Showing posts with label TV review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV review. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A word edgewise: “All Night With Joey Reynolds” (part two)

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A few weeks back I wrote about one of the most unusual talk shows to ever appear on commercial TV, All Night with Joey Reynolds . A few week...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The talk show as hallucination: "All Night With Joey Reynolds" (part one)

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We’ve all experienced something like it. You’re up late, you catch something unusual on television, and the next morning you’re not sure whe...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Why is the Oscarcast so horrible, no matter what changes are made?

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It is a truism that the Oscarcast can’t help but suck horribly. No matter what tweaks are put into effect, no matter what technological inno...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

The radiant past returns, for an hour every night

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The Yuletide season weighs heavily upon us all — if depression didn’t exist, the holidays could singlehandedly create it. One cable network,...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Schmaltz in "new" show-biz: the "inartful" Stewart-Colbert rally (part two), and the Maddow-Stewart interview

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NOTE: I wrote this piece a week ago, but decided not to post the second half of it since the story was still “developing.” Last Friday Rache...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Schmaltz in the "new" show-biz: Stewart and Colbert live (part one)

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I think and write a lot about the comedians of yesteryear, and have often talked on the Funhouse TV show and in this blog about watching var...