Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network, 9:30 PM Monday) Local legend Guy Fieri travels the country looking for great food at reasonable prices, I am a regular viewer, and I make episodes like this week’s that feature Bay Area restaurants a top priority; if it weren't for DDD I would [...]
Madonna still wins the award for best opening, and weird as it may have begun, Lady Gaga’s opening performance was pretty freaking awesome. The woman is crazy, but she sells crazy well, and she can back it up with her talent! I dozed three times during Justin…zzz…Justin…zzz…Justin Timberlake’s performance – [...]
This is the third time I’ve mentioned the VMA in a blog post this week. Why? Because unlike many awards shows they never seem to disappoint at creating spectacle; there are amazing performances we still talk about years later, groan inducing moments of unabashed ego, and unhinged weirdness we can’t [...]
Friday - We Were There: The March On Washington – An Oral History (CNN, 10 PM). If you want to hear about real life drama, sacrifice, courage and commitment, tune in for firsthand accounts of event organizers and participants. I watched CNN’s recent program on Richard Nixon and found it [...]
If you, like me, recorded the True Blood finale but unlike me have not yet watched your recording, read no further – SPOILER ALERT!.....
Fantomworks, (Discovery, 10PM Monday) Full disclosure, I am a “car guy” and this program is great if you, like me, love cars; the cool thing is if you aren’t much of a car person this show is still pretty good. Fantomworks, unlike many programs of this ilk, is not full [...]
You don't need to be a fan of any particular show or have a certain TV-watching philosophy. But you know the good stuff when you see it, and you cringe at the bad stuff.
When it comes to Revolution, the new much-hyped NBC end-of-the-world series that debuted this week, there's only so much belief to be suspended. Like a few other such shows in recent years (think, "Falling Skies, " but with a weaker cast and no aliens), something really, really bad has happened, [...]
'Mad Men,' 'American Horror Story' lead Emmy nods; Hugh Laurie and 'American Idol' are omissions LOS ANGELES — "Mad Men," a piercingly bleak portrait of a 1960s American anti-hero, earned a leading 17 Emmy nominations Thursday and the chance to set a new record as the most-honored drama in television [...]
Not too long ago, summer used to be the place where TV reruns would live, along with lots of lame basic cable (and premium-channel) dreck that was barely watchable. Then that changed as shows like The Sopranos, Mad Men and others all gained big followings and ran whenever their networks [...]
After giving the bunnies the boot earlier in the week, NBC canceled “Free Agents”. Luckier series: Comedies “Up All Night,” “2 Broke Girls” and, unfortunately, “Whitney” have been renewed. Hopefully, “Simpsons” won’t suffer a similar fate. The voice actors and 20th Century Fox Television are haggling over money, and the [...]
OMG! Must See The X Factor: New Simon Cowell show continues tonight with hopefully even more great talent. Last week, in amongst the worst singers and dancers to ever grace a stage, there were some absolutely amazing singers varying in age from 13 to 50. This show is worth your [...]
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Greetings fellow television fans, fanatics, addicts and enthusiasts; welcome to our blog about TV for the Press Democrat Online. Together we will keep up with what’s coming up, examine new and existing programs in depth and from time to time take a moment to appreciate programs from the past. In addition, we’ll delve into the deep corners of Netflix and Hulu to recommend shows from around the world. My hope is together we will find enough quality programming to fill our TV viewing schedules and never again utter the words, “All these channels and nothing to watch!”
— Wallace Poulter