In Premiere, Dancing Trumps Stars
“Dancing with the Stars” seems more and more old fashioned every time it comes on. A ballroom competition! Before an audience required to dress up! Featuring “stars” so obscure, a…
About That ‘Walking Dead’ Season Finale
If producers had seemed stingy parsing out zombies on “The Walking Dead” this season, the floodgates opened in the season finale, as what they called a herd of walkers overran…
Rosie’s Show Cancelled at OWN
Rosie O’Donnell’s daily talk show has been canceled on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN after just five months, it was announced Friday. The show, shot in the old Harpo studio in Chicago…
Shannon Sent Home on ‘Idol’
With the Top 13 down two men, “American idol” turned into a more familiar position Thursday – targeting women. Each of the bottom three vote recipients were women, representing the…
Gentle Giant Killing on ‘Idol’
Elimination came a day early on “American Idol” this week as the show announced it was cutting finalist Jermaine Jones, who judges kept calling “the gentle giant,’ for not disclosing…
‘Luck’ Ends After Horse Death
Here’s yet another David Milch series on HBO that won’t have an ending. Milch, who was the mastermind behind “Deadwood” and “John from Cincinnati” was pretty excited about his horsetrack…
Bizarre End for ‘Bachelor’
They tipped their hat at exactly what would happen on the season end of “The Bachelor” with their typical hyperbole: “The most controversial finale of ‘The Bachelor’ in history!” Well…
‘The Amazing Infomercial’
Part of the reason I stopped watching the local news at 11 o’clock (other than their warped idea of what’s important information), was that I couldn’t stomach so many car…
Here’s Stevie
VH1 is being pretty quiet in launching its new one-woman sketch comedy show, “Stevie TV.” The first episode debuted last Sunday with little or no promotion; I only happened to…
‘SNL’ Loses Its Political Punch
How bad have things suddently got on “Saturday Night Live”? Well, give them a time of plentiful political mishaps and an endless primary season to mock, they’ll just mess it…