It's Television: Dissected
some back stories don’t cut it. I was inspired to write all this when I saw a kid on The Voice who couldn’t sing. Her back story was that her grandmother died a few years ago. And last year there was another girl whose back story was that she used to have a big nose. No really. She used to have a big nose.
The huge audience drop for Homeland raises serious questions about the challenges facing traditional TV. The brutal reality is this: content that has screened in other…
Back in episode 295 we had our own ürbernerd, Ben McKenzie, talk about The Big Bang Theory and its poor portrayal of nerds on TV. Listener…
Shows that are too good to watch Like the depression that follows finishing a really good book, receiving technically faultless oral sex, or meeting someone with…
New Hollywoonderkind, Lena Dumham is behind the HBO series, Girls: a look at four 20-something women in New York trying to make sense of their lives…
I’ve moved to Amsterdam. Yesterday it got to a balmy -4 degrees and my partner Todd and I got all excited. Not so excited that we…
A couple of years ago, while in New York, I went to see a taping of the Late Show with David Letterman. I detailed the experience…
I’m watching I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and wondering what happened to Britain. These people used to run the world. Now they spend…
Glenn Peters admits that he loves boring TV and hates it when producers try to make it more interesting. His reckoning is that, even if you don’t enjoy the Brownlow count itself, you appreciate the integrity and importance of boring TV. The only way to find out more about this, and yourself, is to read even further. Enter the world of Boring TV.
Josh Kinal watched Four Weddings twice in one week and lost faith in humanity, again.
