AltWeeklies Wire
Laughs Love Miserynew
C.K.'s Louie is gleefully pessimistic.
Boston Phoenix |
Ryan Stewart |
07-12-2010 |
TV
Tags: Louie, Louie C.K.
Back to the Futur(ama)new
Comedy Central resurrects Groening's other show.
Boston Phoenix |
Ryan Stewart |
06-25-2010 |
TV
Tags: Matt Groening, Futurama
Ken Burns Worships America's Spiritual Resource in His Latest Docnew
His PBS 12-hour epic The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a selective chronicle of the evolution of the National Parks system and the changing roles protected lands have played in American culture since Congress validated Yosemite in 1864.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-24-2009 |
TV
Is 'Project Runway' Walking in Circles?new
As I watched this season's 16 Project Runway hopefuls squinting into the setting sun during their champagne reception, it was hard not to view the scene as a sad little metaphor for the state of the show. What's supposed to feel like the beginning of something new sure looks a lot more like the end of something old.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Brodeur |
08-27-2009 |
TV
Can Chris Kattan be a Bollywood Hero?new
Here's something Chris Kattan probably rarely hears in real life: "In Night at the Roxbury, you were awesome!" Such, however, is the encomium proffered by two young Indian fans in IFC's new mini-series Bollywood Hero, which finds the former SNL cast member traveling to the subcontinent to star in a saffron-colored, jasmine-scented music-and-dance extravaganza.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-07-2009 |
TV
The Search for 'America's Biggest Asshole'new
This week in Boston, Spike TV held auditions for its new sub-low-culture program, America's Biggest Asshole. You're right -- all reality show tryouts are essentially auditions for America's Biggest Asshole, but this one is transparently egregious, as if the NHL re-named hockey "Kill the Man with the Puck."
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
07-15-2009 |
TV
PBS Puts a Human Face on Native American Historynew
In terms of exposition, inspiration, and cross-cultural outreach, you can think of We Shall Remain as the Native American Eyes on the Prize. Like that landmark documentary, this series reminds us that true glory lies in the honest histories of people, not the manipulated histories of governments.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
04-08-2009 |
TV
Re-Viewing 'Honey West'new
Produced on the cheap (by Aaron Spelling), and with some sets recycled from episode to episode, the short-lived series nonetheless retains some of its cocktail-shaker-and-hidden-transistors glamor on DVD.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
02-19-2009 |
TV
News From Waaay Outside the Mainstream: 'How's Your News?'new
How's Your News? is certainly groundbreaking: there's never been a program on TV hosted by people with disabilities.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
02-09-2009 |
TV
'Time Warp' Gives Us a Scientific Slowdownnew
A new Discovery Channel series slows down ordinary, and extraordinary, events using high-speed stroboscopic photography.
Boston Phoenix |
Cassandra Landry |
10-23-2008 |
TV
Fall TV Flies Without Pilotsnew
New fall series are traditionally unveiled to advertisers in May and TV critics in July, but not this year.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
09-11-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV, fall preview
The Rise of the Minisodenew
I spent 25 minutes with the Minisode Network on YouTube, and realized: The minisode is its own thing, a kind of minimal, calligraphic rendition of the original story, rather illuminating in the spareness of its strokes.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
07-31-2008 |
TV
Sid and Marty Krofft Show MySpace How Psychedelia’s Really Donenew
With a movie version of the Kroffts' Land of the Lost (starring Will Ferrell) due out in 2009, Sid and Marty are trying to woo a new demo by partnering with MySpace TV.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
07-31-2008 |
TV
The Creators of 'The Wire' Take on Iraq in 'Generation Kill'new
Generation Kill transforms Iraq from a theoretical problem into something you feel in your gut. Plus, an interview with the HBO series creators Dave Simon and Ed Burns.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
07-10-2008 |
TV
