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2010
Apr
1
 
 
Not that I want to be a guy, but I do want to be as smart as my favorite TV blogger, Jaime Weinman. Or should I say, as observant -- Jaime elucidates things in shows, in trends, in tropes, even in shot styles and set design, that I just kick myself for not being able to address as clearly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
30
 
 
America's been adapting British series for decades. All in the Family came from Til Death Do Us Part. Three's Company was originally Man About the House. NBC's The Office owes its existence to Ricky Gervais' BBC The Office. Dramas like Life on Mars, Cracker, Eleventh Hour and Queer as Folk started in England, too. Now it's going the other way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
24
 
 
Robert Culp might well be the poster boy for not knowing what we've got till it's gone. His blend of relaxed amiability, authority, smarts and relaxed wit have rarely been matched on TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
24
 
 
The god of special effects blesses us Friday night. Ray Harryhausen inspired generations of movie makers with his stop-motion mastery from the 1950s to the 1980s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
22
 
 
Mad music, mad design, mad remake -- this is one mad week on TV DVD...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
10
 
 
I've been meaning to address is something I've noticed in season sets for vintage series from 40-50 years back. They've got as many as 39 episodes per season, compared to today's 22-ish. (Or on cable, 13-ish.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
10
 
 
Ginger Rogers is in the money for St. Patrick's Day. Turner Classic Movies' salute to this versatile actress continues with a double feature of her snappy Warner Bros. Depression musicals 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933. But first, on Tuesday night, TCM's March salute to Akira Kurosawa spotlights his crime thrillers -- a side of the director little known to Americans who think first of his period samurai epics...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
9
 
 
Now you know how TV shows manage to afford the cinematic look of all that location shooting we've been seeing. They don't...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
8
 
 
Sometimes you just need to watch something awful. Shut down your brain. Let the recycled plots, banal dialogue and bad acting wash over you. Maybe even mock it madly, MST3K-style...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
2
 
 
Just like the Super Bowl, there's always overkill when it comes to the Oscars. Which take place this coming Sunday (8:30 p.m. ET on ABC), in case you missed the 7,000 promos, ads, pre-shows and other assorted hype/hoopla...