AltWeeklies Wire
Back to the Drawing Boardnew
Is it possible you've lived for the past seven years amid the wreckage of post-20th-century pop culture and you still don't know what the hell anime is?
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
12-18-2007 |
TV
Top Ten: The Year in Televisionnew
Fuck Tony Soprano: there, we said it. Not only does David Chase's massive soap opera for the male midlife crisis not appear on this Top 10 list, but only one voting viewer put it on a ballot.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Long Live the 'King'new
Archives of the cult classic King of the Hill are open for all to judge.
The Texas Observer |
Susana Hayward |
12-17-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
That's a Wrapnew
Ready for the series finale of Extras?
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Fashion Nightmarenew
Reality shows inevitably begin to suck. It's like a law of the universe. No matter how great they are to begin with, they all suck by season four or five. Like Project Runway.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Tripping Out on a Kid's Shownew
A combination of in-jokes and surrealist farce, the children's DVD Showbeast is trippier than Sesame Street and more avant-garde than Pee Wee's Playhouse, though it would still appeal to a little kid or a stoned person.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Strike Hits Homenew
Get used to new unscripted shows like Crowned, Clash of the Choirs, and Duel.
C-Ville Weekly |
Eric Rezsnyak |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Almost Famousnew
A long wait for a short brush with stardom at The Amazing Race auditions.
San Diego CityBeat |
Nathan Dinsdale |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Never See TVnew
Striking WGA writers want the TV industry to know "what kind of fantastic blockbusters and hit TV shows and dinner-time background noise that America is missing out on."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Millard |
12-11-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
An Inconvenient Man
Independent Lens film examines the legacy of Ralph Nader.
A Visit to the Big Housenew
In each episode of the documentary series Lockup, the viewer is given a guided tour of one of our nation's prisons. Some are modern high-tech hellholes, others are collapsing chipped-paint, broken-toilet hellholes, but all are hellholes.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
12-07-2007 |
TV
Angels Can’t Save PBS’s Tony Kushner Docnew
Wrestling With Angels is a good cross-section of all the elements that comprise the life of playwright Tony Kushner, but the juxtaposition of these elements sometimes seems capricious.
San Antonio Current |
William Razavi |
12-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV, Wrestling With Angels
Sci Fi Channel Boldy Goes to Oznew
An endlessly twisted riff on The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man takes L. Frank Baum;s classic story and puts it through a modern space-age blender.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Patrick Hildebrandt |
12-04-2007 |
TV
Enough With Insider Hollywood ... Bring on the Fart Jokesnew
Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider consistently air some of the least relevant content on television. A much more enlightening show is Comedy Central's newly acquired Kenny Vs. Spenny.
New Haven Advocate |
Doron Monk Flake |
12-04-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
New Kid in Town
CBS' Kid Nation emerges as one of the most interesting shows of the fall TV season.
Tags: TV, Kid Nation
