AltWeeklies Wire
Seattle PBS Channel Is Back in the Blacknew
Nearly insolvent two years ago, KCTS-TV raised more money in December than any public station in the country.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
01-12-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Desperate Thespians
Real-life struggling Hollywood actors play themselves in HBO’s Unscripted.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
01-07-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Devil Made Her Do It: TV Highlights, January 12-20
The Child of Darkness dons a bikini in Point Pleasant. Also reviewed are Unforgivable Blackness, Jonny Zero and more.
Tags: TV
Shock Around the Clock: TV Highlights, January 6-13
In Bush's America, any movie that makes Texas look worse than France has got to be considered revolutionary. ABC Family TV Movie She Gets What She Wants delivers. Also reviewed are 24, Masterpiece Theatre's He Knew He Was Right, Unscripted, Crank Yankers and more.
Tags: TV
New Year's Eve TV
Scheduled TV fare offers five good reasons to get the hell away from the tube on New Year’s Eve.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
12-26-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Being Fabulous Isn't Easy for Fabian Basabenew
The son of a successful Ecuadorian-born businessman had to lie low in Malibu after he was photographed in a provocative dance move with First Daughter Barbara Bush.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
12-21-2004 |
TV
Wykyd Specter
Six years after cancellation, Mr. Show With Bob & David is the star of 2004.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
12-13-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is Gaynew
The animated puppet special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, and you're a damn liar if you tell me you haven't spent at least 20 of those years secretly acknowledging that Rudy was a little light in the hooves.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
12-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Yule Logic
Psychoanalyzing what your favorite Christmas TV shows say about you.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
12-06-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cast, Away
TBS goes back to the beach with The Real Gilligan's Island ... but ... why?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
11-23-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Smooth Operatorsnew
We’re in the "feast" portion of the feast-or-famine TV cycle. Two of the season’s best new dramas, UPN’s Veronica Mars and Fox’s House, air opposite each other at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-16-2004 |
TV
Cartoon Network's Programs Appeal to Hip, Humor-Hungry Insomniacsnew
Cartoon Network used to be the unlikeliest place on basic cable to see a decapitation. Or a nipple. Or hear a curse word. But that was before Adult Swim.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman and Heather Kuldell |
11-11-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dead Lines
Have big corpse-y fun with the Crime Scene Investigation random quip generator!
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
11-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Flavor Flav Speaks on His Surreal Lifenew
Flav's decision to go on Surreal Life, a show for celebrity has-beens, is confounding to longtime fans. As much as Public Enemy's current relevance has waned in recent years, its legacy is enough to make Flav more than some nostalgic figure from pop culture's past.
Long Island Press |
Kenny Herzog |
11-04-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Arrested Development's First Season DVD Releasednew
TV's best comedy recaps the tribulations of the conniving Bluth family with such a hot-foot pace that it looks more like the high-speed prologues of Raising Arizona or The Royal Tannenbaums than a conventional sitcom.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
