Jon Stewart began Monday night’s Daily Show by congratulating Conan O’Brien on his new show… and feigned shock upon discovering that Conan is now his time-period competition. “Now I’ll never be able to watch me!” he howled.
But Stewart was just winding up. As we kinda knew he would, Stewart wasted no time in taking on READ FULL STORY »
A little over nine months after leaving The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien gave birth to Conan on Monday night, and the baby arrived looking both familiar and a little tired.
Conan commenced with a taped bit about O’Brien’s departure from NBC, complete with READ FULL STORY »
The creepiest promo for Monday night’s Decision Points: A Conversation with George W. Bush was the snippet that played all last week during NBC’s entertainment programming, in which former president George W. Bush said to Matt Lauer, “Let’s talk about water-boarding” in an enthusiastic tone that suggested the subject was as fun and exciting as a trip to Disneyworld.
NBC’s promo department should be sent to the same woodshed where Keith Olbermann is being kept until Tuesday evening. It turned out that READ FULL STORY »
Keith Olbermann, suspended last week by MSNBC for making political donations, will be back hosting Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Tuesday night.
In a statement released Sunday evening, MSNBC president Phil Grifffin said, “I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night’s program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy. We look forward to READ FULL STORY »
The proof of whether The Walking Dead is going to be an engrossingly gross weekly TV series wasn’t in the elaborate, extra-long, Frank Darabont-directed pilot episode, but rather this week’s hour-long second edition. We knew from last week what the show is going to look like — how, working in a venerable horror tradition, the zombies have been freshly imagined, how they move, and who their potential victims are. The question was: Where does the show go from there?
Where it went was for the throat, so to speak. That is, Sunday night’s “Guts,” did not dial back on the pilot’s intensity, while fleshing out (really, almost any phrase is ripe for punning, I’m starting to realize) the human supporting cast.
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Sherlock wraps up its too-brief, three-episode run tonight on PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery! with another strong entry, “The Great Game.” Based on an Arthur Conan Doyle short story, the adventure has Benedict Cumberbatch’s Holmes chasing after READ FULL STORY »
“Hey there — anything crazy happen where you work today?” said Rachel Maddow at the start of her MSNBC show on Friday night. She was referring, of course, to the suspension of her prime-time neighbor, Keith Olbermann, for making donations to three Democratic congressional candidates.
According to NBC News policy cited by MSNBC president Phil Griffin, its employees cannot READ FULL STORY »
Things started out so well on Smallville this week. Clark and Lois, fresh from the intimacy they shared at the end of last week, were — at the suggestion of Lois, that minx — about to engage in READ FULL STORY »
For anyone who thinks there’s not enough football in Friday Night Lights, this week’s episode, titled “On The Outside Looking In,” had enough for a full season, as far as I was concerned. That’s because I’m one of those FNL fans who has no interest in football, so I usually just appreciate the quick cutting during the games and the helpful sportscaster-voiceovers telling me who’s winning and losing. (Does anyone else watch the show’s football scenes this way?) (And do I need to say SPOILER ALERT to anyone who READ FULL STORY »
