Posts Tagged ‘ TV ’

Part one of a two-part interview with TV critic Alan Sepinwall on his popular history of the past fifteen years in television drama.
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Onscreen violence against women has made several otherwise compelling programs unwatchable.
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Grandpa Peacock may be floundering, but the kids—MSNBC and NBC Sports Network—are holding their own.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, like The Wizard of Oz, represents Kansas monochromatically to highlight the queer and colorful world of Oz. But as far as Hollywood's concerned, it's Kansas that's queer.
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Why kickstarting Veronica Mars was not simply a procedural act, but rather a social experience awakening, mobilizing and monetizing fan cultures in real time.
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While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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Netflix's willingness to give the audience control over serial viewing challenges assumptions that the best way to control program costs is to eke out episodes over time, measuring demand, and then raising and lowering prices in response.
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This wasn't such an interesting Super Bowl in terms of commercials, but one spot for the Ram truck line stood out to us. Was there an ad that seemed particularly notable to you?
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from The CW.
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from ABC.
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from CBS.
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The referee lockout has been resolved, but we would do well do consider its broader implications before we allow it to recede into the past.
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Last week’s South Park episode, “Jewpacabra,” is just the latest in the program’s intermittent efforts to use their medium to introduce otherwise silenced elements of society and culture into the public sphere. Though packaged in exactly the sort of silliness and Jew jokiness that the title implies, the episode actually features one...
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The licensing process for the HBO series highlights the challenge of balancing a level of control over the quality of products related to the series with efforts to both monetize and expand its audience.
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