Maybe we’re being a bit finicky, but we have a problem with critics around the interwebs hailing 2009 as one of the strongest years for television in recent memory. Quite the contrary: from where we sit, this year felt decidedly weak. Perennial favorites, like Lost and How I Met Your Mother, were saddled by disappointing Read More
Call us crazy—or maybe a little loopy—but we might be more excited for the Golden Globes than we are for the Oscars and the Emmys combined. Think about it: not only will everyone from our favorite movies (yes, that was a nomination for The Hangover in the Best Comedy category!) and television shows be together—at Read More
For the most obvious news of the fall, allow us to direct you to a recent Los Angeles Times article about dwindling television ratings. As it turns out, people aren’t watching TV like they used to, unless it falls under the moniker of the NCIS franchise (how did that happen?).
That Glee is Read More
We found ourselves kinda stunned by what happened on television last night. No, not that Republican congressman Joe Wilson heckled the president of the United States during his address to the joint session on Congress—seriously? “You lie?” This isn’t a town hall meeting in South Carolina, buddy!—but that we really found ourselves falling Read More
Monday: The Golden Girls
Thank you for being a friend! If it’s Labor Day Monday, that means it’s time for television marathons, and we’ll certainly take a pass by WE to catch a bit of The Golden Girls. Starting at 1 p.m., you can catch dozens of episodes back-to-back (hence the title “marathon”) Read More
If there’s a silver lining to be found in the end of the summertime—besides the opportunity to retire our flip-flops!—it’s that we are on the precipice of the fall television season. Thank goodness. In an effort to get you and your DVR prepared, here’s the Observer’s fall TV preview. We’ve already covered CBS Read More
Just how confident is Fox in its new hour-long musical comedy Glee (premiering tonight at 9), from Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy? Not only have they moved the premiere episode of the fall series up to spring, they’re airing it immediately following tonight’s final performance edition of American Idol. Add to that the effusive praise critics Read More
The similarities between the spring television season and August, the month on the Hollywood calendar when movie studios dump their untouchables, are kind of freaky. Didn’t the moderately successful premiere of Castle feel like a bad Nicolas Cage movie? Doesn’t In the Motherhood sound like some interminable Anna Faris comedy? Is Read More
