This past Wednesday, the TV series MODERN FAMILY came to an end, after 11 seasons and 250 episodes, with the 2 final episodes aired back to back. The series debuted in September 2009, and a month later I wrote a post about it: MODERN FAMILY on ABC. It’s interesting to look back at that post…
Category: Television
TWIN PEAKS and The Changing State Of Television
David Lynch’s sublime soap opera TWIN PEAKS returns tonight. Giving all of us original fans hope that we’ll finally get an answer to the question we’ve been wondering about for 25 years now. I was a Twin Peaks fan since the beginning, I remember watching the premier and being entranced. That first season was incredible…
OITNB Star Jamie Denbo, 43, Told She’s ‘Too Old’ to Play a 57-Year-Old Man’s Wife
Jamie Denbo is speaking out against sexist age restrictions in Hollywood. The actress, known for her role as Ginsberg on Orange Is the New Black, posted a series of tweets Wednesday after she was told she was past the age limit for a role. “I was just informed that at the age of 43, I…
THE ARRANGEMENT
Written and Created by Jonathan Abrahams Directed by Ken Olin I just finished watching this first episode. I’ve been looking forward to this series ever since I first heard about it last year, as it stars Josh Henderson, an actor whom I’ve written about before. And while I wish things had worked out with the…
My Brother Interviewed Eric Braeden (aka VICTOR NEWMAN) Again!
My brother James Lott Jr. (yes, we’re full-brothers with different last names, it’s a long story) interviewed legendary actor Eric Braeden yesterday. This is the second time he’s had the privilege of interviewing Mr. Braeden. I’ve linked to that first interview before, and if you’ve watched it you’ll see that at the end that Mr.…
Why I’m Not Watching UNDERGROUND
Underground set a record as WGN’s highest performing original series ever in its launch last night. The 10 PM airing drew 1.4M total viewers to rank No. 5 among all scripted series premieres on cable this broadcast TV season. The premiere’s 585K adults 25-54 ranks No. 7 in the TV season that started last September.…
Yeah, I watched “Prison Wives Club”
I wasn’t planning to watch this, I just happened to be scanning channels the other night and landed on this show just as it was beginning, and found myself sitting through the entire episode. This is a new “reality” show on the Lifetime network, which focuses on the lives of a group of women who…
WHAT’S ON TELEVISION?
Got my special J.R. Ewing Bourbon last Friday. That’s also they day it was announced that TNT canceled Dallas. While it’s true that I wasn’t happy with the way the show was written, and was pretty much just watching it out of habit, I’m not exactly happy that it’s over, nor sad. I’m just kind…
THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO
I just read yesterday that a reboot of this show is in the works. This was of my favorite TV shows as a wee lad. Running originally for 3 seasons, from 1981 to 1983, on ABC and then airing in reruns in syndication for years after that, the film starred William Katt as Ralph Hinkley…
Yeah, I Watched “Dating Naked”
This is the latest “reality” show on VH1. On the surface it’s a typical TV dating show. Two strangers, a man and a woman (I wonder if they’ll ever do same-gender?) fly to an exotic island for 4 days where the first three days they go on a “date” with a different person, including each…
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
As I type this its about 10 minutes away from the final episode of How I Met Your Mother. I didn’t watch this film from the beginning, I only started a few years ago when it began airing in syndication. A local station started playing it Mon-Fri at 7pm, and I began watching it and…
THE ONE WHERE I TRY TO DEFEND TYLER PERRY (AND OPRAH)
The, I think 4th and 5th episodes of Tyler Perry’s new soap opera, The Haves And The Have Nots, which debuted on the Oprah Winfrey Network last month, come on tonight. I’m not planning on watching it, I’d watched the first two episodes, not because I am a Tyler Perry fan (I’m not), but because,…
R.I.P. JEANNE COOPER
Jeanne Cooper, who played Katherine Chancellor, the “Dame of Genoa City,” on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. She was 84. Her death was confirmed by her son, actor Corbin Bernsen, on his Twitter account. “Mom passed this morning,” Bernsen posted. “She was in peace and without fear.” Cooper had been suffering from an…
THE SHAHS OF SUNSET and THE SUPER BOWL
As I type this is 10am and I’m watching a rerun of SHAHS OF SUNSET on Bravo, because my new favorite “reality” TV star is Mercedes Javid aka MJ. After I posted MJ IN A BIKINI last night, the woman herself retweeted it on Twitter, and thanked me for it, and within an half hour…
MJ IN A BIKINI
No, I don’t mean Michael Jackson, I mean Mercedes Javid, aka “MJ”, one of the “stars” of the “reality” TV series SHAHS OF SUNSET. Last night my brother and I were talking about celebrities, and some of the unfair criticism that they get, especially when it comes to women and the way they look. And…
MTV’S “FRIENDZONE”
The other day I woke up early and, while still laying in bed, I flipped on the TV and ended up catching a couple of episodes of this new MTV show called Friendzone. The premise is that it’s a show where Someone surprises a platonic friend of theirs, by telling them that they have romantic…
THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF “REALITY” TELEVISION SHOWS
I can’t stand the Kardashians. I’d even go so far as to say that I hate them. And I realize that my hatred of them is completely irrational, since they have no effect on my life and I could just choose to ignore them (which I mostly do), but their very existence, and their status…
SAVING CNN
Last month, internet radio talk show host Tom Leykis published an interesting blog, in response to a new story about problems at CNN. And he came up with an interesting solution: How about repositioning CNN as “Cable’s Only All-News Network?” (After all, Fox “News” is only AM Tea Party talk radio on television and MSNBC…
ANGER MANAGEMENT (the new Charlie Sheen TV Show)
They premiered the first two episodes of this show tonight, and I watched them. I wanted to like it, really. I’ve written before how it’s easy to forget that Charlie Sheen is actually a really good actor. And I tend to root for the underdog, the person everyone else is rooting against (which is also…
ROB SCHNEIDER’S RIDICULOUSLY “RACIST” NEW SITCOM
So, over the past few days, I’ve been seeing commercials for this new sitcom starring Rob Schneider called ROB. The premise? Schneider plays a White man who marries a Latina (who, it should be noted, as is the case with many sitcom couples, is WAY too attractive for him). And, apparently, the whole concept of…
THE NEW TWO AND A HALF MEN
I watched the new Two And A Half Men Monday night. I know I said I would stop, but I end up watching by default, as I’m now hooked on the show that immediately precedes it, 2 Broke Girls. It’s not the funniest show in the world but, dang, co-star Kat Dennings is smokin’! I…
CHARLIE SHEEN…
Y’know, one thing that I think is easy to forget, due to all of the controversy and personal scandals, is that Sheen is actually a pretty darn good actor. I’ve made the observation before that, if he’d made a few better decisions in choosing his roles (& controlling his personal life, of course) I could…
THE GAME
I don’t think I watched it that much when it was first running on UPN/CW, but after it was canceled I started catching the reruns on BET. I found it to be a rather clever show. The focus was on the fictional NFL team, The San Diego Sabers. Derwin was a new recruit, who was…
KEEPING AWAY FROM THE KARDASHIANS
Y’know, in the good ol’ days, when someone would become well-known due to being connected to some scandal or tragedy, they would eventually fade away from the public consciousness. They’d get their talk show appearances, and maybe have some cameos in a couple of sitcoms, b-movies, or music videos, but then the novelty would wear…
R.I.P. STEPHEN J. CANNELL
I just read that Stephen J. Cannell died of Melanoma. Dang, such a shame. Coincidentally, I was just re-watching his and the cast member’s interviews on my Greatest American Hero dvd last week. That man was involved in so many great TV shows over the years. He was a true talent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Cannell#Later_life_and_career
