Filed under: American Idol, Reviewcaps, Contestants, Performances, Celebrity Commentary, Episode Reviews (S07E36) What an underwhelming evening for the most part. In fact, I’d like to scrub that first round of songs from my memory banks totally. The contestants should be ashamed that they took...

Filed under: Programming, Reaper, Reality-Free OK, technically, I suppose David Baldy - Bret’s writing partner - is asking for them, but he’s doing it on bretharrison.com, so it counts just the same. After noting that the LA Times has declared Reaper to be “on the bubble,” the...

Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Arianna Huffington The Daily Show: Robert Schlesinger The Colbert Report: Noah Feldman The Late Show with David Letterman: Matthew Broderick,...

Filed under: Sports, News, TV Royalty, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free Anyone catch the habitable broadcast of Costas NOW final night? I was lucky ample to get a few tickets and went to the habitable taping in Manhattan with my girlfriend. And I really do mean lucky. Not only did we get seated in the...

Filed under: 24, Web, WGA Strike, Reality-Free To tie us by until 24’s seventh season premieres in January 2009 (it’s closer than we think), Fox is appeasing us with The Rookie, five-minute webisodes following the adventures of American Counter Terrorism agent Jason Blaine, played by Jeremy...

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free TLC has a Little citizens, Big World marathon all night. TNT has the NBA Playoffs all night. At 8, ABC has a new Wife Swap, soon after new episodes of Supernanny and Boston Legal. CBS has a new Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular...

Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, News and Gossip Note I said faltering and not failing. American Idol is still far and absent the number one show on television. But ratings are down for the moment season in a row, so those in charge would be fools to simply disregard that. And since you are the ones...

Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! MAGICAL SPOILERS! On today’s edition of Oprah, which many humans in the country have already seen, magician/stunt artist David Blaine attempted to break the world record for a person holding their breath. Did...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers. Wait, no SpongeBob SquarePants that week? Actually, two episodes of the show just missed making the top 10. Probably considering a positive cranky doctor named House decided to go on a rampage...

Filed under: Video, Web, Reality-Free I haven’t gotten into iTunes video yet. My iTunes music file keeps getting fatter and fatter, but I haven’t done anything with video yet. I’m composition with buying DVDs and using YouTube and AOL TV for my video needs. But whether more stuff like...

Filed under: Daytime, Talk Show, Emmys, Reality-Free The Daytime Emmy nominations were announced that dawn on The View. My initial reaction is that: there are so many repeat nominees! that list is filled with actors who have won multiple times. Are the Daytime Emmys in a rut? I’m afraid so. that...

Filed under: News, The Daily Show, Reality-Free Ever watch The Daily Show skewer a politician or military figure with his or her own words, and wonder how they found the video evidence? I’m guessing that the humans at The Washington Post were asking the same question. So instead of profiling one...

Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Michael Emerson owns season four of Lost. Many of the season’s best scenes have featured Ben Linus. From screwing with Locke to obsessing by Juliet, Ben has become one of the show’s standout characters. Emerson took the complex...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Animation, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free Allison told you a couple of months ago about the opportunity of Family Guy’s Cleveland getting his own spinoff show. Well now it looks like that’s going to be a reality (not a reality show, but a cartoon …...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Super Skank Wednesday Welcome to Super Skank Wednesday. that is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky public on the following shows: Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, I Love New York (or whatever show Tiffany Pollard is making next), The Surreal Life,...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free Why have one outlaw biker show when you can have two? I always find it a little odd when you see two movies or television shows pop up at the same duration that share strikingly similar premises. And that’s what we have...

Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free “Land of the Spree”: Grand Theft Auto IV was finally released and gun-wielding crazies took the streets in droves and… very politely waited in line in an orderly manner. Senior Virtual Correspondent Aasif Mandvi reported...

Filed under: Monk, Casting, Reality-Free With the premature death of actor Stanley Kamel, USA Network and the producers of Monk were compelled to find another actor to play a psychiatrist for the OCD detective. TV Guide has gotten the exclusive word that Hector Elizondo has been cast as Monk’s...

Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd Okay, here’s a good one found via Pop Candy…someone listed six of the best Sci Fi television shows that you never saw (meaning that they lasted only a season or less). If a young Julie Newmar is a robot, is she the first fem-bot? I suppose...