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2010
Nov
11
 
 
Besides giving us perhaps one of the great literary titles for a TV show, David Cross's The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret has also given us the next great cringe-comedy character, no-holds-barred indie-style, on IFC...he's given us a schlubby office temp and habitual liar who's never been out of Portland, Oregon, yet by accident finds his way into a senior sales position and very quickly, he realizes he is in way, way over his head, and has to go on with it, or admit failure -- worst, to himself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
10
 
 
Just a quick follow-up to the new Conan O'Brien TBS talk show status. Had the show he delivered Tuesday night run instead as the Monday back-to-TV premiere, my review would have been substantially more positive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
9
 
 
I expected more, and less, out of Conan O'Brien's new Conan TBS talk show than he delivered in Monday's premiere. More, because with months to prepare, the opening and prepared bits should have been sharper. And less, because I hoped, without the constraints of trying to please most of the people most of the time on NBC's The Tonight Show, he'd be freer to be himself...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
8
 
 
Monday night at 11 ET, with the premiere of Conan, Conan O'Brien steps into the spotlight of a TV talk show for the third time. And whether or not this time's the charm, it is, for the first time, the one where we'll see him at his most undiluted... It's not that O'Brien, in his previous incarnations, lacked conviction or wit. I was at the NBC press conference where Conan O'Brien first met the press in 1993, introduced as David Letterman's successor on Late Night. The first volley from reporter
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
5
 
 
David wrote about TVWW being launched three years earlier on Nov. 5, 2007, the day the television writers went on strike -- and one reader wrote back, "I get so much more enjoyment from television since I started visiting this site a couple years ago. So many of my favorite shows are ones that I would have never tried at all..."
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
5
 
 
So "Undercovers" joins the canceled class of freshmen 2010 after NBC announced it's ordering no more episodes after the first 13 run out. No big surprise, really -- J.J. Abrams' Wednesday night afterthought suffered from little things like no chemistry, dopey stories, and an inexplicable misreading of how to recreate an espionage romp...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
4
 
 
Lacking a season of Rescue Me on DVD? Thursday's the day to pick it up -- Just $15 at Amazon for any of the FX drama's five complete-season sets...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
4
 
 
Unappreciated at Emmy time and under-seen on HBO, The Larry Sanders Show only grows in stature as time marches on through the late-night talk TV minefield. All 89 episodes are now available via Shout! Factory, the video curator whose restoration projects and dedication to both the great and the bizarre merit yet another full-throated shout-out...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
4
 
 
This is a grab straight from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs. Set your clocks for "ridiculous" time and get ready to watch Tiger Woods take one last swipe at dragging his season from the wreckage of 2010. His chance for redemption starts at midnight ET Thursday and extends to 4 a.m. Friday on The Golf Channel for round one of The World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions tournament...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Nov
3
 
 
It may be hyperbole, but it also may be true. Sunday nights, at this point in the fall 2010 TV season, may be the richest one-stop shopping source for quality television in history. This occurred to me, the last few weeks, when I was selecting five shows to highlight as the Sunday BEST BETS, and rejecting as many excellent TV shows as I accepted...