Pseudoscientific analysis. When reporters start probing for hidden messages in Obama’s signature, listening for stress in a pilot’s last communication, or revealing personality through posture, they’ve stopped reporting news and...
I didn’t watch Gilligan’s Island for Gilligan. I watched it for The Professor. Actor Russell Johnson, in character as The Professor, was my first television crush. I liked his haircut. I liked his simple, button-down shirt, open at the...
The bearded, backwoodsy Duck Dynasty families — grizzly as bears, swaddled in camo, and slathered with face paint — are essentially actors playing roles scripted and designed by A&E’s producers. Prior to the show, the...
This excerpt from “The Revolution Will Be Televised” proves what I suspected all along: not only did the writers and producers of LOST have no idea what the island was when they made it up … they also had no idea why the series...
Here's an episode of an online dance show unlike anything you've probably ever seen: While never a fan of "Dancing with the Stars," we've enjoyed several seasons of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance." By virtue of their format, though, both shows...
I admit it. I'm a weather whore. Storm clouds turn me on. I could watch thunder and lightning for hours. When weather sirens go off, I run toward them. I have an innocent but embarrassing crush on those guys on Storm Chasers. (That would...
Friends with one of those persnickety DirecTV DVRs will soon be able to replace them with a shiny new Tivo that records and plays back television in the way that God intended. Read the announcement on Engadget: ... a new HD DirecTV TiVo will be...
Just as soon as Tivo can suck down enough of the program to give us a commercial buffer zone, Clyde and I pile onto the couch for our weekly visit with Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson. About fifteen minutes into the show, Brenda Lee, struck hard by...
On So You Think You Can Dance, young female dancers frequently audition in tight, form-fitting, or revealing outfits. It's not uncommon for the girls to display bare midriffs or perform in little more than a bikini top. The judges take this in...
That's it. No more Big Brother for me. When Big Brother premiered years ago, Clyde and I missed out completely on the entire phenomenon. Friends W & D raved about the show, but after watching one episode, we felt no real attachment to it. As...