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Frost Previews Best and Worst Summer TV Comedies
If comedy on TV is dying, it’s because of life-sucking yuk vacuums like "Come to Papa," the Peacock network’s lone scripted offering in a deceptively-marketed New! Summer! Season! full of the usual cheap-o reality programming.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-07-2004 |
TV
Seacrest, Out!
On-Air With Ryan Seacrest canceled; national holiday declared.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Pretend Candidates Fake the Nation
Showtime’s American Candidate is the story of 10 candidates who find out what happens when they stop being political and start getting real … or is it stop being real and start getting political?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-22-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Reality Nadir
Two new shows, Fox's Trading Spouses and UPN's Amish in the City, could make future filler for the Fox Reality Channel set to debut next year.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-15-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cable, Ready?
It turns out the new summer season is actually xeriscape: dry, barren and really only succeeding in annoying the neighbors. Frost reviews hot-to-not new summer series, including "Stargate Atlantis," "Entourage" and "The Grid."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Time Drama
Is the USA Network’s The 4400 sci-fi or soap opera? All that and more, geeks and girls.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
House of Ha-Ha
The comedy, reality and tragedy of NBC's Last Comic Standing.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-17-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Gates of Hell Open a Little Wider for TV Plastic Surgeons
If the first three episodes of Season 2 are any indication, the entirety of this darkly comic drama's first season was just a toe in the waters of what a network can get away with on basic cable.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-12-2004 |
TV
"Six Feet Under" Is Back, Looking Almost Alive
The fourth-season premiere of the HBO series is every bit as maudlin and humorless as most of last season, but, fortunately, subsequent episodes are as lively and darkly funny as anything from that wondrous summer of Season One.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-07-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
