Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US) Pssst … want to know a secret? Someone will be evicted tonight on Big Brother 10. I can tell right here on the main page of TV Squad that it’s not going to be April. Oh, I know … that’s not very spoiler-ish of me, is it? But I can’t post...

Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free If you like strong women on TV, the kind you’ve been seeing on TNT in The Closer and Saving Grace, you’ll be happy to take in that the network has more formidible females on tap. TNT has given the greenlight to a new drama called Time Heals....

Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Barbara Walters The Daily Show: Brian Williams The Colbert Report: Buzz Aldrin The Late Show with David Letterman: Luke Wilson, Mindy Kaling,...

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free TV Land has an Andy Griffith Show marathon tonight while CMT has a Scott Baio Is 46…And Pregnant marathon. At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother. NBC has a new, two hour Last comedian Standing at 8, followed by a new Fear Itself. FOX has...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Reality-Free I’m surprised that someone hasn’t thought of that before. The owners of the Quality Foods supermarkets are now the owners of the boat used on Gilligan’s Island. The company plans to send the boat on a promotional tour for Quality Foods,...

Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con (Check out part two of that four-part report) Saturday This should have felt like the domestic stretch. I should have felt like the end of it all was approach. But a glance at the day’s schedule reminded me I was going to be running around like a madman all...

Filed under: OpEd, Game Show, Reality-Free I don’t normally watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire after my local news in the afternoon. After the news is by I normally switch to another channel, but that week they’re having a “TV Week,” (though it could be a repeat week since it’s...

Filed under: OpEd, Video, Retro Squad, The X-Files, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows. (S02E20) I was never a regular X-Files viewer, so I can’t say that I had a favorite episode,...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers. While I’m really, really happy that Burn Notice grabbed the #6 slot that week, I’m a little bummed out that Mad Men didn’t produce the top 10. In fact, it didn’t...

Filed under: Programming, Pickups and Renewals No doubt envious of all the buzz The Soup is getting, E!’s sister channel, Style Network, is planning their own version. Premiering August 16th, The Dish will cover more topics than The Soup including TV, celebrities, fashion and beauty. Here’s...

Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free “Illegally Blonde”: For someone so adorably blonde, Monica Goodling certain did a lot of not-so-nice things. The former aide to the terribly forgetful Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was recently accused of picking and choosing...

Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free, Mad Men Part of the fascination with Mad Men is the way it plunges the viewer into another moment, another place. In the second season premiere final week, the story of Don Draper picked up about a year and a half after the end of the first season. It was February...

Filed under: Programming, Documentary, Reality-Free When I saw the headline that Discovery Channel was working on a Da Vinci series, my first thought was that they were finally dipping their toes in the scripted drama pool. considering, really, there’s some mileage to be had with a show about Da...

Filed under: News, Industry, Reality-Free BBC now stands for “Bad not good Company.” At least in regards to the latest fines the BBC received from Ofcom, a record-setting £400,000 ($792,000). The infractions spread across radio and television hitting such high-profile television programs...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Interviews, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour There was one and only one reason why I wanted to speak to Tori Spelling at NBC’s TCA party: No, it wasn’t considering of 90210, though I was curious about it. It was considering of my girlfriend. I’m serious....

Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Children, Reality-Free The new season of Sesame Street is right around the corner and, while I normally wouldn’t give it a moment thought, I am unusually excited right now. No, that isn’t a snarky rant about how I’ve been driven to children’s TV...

Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, So You Think You Can Dance (S04E20) I think by the twentieth episode of American Idol we were just getting to “Hollywood Week.” But here on SYTYCD we’re on the cusp of the “Final Four!” final week, we lost Will and consolation. consolation...

Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews (S05E03) Question: What were the judges smoking in that episode? More specifically, were they smoking one of the hideous creations from that challenge? This challenge was pretty straightforward, as the designers were dropped off at different locations...

Filed under: Celebrities, Project Runway You knew when the Harvey Weinstein/NBC Universal case came to court by Project Runway that things were going to get testy. But the knowledge that came out nowadays — that Tim Gunn wasn’t paid a cent for the first season of Project Runway — was...