Fox’s new big-money summer quiz Spin The Wheel suggests, in its title, an embrace of game show basics. As TV spectacles go, what is more straightforward than Jane Citizen spinning a wheel of cash? “Everyone knows how to spin the wheel,” Spin The Wheel executive producer Justin Timberlake observes at the start of each…
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti is about to go on hiatus for a month, so at the production office, we’ve been treating this week’s episode—episode 20!—as our “midseason finale.” To send us into the break with a bang, we headed to CBS Television City in Hollywood, where we spent a day behind the scenes of the…
For The A.V. Club TV show, host John Teti interviewed Rhymefest about the state of music in Chicago. The rapper, writer, and social activist had more to say than we could fit in the episode, so here’s the unabridged conversation in written form, alongside some outtakes. The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti airs Thursday…
For this week’s edition of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—the A.V. Club TV show that I host, as helpfully evinced by the title—we left our Chicago studio behind and traveled to Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This trade show, better known as E3, is the biggest event on the video game calendar, at…
Last year, my A.V. Club colleagues and I surveyed the media landscape and reached a troubling conclusion: There simply aren’t enough television shows. To remedy that shortfall, we’re taking matters into our own hands. We’re launching a TV program called The A.V. Club, which has a nice ring to it. The show premieres…
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
The A.V. Club receives a ludicrous quantity of promotional junk from studio marketing people who are eager to remind us that their movies and TV shows exist. We stockpile these items in our high-security swag vault (read: a rickety bookcase behind Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s desk). Then every December, Josh Modell and John…
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
You may know Jimmy O. Yang as Silicon Valley’s perpetually downtrodden intern, and you may soon know him from the upcoming Mark Wahlberg thriller Patriots Day, which hits theaters in January (not the December release date Jimmy cites during the taping). But if time travel were possible, you’d know him as the guy who…
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
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