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I've always loved the idea of a TV show rebooting from scratch. i was really excited about that aborted plan for the Newsradio ensemble to become a completely different workplace. I was thrilled when Buffy went to college. I seem to be the only fan of middle-era ER, when everyone was irascible, a corporate sellout and/or one-armed.
In the aftermath of 'Mad Men,' I've been drowning my sorrows in 'Dexter,' which continues to rock with furious vengeance.
To quote Whedon's favorite musical creator, I'm sorry/grateful that 'Dollhouse' was canceled.
Here's a clip I remember from when I was a kid -- not one from 'Sesame Street' itself but from the equally wonderful 'The Electric Company.'
John Leonard died a year ago, after nearly a quarter century as 'New York' Magazine's television critic.
My essay denouncing 'Cougar Town' (and placing the sitcom in the historical context of television cougardom) is in the current print issue of 'New York.'
Late-seventies television was, with a few exceptions, a wasteland for teen girls.
While surfing around to determine whether Flo "Kiss My Grits" Castleberry did in fact qualify as a cougar (long story, next week's essay), I came across this list on the blog TVMunchies: the Twelve Grossest TV Characters Who Get Laid...
Early this fall, I'd watched the first few episodes of 'Bored to Death' in a state of mild twitchiness, griping that I wanted to like it but didn't.
Tonight's episode of 'Dollhouse,' "Belonging," blew me away.
I'm not saying 'Mad Men' is flawless, but a panicky jump-the-shark reflex is a reliable phenomenon among audiences during the third season.
Maybe I'm still a little shook up from our long national silver-balloon nightmare yesterday, but I got PTSD-ish flashbacks re-watching this excerpt from The Day After, the Very Scary and Important Television Event of 1983.
My friend Misha just IM'd me with a different comparison for 'HIMYM': It's the new 'Lost,' according to the excellent James Poniewozik of 'Time.'
Even for fans like me, 'How I Met Your Mother' has always felt like a clear update of 'Friends': You've got your Manhattan hangout, your friends from college, two geek males plus one womanizer, and the unsettling feeling that all that warm likability could curdle with a few bad episodes.
I sit next to a writer named Adam Sternbergh and this writer, an otherwise decent Canadian type, will not stop talking about Cougartown. COUGARTOWN
When I originally watched 'Thirtysomething,' I glossed right over the themes about stay-at-home moms, marital stress, the ad biz, etc. No, I was about to graduate from college, so I consumed the show instead as one massive tone poem about the lives of Melissa and Ellyn, the single chicks in the ensemble.
I still love 'SCTV,' but rewatching those skits, many seem oddly airless, parodying things about TV that aren't even around anymore.
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