AltWeeklies Wire
RNC Report: GOP-TVnew
Stuck inside Republican hell with the ‘fair and balanced’ Fox News Channel.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Film Looks at Mexican-Americans Soldiersnew
Most recent documentaries examine the politics of war rather than look at the people who actually fight. But filmmaker Charley Trujillo opens "Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam" (PBS, Aug. 31, 10 p.m.) with a story about picking cotton with his parents after he returned from the Vietnam War.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
08-26-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Video Jockey Spreads Word About Fledgling Music Channelnew
Marianela Pereyra, host of the program Daily Download, came to South Beach to promote the fast-rising 24-hour music channel. Fuse TV competes with MTV by sticking to a strict diet of hip-hop, rock and Latin music video programming.
Miami New Times |
Mosi Reeves |
08-23-2004 |
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
Networks Launch Two Spouse-Swapping Showsnew
ABC claims that Fox's "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy" (Tuesdays, 8 p.m.) ripped off its upcoming "Wife Swap." But perhaps both networks' execs caught the episode of "Chappelle's Show" when the husbands of white and black families traded households.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
View Masters: MK12 Creates Kansas City's Coolest Exportsnew
The five partners in MK12 have spent the past several years earning an international reputation as purveyors of trendsetting computer-generated realities.
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
Jesse James' Public Relations Team Tougher Than Himnew
The only thing tougher than West Coast Chopper head Jesse James is the post-industrial grease monkey's public-relations team.
Tags: TV
The Real Rupert: Nice Guys Sometimes Finish Firstnew
Forget "The Bachelor," ditch "Average Joe" and fire "The Apprentice" -- "Survivor" is the granddaddy of all reality shows. And of the more than 100 players who have tried to "outwit, outplay and outlast" each other during the show's four-year run, by far the most popular (and definitely the most recognizable) is a burly, bearded, tie-dyed Hoosier named Rupert.
Tags: TV
Cary Grant Revisited in a New Documentary for Turner Classicsnew
Perhaps the most entertaining enigma ever created from the Hollywood system, Cary Grant gets his deserved due in this documentary from writer-director Robert Trachtenberg that's as breezy, ebullient and mysterious as its subject.
Syracuse New Times |
Bill DeLapp |
08-07-2004 |
TV
Rug Burnnew
For a quarter-century and counting, ex-high school teacher Ron Jeremy -- Guinness World Record holder for most adult-film appearances -- has lent his wit and wiener to scores of cinematic gems. But the porn man's recent star turn in a 30-second television commercial for a St. Louis adult sex-accessory retailer may be the most controversial entry in his oeuvre to date.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-04-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Seacrest, Out!
On-Air With Ryan Seacrest canceled; national holiday declared.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Critics battle for 'Ultimate Film Fanatic'new
Creative Loafing's film critics Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster are put to the test in three rounds of a version of IFC's "Ultimate Film Fanatic" game show.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-29-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV, Ultimate Film Fanatic
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
