It is not that I harbor ill will toward the television industry—far from it. Rather, I’d hoped that some of the desperation of recent years might be enough to create the momentum needed for some real change. This remains a seriously strange way to allocate billions of dollars.
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24 crosses the finish line with a return to form - and further resources to question and negotiate its assumed reactionary politics.
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It's time to let go.
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The upfronts may seem like a vestige of a dying regime. However, given that this is also an era of brands - i.e., hot shows, and in theory, hot networks - the upfronts also serve to launch anticipation on multiple fronts. Derek Kompare takes a look at the NBC upfronts in this media context.
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What Summit Entertainment fails to see is that by courting male viewers, they are devaluing Twilight’s devoted female fans and missing an incredible opportunity to develop the terms for future female franchises.
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Three characters make fate-changing choices, as we're back in the contemporary timeline(s) to set-up the endgame.
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Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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Crowe is consciously attempting to rebrand his image - illuminating the 'softer,' emotional side of the hard body - just in time for a massive publicity tour for Robin Hood.
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I feel like the “powers that Glee” (PTG) are trying to combat complaints of minimal plot development. After last week’s most excellent narrative-filled musical numbers, my hopes were high. It looked like they might pull it off, but then it became Glee meets Friday Night Lights. Say it ain't so!
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It might be the most divisive, bold, and risky episode in series history. What can we make of it the morning after?
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The British General Election of 2010 likely will be seen as a decisive moment in the country’s democratic history, not just because of its unusually messy result, but also because it heralded a new era in the mediation of electoral politics.
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Tonight, when Betty White hosts Saturday Night Live, American network television will be stepping outside of its comfort zone, by featuring someone a whole 5.5 times as old as Justin Bieber.
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Music videos are alive and well on the internet, and Miley Cyrus' latest - for her new single,"Can't Be Tamed" - represents a significant rhetorical moment in her star persona (and Disney's pockets).
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I think this is the essence of Glee’s appeal: It “mashes” together the old and the new, the shallow and the deep, and in the end asks us to appreciate that our lives are much like popular culture.
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Returning from a week off, let's get right to the carnage.
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