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TV, TV: Where Did Our Love Go?
My life has changed quite a bit in the last couple of months. I went from working in a respectable career, earning this remarkable thing called “money”, to being an impoverished student whose primary source of income was the weekly pub quiz. That’s not the only change. Those who follow this blog might have noticed a [...]
Continue reading...Fall Cleaning
29. September 2008 Posted by Marcia
Something terrible has happened. This last week, I discovered that I need to watch less TV. No, I didn’t have some sort of epiphany about how I was wasting my life on the sofa, or decide that turning off the TV would reduce my carbon footprint. I simply ran out of time. Apparently, running two sites [...]
Continue reading...Stunt-Casting Injuries
7. May 2008 Posted by Marcia
When I started this blog, I had two specific goals in mind. The first was to create a powerful army of television-addled zombies who would attack NBC honcho Ben Silverman on command. The second was to be the only entertainment blog in the history of the world to never include the names of any drunken, [...]
Continue reading...The Post-Strike TV Slump
16. April 2008 Posted by Marcia
Something rather unexpected has happened recently. I’m not enjoying TV as much. I’m sure it’s just a phase; you can’t keep a good couch potato down for long. However, as the post-strike episodes begin to trickle onto the airwaves, I find myself with the same response over and over again: yawn. After waiting months for The [...]
Continue reading...When TV Hurts So Good
18. March 2008 Posted by Marcia
I’m a geek. I assume this is common knowledge, but it doesn’t hurt to restate the obvious. I was reminded of my geek-like status this weekend, as I curled up on my sofa with an entire Whedonverse of comic books: the last two Buffys, all the Angels, and the first Serenity. Now, it’s been fairly well-established [...]
Continue reading...Why I Watch
23. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
Have you discovered Why We Write yet? Few sites do such a good job of putting a human face to the writers behind the strike and you should definitely check it out. RTVW answered with an explanation of why they watch, which is something I’ve been thinking about a bit recently. See, television ratings haven’t actually [...]
Continue reading...‘Lost’ In The Plot: Why TV Blockbusters Can’t Help But Disappoint You.
2. January 2008 Posted by Fergus
The body of a local beauty queen washes up on the beach…a group of airline crash survivors find themselves on a remote island inhabited by invisible monsters…a policeman finds himself transported thirty years into the past. These are great openings, and great openings demand a strong finish. How did he get back to 1973? How [...]
Continue reading...It’s Christmas Time on the Telly
26. December 2007 Posted by Marcia
This is the first time in three years that I’ve returned home for Christmas. The previous two years I spent with a family in Cornwall, celebrating Christmas the UK way. Now, you would expect the food to be a bit different, and it was. The British menu is far more likely to include cabbage and Christmas [...]
Continue reading...Jumping the Shark and Other Tricks: Heroes, House and Friday Night Lights
7. November 2007 Posted by Marcia
Being a fan of an American TV drama means always waiting for a favorite show to jump the shark. It seems unavoidable. Unlike shows from other countries, which have a limited number of seasons and episodes, US shows tend to stay on the air until they stop making money — and the only way that [...]
Continue reading...Vicarious Cruelty and Other Happy Thoughts
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home. ~David Frost Mr. Frost is right, you know. At the moment, I have an episode of Dexter waiting on my hard drive and watching that will likely be the high point of my [...]
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There’s something for everyone on Monday night. How I Met Your Mother still makes me laugh every week, which is something I never thought I’d say for a CBS comedy. CBS, 8:30
Chuck also still makes me laugh. So does Heroes, which follows it, though I’m pretty sure Chuck is the only one that’s intentionally funny. NBC, 8:00 and 9:00
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3. November 2008 Posted by Marcia
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