Friday TV: A Mistress and Other Newsmagazines
Rielle Hunter, John Edwards’ mistress, is back in the spotlight promoting a new book, titled "What Really Happened," with a slew of interviews, including one tonight with Chris Cuomo on…
Thursday TV: ‘Reincarnation’ Amid Reruns
All Yeshi Norbu wanted was a normal life. Born in Italy and raised in the West he couldn’t quite cut off ties with his past in Tibet, where his father…
BBC’s ‘Inside Men’ Absorbing Fare
It officially becomes summer tonight, at a time when TV is a forlorn landscape of reality programming and reruns. There's a cool, gripping drama starting tonight, though on BBC America…
Also On Wednesday: New ‘Baby Daddy,’ ‘Futurama’
The first of what will be a few sitcoms about the outlandish idea that men takes care of infants, “Baby Daddy” (ABC Family, 8:30 p.m.), is more directly based on…
Talking Reality Treasures with Beers
Some pretty high-powered TV writers were gathered yesterday for a taped panel on reality television. Damian Holbrook, the TV Guide senior writer; Andy Dehnart, my friend behind the indispensible RealityBlurred.com…
A Response to Redneck TV
My story in the Washington Post on the rise of Redneck and Hillbilly-themed shows on cable has drawn a lengthy response from a reader in Buford, Ga., whose argument may…
Tuesday TV: Bristol’s Back on Reality TV
It may not have been fair for Bristol Palin to be thrust into the limelight because of her mother’s political ambition. It was certainly bad timing that she was a…
The Genius of ‘The Glass House’
If it were a crime for one network to borrow the premise of another’s hit show, half of TV would go dark. CBS’ “Big Brother” tried to press the issue…
Sex and ‘The Push Girls’
Not often I’m in a plush ballroom facing four beautiful women, one of which volunteers not five minutes into the conversation: “I can have sex.” Actually, Angela Rockwood is explaining…
The dB’s Return
“Here’s another hit,” Peter Holsapple said in the middle of The dB’s show at the Iota in Arlington last week. You could practically hear the ironic quote marks around the…