AltWeeklies Wire
Falling Into TV
The first of the new fall 2004 network shows, are reviewed/previewed for your convenience.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-03-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Kilby Goes Down: Late Late Show Host Quits
Craig Kilborn -- preening, smug, insincere, womanizing playboy host of CBS' Late Late Show -- walks away. A nation (sort-of) mourns.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cable Network Pans for Comedy Gold
Bravo’s looking for a few good sitcoms from regular ol' folks. How about one set in an alt-weekly newsroom?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
"Shrek 2" Avoids the Expected Sequel Pitfallsnew
Freed from the need to be the cocky "anti-Disney," SHREK 2 gets hilariously comfortable in its own skin.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Adamson, Shrek 2
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
Potter and Chums Enter Awkward Phasenew
With a new director on board, Harry Potter -- both the character and the franchise -- make a move from childhood to maturity.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Film Takes On Zen Qualitiesnew
Difficult life lessons prove beautiful in Kim Ki-duk's meditative tale.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
MaryAnn Johanson |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Seacrest, Out!
On-Air With Ryan Seacrest canceled; national holiday declared.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Walken in L.A.
Tom Cruise tries to bring philosophical hit man panache to Michael Mann's stylish Collateral.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
Shark and Awe
A little nerve-wracking real-life terror carries Open Water only so far.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Burning Bridges
All hail Jeff Bridges -- the new Greatest Living American Actor -- in The Door in the Floor.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
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
