experiment with primetime chat flopped. But now, with the networks in the final throes of lining up next fall’s programming schedules, he’s back in the spotlight, if only a small one. The USA Today blog Technology … more…