RockStar: Supernova – Week One
“Dude, that sucked.” Former Guns n Roses fill-in axeman Gilby Clarke to wannabe rock star Chris Pierson. Rearranging the Police classic “Roxanne” into a neo-90s rawk anthem, Pierson had not only concocted a recipe for failure, but completely butchered the vocal in the process. But rock n roll is all about taking chances, right? Well, […]
Television can be very informative. Your local public broadcasting station puts on very educational and thought-provoking programming every day, and yet not many people watch it. Why? Well, let me give you some reasons…“You’re Only Thirteen… Stop Trying To Have A Baby”, “Taking The Test: Shocking Family Sex Secrets Exposed”, “Heartless Home Wreckers”. I could […]
Television is going to hell, or at least that’s what we’ve been relentlessly told ever since the advent of ‘reality’ television. What was once the realm of quirky experiments (such as MTV’s The Real World, which has run through 16 seasons now), is now the land of anything goes. Anything short of killing, raping, and […]
Really, what’s the hype about reality TV, kids? It’s all you hear about anymore. Are the moguls out in Tinsletown so complacent that they can’t think of something cool and original? Oh, wait, okay, so I do watch American Idol. Sure, it’s not really based on talent, but I dig it anyway. Even after I […]
In case you’ve been living under a rock lately or haven’t been watching basic cable, poker is the new ratings draw that several channels are using to garner attention. The Travel Channel, Bravo, and ESPN all have their own poker shows that are attempting to cash in on this latest TV trend. The shows themselves […]
Depending on whom you ask, the term “cliffhanger” either came from the Sherlock Homes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or from the serial films of the early 1930s. Either way you slice it, it ends up being the same thing- you have no clue how things are going to turn up. It’s that […]
Angel
The best show on television this current season is (drumroll please) Angel. Yep, that’s right, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off (both shows helmed by Joss Whedon) just had the best season it’s ever had, and I know, because I’ve seen them all. The show has finally come up out of the sewers and underground […]
So I’ll be honest. Friends won’t go down as the best show in the history of television. It probably doesn’t even deserve to be in the Top Ten, but you can’t deny its impact over the past decade. Way back in 1994, it presented us with six twenty-somethings trying to live in New York City. […]
So I’m assigned the task of coming up with a list of television essentials. Things no viewer should live without. Gee, that’s not daunting or anything. It’s not like I’ve got a huge history of more than half a century of television to choose from. I mean, I don’t know that I’m ready to publicly […]