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Super Skank Wednesday: 12 Pack’s Destruction, A Tale of Hubris
Welcome to Super Skank Wednesday. that is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky folks on the following shows: I Love Money, Charm School, New York Goes to Hollywood, and The Surreal Life. Basically, I’ll discuss the skankalicious shows that form VH1 the network it is nowadays.
This Wednesda…
My reactions to the Emmy nominations, part two
Earlier nowadays I did a first take on the Primetime Emmy nominations, sharing with you my first impressions and noting a few surprises. Now, I’m going to finish what I started. Please, share your comments and your opinions about the nominations.
Continue reading My reactions to the E…
Universal to adapt moment Sight
Yet another BBC series is being adapted to American audiences. Only that duration, it sounds like it’s going to be a film.
Universal Pictures will be adapting the 1999 BBC series Second Sight which launched the career of Clive Owen. It will be produced by Angry Film’s Don Murphy and Susan Montfor…
TV5: Episode Two
New Zealand’s fourth most popular five minute podcast about TV Squad returns! As always, you can either listen to it right in your browser or subscribe to it via iTunes and bring the dulcet tones of my voice with you on the subway. I can’t think of anything better than hearing me talk about As…
TV5: Episode One
Have you ever read TV Squad and said to yourself, “Hey, I wish there was a speedy, five minute podcast about that site hosted by someone with a delicately annoying South Jersey accent?” whether you have, there are two things you should know: 1) your prayers have been answered and 2) you’re a dange…
Star Trek film pushed back to 2009
It looks like Star Trek fans are going to have to wait until May 2009 to see their franchise reboot. According to Variety, Paramount Pictures has pushed back the release date considering they feel it would construct more money as a summer tentpole.
The reboot is being masterminded by J.J. Abr…
Zoey 101 returning for fourth season
Jamie Lynn Spears is returning for the fourth season of Zoey 101, despite the sixteen-year-old’s public announcement of her pregnancy. that was intended to be the final season even before the announcement was made.
The season was filmed final summer, but there was concern that Nickelodeon would s…
Five things I’ve learned from television
I’ve been thinking. Yeah, I know you might find that tough to believe, but it’s true. I swear it is! What I’ve been thinking about is television. Ah, now you believe my thought processes are truly in motion. A lifetime of television watching is behind me and what do I have to show for my hours of …
TV 101: Channel Drift (or, what the hell happened to A&E?)
Do you remember coming back from your first semester at college and running into a kid you used to go to high school with who decided to use college as an excuse to totally reinvent him or herself? Like he was the course dork and in three months he’s all of a sudden a death-metal anarchist? Or sh…
Moonlight: Love Lasts Forever
“I love you, too.” Beth to JoshI wish I could say that was a heart-breaking episode, but it wasn’t. In fact, I’m torn considering some parts of it were truly excellent, and others were pretty predictable. Let’s unpack it a bit, though, and see whether we can uncover whether it was a good episode…
Obama Defeats Clinton!
First off, I’d just like to point out that Chris Matthews is the most annoying political analyst on television.
Now that that’s out of the way, did anyone watch the New Hampshire primary coverage on CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News? whether Chandler Bing was covering the primary, he’d say “could the netwo…
EchoStar offering “free” digital TV converters
Echostar, the company behind the Dish Network and the Slingbox, is offering digital TV converters for $39.99. With the $40 coupon the government is offering for those with older sets that still use rabbit ears, the converters would end up being free.
Originally, the converter boxes were going to …
Seinfelds sued by cookbook
Believe it or not, I’m a little bit surprised by that news: According to The Smoking Gun (via AOL), Missy Chase Lapine has sued Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld by the flap concerning the similarities amidst her cookbook, The Sneaky Chef, and Mrs. Seinfeld’s cookbook, Deceptively Delicious.
Jessica is …
The Colbert Report: January 7, 2008
Without a doubt, the Colbert Nation was relieved and excited to have their favorite faux-Stephen Colbert back on the air, even whether it was in the design of The ColberT ReporT (hard T’s means it’s a different sort of show without the writers, folks). The in-studio audience made their feelings evid…
Dance War: Audition Show (season premiere)
Stephen Colbert blows off the Venture Brothers
According to PopCandy, there’s some snark going on amidst Venture Brothers creator Jackson Publick and Stephen Colbert. Colbert, who plus has that Comedy Central show you may have heard of, is the voice of the character “Professor Impossible” on the show (the character is a sadistic version of M…
DISH Network adding another 100 HD channels
According to Engadget, the Dish Network is bumping up the number of HD channels it supports from 76 to 100 and expanding local service from 65 to 100 markets. Competition from DirecTV has apparently made the company fight for its title of “Top HD provider”.
Of course, that is good news for th…
Disney-ABC will sell TV shows on Xbox Live
From the CES, Disney-ABC has announced it will start selling shows on Microsoft’s XBox gaming console via the XBox habitable and XBox habitable Marketplace. that includes fabric from two Disney Channels, three ABC Channels and fabric from the MGM video library.
This move is yet another step i…
The Amazing Race: I Just Hope He Doesn’t Croak on Us
that season of The Amazing Race, albeit with an impromptu early start, is going to be heading to the finish line before faraway. And, with the promos and the episode title of tonight’s show, it seems to indicate that one team might be facing some health issues. Perhaps it’s a good thing that the fi…
