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2014
May
1
 
 
NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, is running this 13-minute Craig Ferguson "Best Of" tribute now that the late night talk show host has announced he's stepping down from Late Late Show in December. There are many highlights here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
11
 
 
Here's an example of a TV ad that uses just stock footage to highlight the icons and words we see in commercials...with no product to sell. In other words, it's a prime example of Marshall McLuhan's 1964 maxim that "the medium is the message"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
6
 
 
Mike Judge swung and missed with his reboot of his Beavis and Butthead in 2011, which may have been fortuitous, since it brought him to his new, winning HBO comedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
30
 
 
Mad Men soon returns for its final season in two weeks -- and maybe more interesting even than the saga of self-sabotaging Don Draper, the series may best be remembered as part of an American television evolution that saw enormous changes in what we watch, and how...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
22
 
 
Design and architecture often have been front and center on television over the past decade, due mostly to  waves of popular home improvement shows... the new PBS Cool Spaces takes a lively look at new cutting-edge public buildings...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Mar
20
 
 
The Muppets are going gangbusters in this year’s Muppets Most Wanted, smartly led by Tina Fey in the starring non-Muppet role. It’s Charlie Brown’s turn in 2015 with the upcoming CGI animated big-screen Peanuts feature...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Jan
7
 
 
With police lab forensics as one of the pillars of nightly scripted TV, it’s hard to imagine a time when medical examiners didn’t rule the day...