So this is Valentine’s Day? They can keep it! OK, so maybe I shouldn’t be saying that, after all I’m hitched and as a decent husband I should be overspending today on flowers, candy and teddy bears in hopes that my wife will repay me in … making awesome dinner for me! I’m a hopeless romantic, but I’ve never understood why we have to go out of our way this one day to love someone we should be loving just […]
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The Loretta Young Show, which aired on NBC from 1953 to 1961, embodies a lot of TV history. First of all, it’s an anthology series, a format which is completely dead…
It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited for anything on late night TV. Sure, Conan’s cool. Fallon’s OK, and I can hang with Letterman every now and then. But nothing has been the same since Arsenio Hall signed off in 1994, after a five year run that did much for the representation of urban culture on television. Guess what, boys and girls? Arsenio is back this September with a new talk show! Thanks to his success on the […]
Ted Asregadoo revisits the NBC post-apocalyptic drama, “Revolution.”
Even if you weren’t an Emblem3 fan, you had to be surprised to see them go instead of Fifth Harmony. Simon’s pandering to the audience for votes for Fifth Harmony more than likely hurt Emblem3′s chances. He pandered for the wrong team. It left us with a rather bland final three. Tate Stevens was an early favorite who got boring mid-season and finished strong. Carly Rose has been consistently good all season long. And Fifth Harmony has been terribly inconsistent […]
While I would watch MTV’s The Challenge (originally Real World/Road Rules Challenge) from time to time simply because I was an on-and-off Real World watcher, I became a much bigger fan of MTV’s The Challenge because of The BS Report, ESPN’s own Bill Simmons’ podcast. He and David Jacoby talked about The Challenge being America’s fifth sport after baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. I haven’t missed a beat on the last three years of shows, though I wish Netflix would […]
In this edition of Blerd Briefs: Chevy Chase leaves TV, Lil Wayne leaves hip-hop, Coldplay leaves the stage, and Chris Brown leaves Twitter.
For any of you who have never seen (or even heard of) The Carol Burnett Show, it’s time to check it out, because they really don’t make em like this anymore.
The target audience for the new Steve Martin box set will remember a time when ”on-demand” meant tuning into a television program at the scheduled time, or buying tickets to…
