If you don't watch ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption," I probably won't be able to explain this one to you. And if you do watch ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption," this placement will be such a no-brai...
How successful was NBC's formula for "The Office"? It was later lifted for a British series, containing almost all of the same characters and elements. Of course, as so often happens, the British remake was ...
A wise man -- OK, a fictional man -- once distilled the essence of life in seven words: "Get busy living, or get busy dying."
Now, as you'll recall, Andy Dufresne was committed that ethos.
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Synecdoche.
In your high school english class, it referred to a figurative device wherein the part represents the whole. The easy example that is stuck in my head is the one in which "50 sail"...
When the story of TV in the Aughts is written, much will be discussed about the shift of quality scripted TV to cable and how that shift led to darker programming and edgier programming. And then there will be analysi...
Between The WB and UPN, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" aired 77 episodes in the Aughts, compared to 67 episodes in the '90s and yet I'm sitting here at my computer lamenting over one episode.
On Decembe...
Looking back over the past decade, no awards show gained more credibility in this period than...the Oscars? Yes, it's true. The venerable organization expanded its membership base, got younger (relatively)...
In the lead-up to the fall of 2006, many articles were written about the strangeness of NBC's fall lineup including both Tina Fey's "30 Rock" and Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
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I've had a couple major TV viewing catch-ups this year this year. I've already mentioned that "Battlestar Galactica" has been my pre-Best of the Decade project. And my Twitter followers also know that in the...
If all-ages TV animation went from marginalized to mainstream in the '90s, the genre went from mainstream to ubiquitous on the '00s. The old standbys were already there from the previous decade, including "Family...
