Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free It’s probably a little too late to mention that, but you could ring in the New Year with Paris Hilton at the Trademark night club in Sydney, Australia, and it will only cost you $129. That’s just one of the many celeb ways you can toast to 2009. You...

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free Here’s what’s on TV tomorrow. Lots of marathons, movies, and bowl games. Sci-Fi’s Twilight Zone marathon continues from final night. AMC is showing classic westerns all day. Cartoon Network has Looney Tunes all day. Hallmark...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free TBS has a Tyler Perry’s House of Payne marathon all night. Sci-Fi has a marathon of the original Twilight Zone all night. Disney has a Totally New Year’s Eve marathon. HBO2 has a True Blood...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, Programming, TV on DVD, OpEd, Festivus, Reality-Free Being that we eat, breathe, drink, sleep, pee, poop and vomit television here at TV Squad, we like to gauge the pulse of the community once in awhile. It gives us a chance to see what others are thinking and...

Filed under: Late Night, The Amazing Race, Video, Celebrities, Heroes, TV Squad Lists, The Big Bang Theory Yes, I am the odd duck. Well, wait. Perhaps it’s not all just me. I mean, I’m talking some really odd duck television crushes I have. Some are odd considering other folks might not understand...

Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free If you were hoping the Screen Actors Guild would be able to rise above the fray and destroy the networks’ heads with a mighty swipe of their superbly manicured hands, thereupon keep hoping. Christmas is by and Santa has come and gone. Ask him next year....

Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Music and Variety, Talk Show It comes in just under the wire, but one 2008’s late breaking stories might prove to be one of the most influential. About a month ago, NBC gave Jay Leno the 10 PM slot every weeknight starting next fall. That’s...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Cable/Satellite, News and Gossip Have been itching for a fix of South Park, Spongebob or Bonanza? Well, bite down on some leather, drink plenty of fluids, and get ready for some faraway nights of withdrawal, considering Viacom is pulling 18 channels off the air...

Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Festivus, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free Does the title of that post have you groaning and asking yourself, “Why are we talking about that again?” whether so, I’m familiar with the feeling. It’s how I felt earlier that year as the gossiperati...

Filed under: Industry, Scrubs, Reality-Free It’s a question worth asking as we approach the show’s supposed final season. In an spread that ran in yesterday’s New York Times, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence confirmed that ABC, the show’s new domestic, might continue the show in some...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free I’m starting to sound like a broken record. In the past two months, I’ve written four stories about series regulars wanting out of their contract or getting fired: Brooke Smith fired from Grey’s...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has Happy New Year, Charlie Brown, followed by Rudolph’s Shiny New Year and new episodes of According To Jim and Eli Stone. PBS has a new Nova at 8. ESPN has The Holiday Bowl at 8. Also...

Filed under: OpEd, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Every year around that day we all assemble our New Year’s resolutions. We’re going to lose weight, stop smoking, not bite our nails, being nicer to each other, assemble more money, and generally become the most perfect, awesome public in the...

Filed under: TV Royalty, Reality-Free For all you television fans (and I suspect at least one or two read that site) who are plus stamp collectors, there is good news. The United States Postal Service is releasing a set of stamps in 2009 commemorating classic American television shows. I do like the...

Filed under: Programming, Stargate, The Office, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten Enough looking back already! Let’s forget that 2008 was a mostly dismal year for TV and focus on the future. From sci-fi detectives to contemporary Mad Men, the 2009 TV season has a lot to offer. Here are ten new shows...

Filed under: OpEd, HDTV, Cable/Satellite, Web, Reality-Free, Webisodes When I’m not pumping out my latest TV rant for the ol’ Squad here, I write pretty infrequently for another blog with some old college roomies called The Suite Spot. It’s really nothing more than a bunch of disgruntled...

Filed under: OpEd, 24, Reality-Free As whether you haven’t heard it sufficient from all of us here at TV Squad, one of the best perks by far of the TV critic biz is getting to see episodes before they air. DVD screeners are always pouring into the TV Squad HQ for just about everything - usually...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Programming, Video, Celebrities, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Cheers While ABC, NBC, and CBS have historically remained in a cutthroat battle for viewers, each network has shared one common trait: come the season of network promotional campaigns,...

Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Video, Music and Variety, Retro Squad, Reality-Free New Year’s Eve. A day to celebrate, get poop-faced drunk, reflect on the final year and the new one to follow, and get even more drunk as you see the daunting task ahead. It is, or was, plus a moment for an annual...