Back in ‘The Game’
Here’s something that never happens: A show that has closed shop and been off the air for two years suddenly returns, by popular demand. “The Game,” which played three seasons…
The Return of the African-American Sitcom
The heyday of the African-American family sitcom didn’t die with UPN, it’s simply moved to cable. In addition to TBS where “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” begat “Meet the Browns”…
How Nixon Got to Say ‘Sock It to Me’
It may be one of the signature seconds of “Laugh-In,” the influential and insurrectionist 1960s sketch humor: Nixon saying the hot catch phrase of the day, immediately before the 1968…
From Sleater-Kinney to ‘Portlandia’
The least expected member of a new comedy series may be Carrie Brownstein, the former member of Sleater-Kinney and sometime rock journalist who combines with Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night…
Jeff Bridges: Duderonomy
Jeff Bridges, who made dozens of movies, and won a handful of Oscar nominations, snared his first Academy Award last year for “Crazy Heart” and is in theaters this season…
Oprah Considers Her New Network
It was New Year’s Day, when she was watching the new network that bore her name that it struck her. “I fully started to grasp what it means to have…
Oprah: Change Your Slogan TV
"Being on the air for the past 25 years, I’ve learned a lot about myself," Oprah Winfrey says. "You learn from what worked and what didn’t work. And I made the…
Gayle King Readies Her New TV Talk Show
In her effort to sell her new daily talk show – the first since she tried one in Hartford when she was a leading news anchor here, Gayle King was…
Mike Tyson’s Flight of Fancy
Had she not eclipsed the day at the TV Critics tour, if not the entire event, the panel people would have been talking about was that of Mike Tyson. The…
Medical Miracle from Madison on Nat Geo
A young man from Madison makes national TV next month when his unusual medical story is the basis of a National Geographic ‘Explorer.” Lukas Massella of Madison was born with…