If you want popular you need to go to Big Bang Theory, NCIS and The Bachelor (shudder).

I recall hearing some years ago that NPR's Morning Edition has six times the listenership as Fox News has viewership. But all anyone ever talks about is Fox News.

When casting infants one needs twins due to child labor laws, especially if shooting extends beyond a certain number of hours. One supposes the number of actor mixed race Pakistani/Ashkenazi infant twins in NYC might be in rather limited supply.

I expected nothing from Trial and Error and was frankly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The networks seemed surprised too since they did their best to burn through as many episodes in as short a time as possible. Its as though they were trying to purposefully kill the show but failed.

Lets hope it only brings a *little* 30 Rock spirit back. Because I didn't really like that show after their first two seasons. I often have difficulty sitting through humor from old SNL alums, they tend to learn bad writing habits from that show.

A few days ago I randomly hit on an unknown show, watched it for a few seconds. The main character said something inane then I jumped in my chair when a loud grating laugh track unexpectedly kicked in, signaling that the line was supposed to have been funny. Let us take a moment to thank Powerless for NOT being a…

Everything is relative. Compared to Last Man Standing it was frickin' Hamlet.

AV Club ended the reviews on the week that they juggled the air dates so a much later episode aired in an early time slot. That told you there's not going to be an extended story arc to follow, each episode resets sitcom-style. Which makes review and analysis a bit pointless. Even the cheesiest sitcoms come with…

This is the US of A. There's a consistent inverse relation between show quality and ratings. Most of the past shows we loved tended to be the ones that were balancing on the knife edge of cancellation. The only thing that saves networks from irrelevance is they do occasionally hold onto a product just because of the…

Christina Kirk and Jennie Pierson (Emily and Wendy) were the MVPs of the show. No criticism for them or the writing for those two characters. Except it sometimes seemed like they had been imported from another better show to this one.

Hah, I had commented on the damned closeups but deleted the line before hitting the 'post' button. So it wasn't just me after all.

I'm one of the few, apparently, who kind'a liked the show and watched it. But something was just off. The set design for the 'office' was ugly, dark and unconvincing. The lighting was harsh. The exterior world barely existed. They insisted on applying makeup to Hudgens that was two layers too thick and two shades too…

Not exactly what I was expecting (why doesn't he look like Bernie Madoff?). I do recall him from his years of work on 'All My Children', back when I was working night jobs and watching daytime TV.

It sounds like the show's going to hinge on whether the music is awful or not. Archie in 'Riverdale' is an example of the dangers of attempting unironic earnest music on TV. If they're satirizing the genre with intentionally laughable lyrics and deliberately cringeworthy music it might work. If they interrupt the…

I can think of few once-popular movies this side of "Airport" that have sunk so low in people's estimation than "Avatar". If only he hadn't named that mineral "unobtainium".

I started out not caring about podcasts, then I happened to catch the same celebrity interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today Show then the same day chatting on a podcast. Compared to the podcasters talking substantively, Lauer appeared to be a shallow, passive aggressive idiot. The corporate media seemed entirely…

George Clooney is Baio's Hollywood contemporary. How would George Clooney have made a similar statement? Probably lamenting the toll addiction plays in the lives of so many good people in this country and calling for awareness and compassion on the topic. You know, everything Scott Baio DIDN'T say.

Except for Keith Richards who will live forever.

There's a growing list of aging, bitter "once popular in the 80s" guys who now seems to now be vying for the title of Hollywood's biggest asshole. Though it will be hard to top Steven Seagal fleeing the US with a sex slavery charge hanging over his head to take up with Vladimir Putin. Heck, I only recently discovered…

She cleans up well.