AltWeeklies Wire
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
Bummer: The Fourth Season of 'Weeds' is a Comedownnew
The Showtime dramedy about a pot-dealing MILF is in its fourth season, and was recently renewed for two more -- but who's gonna keep watching? A few choice moments aside, the once-mighty Weeds has pretty much sucked this season.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
09-11-2008 |
TV
9021-Uh-Ohnew
The new, or re–imagined, or re–hashed, or re–vaginally–juvinated or whatever 90210 premiered this week on the CW, and it’s no secret it was lacking.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
09-08-2008 |
TV
Chiklis Plays Dirty to the Endnew
While The Shield centers around corrupt cops, it also offers some sense of balance by showing officers and detectives who do play by the rules.
Orlando Weekly |
Marc D. Allan |
09-05-2008 |
TV
Tags: The Shield, Shawn Ryan
The Boys of 'Entourage' are Back in Action, Almostnew
In the season opener of Entourage, Vinnie Chase finds himself in jail--a free-floating party jail with joints by the fist-load, gorgeous girls at the ready and, as always, the loyal buddies who follow him everywhere--this time behind the figurative bars of Hollywood prison.
New York Press |
David Blum |
09-04-2008 |
TV
Runway Project Celebrates 'Project Runway'new
Runway Project is National Mechanics' screening party for the fifth season of Bravo's fierce reality TV show. Getting into the game is easy: Name your team (the more ProjRun-related the better) and name your "model," a hysterically disproportionate knockoff Barbie that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "hot tranny mess."
Philadelphia City Paper |
Rebecca Grites |
08-26-2008 |
TV
Margaret Cho: An All-American Girl Returns to the Small Screennew
Rounding up her family and friends, Cho decided to create a show where the situations were planned in advance, based on stories from her stand-up routine, but all of the lines were ad-libbed a la Curb Your Enthusiasm.
New York Press |
Adam Rathe |
08-25-2008 |
TV
The Vast Wastelandnew
What's so real about reality television?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Nsenga Burton |
08-13-2008 |
TV
'In Plain Sight' is Just Plain Badnew
After a half-decade of success as a station of lovable neurotics — Tony Shaloub's eponymous Monk; the idiosyncratic spies of Burn Notice, etc. — USA's thrown a curveball in the character of Mary Shannon, a neurotic who is quite the opposite of lovable.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
08-13-2008 |
TV
'Mad Men': The Champagne of Showsnew
I want a black Cadillac with fins like a shark. I want a shot of Seagram's in the calm hour after a rough day. I want to take a long drag on a short Camel to soothe my T zone; there'll be no irritation, four out of five doctors agree.
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
'Project Runway' is Too Much Like Itselfnew
I had high hopes. The fashion reality series is probably one of the only shows I take in religiously, waiting each week for the next episode. But the premiere of season five offered no surprises.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
07-29-2008 |
TV
Examining CNN's Series on Race Relationsnew
While CNN's ambition must be lauded, somehow you want Black in America to do more, say more.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
07-29-2008 |
TV
Why Aren't There More Musical TV Shows?new
Like RENT or Carousel or Pippin or Moulin Rouge or whatever, but in televised episodic form.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
07-28-2008 |
TV
