Post archive for ‘The Biz’
To Be Seen, Not Tasted
Why do we enjoy Top Chef so much? Aside from the fact that it’s one of the few respectable, legitimate competition shows, and aside from the fact that we are all gluttons for culinary-inferiority punishment, why do we watch a show in which we cannot participate? With So You Think You [...]
The Everywhere Actors
When you watch as much television as I do, you see familiar faces all the time, and then you have to ask yourself (or IMDb), “Where have I seen him/her before?” For example, I’m watching the first season of House, [...]
It’s a Little Pitchy, Dog
To know me is to know my profound distaste for American Idol. I hate the show not only because it employs some of the worst of reality-television practices, but also because more-deserving shows don’t stand a chance when they’re scheduled against it. So it always delights me when I hear of news [...]
The Future of Classic
The following post was originally published on my old blog on July 7, 2009.
After watching the second-season finale of Breaking Bad, the dramatic series about a chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-dealer desperate to not let his cancer treatment bankrupt his family, I had one thought: thank God this show is on AMC.
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Follow That Sound
The following post was originally published on my old blog on June 28, 2009.
Lately, the trend regarding opening titles has been to make them as short as possible. Gone are the days of ones lasting a minute-and-a-half. And rapidly going are the days of ones lasting thirty seconds. For example, both Grey’s Anatomy and [...]
An Elegy for the Remote-Free
The following post was originally published on my old blog on April 1, 2009.
One of my favorite practices this season was Fox’s “remote-free TV” model, in which the networks aired fewer commercials during each episode of Fringe and Dollhouse—while charging advertisers more for the exclusivity—in an effort to keep viewers watching live, instead of recording the [...]
Give These Actors a Take Two!
The following post was originally published on my old blog on March 29, 2009.
The following actors are all alumni of some of my favorite shows, and I want them back on television. Post haste!
Merrin Dungey Dungey is one of my beloved Alias actors and probably one of the most under-appreciated. She spent two seasons playing Francie Calfo and then made [...]
The Sophomore Slaughter
The following post was originally published on my old blog on January 22, 2009.
For some reason, I’m always surprised when shows are cancelled in their second seasons or later. To me, cancellation seems like [...]