POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The television industry as you know it will be forever altered next week, and yet a conspiracy of silence amongst mainstream TV writers has managed to keep the impending broadcast revolution completely secret. Just as the U.S. news media placates the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Puppets live among us, though they prefer to be called Fabricated Americans. The Flesh Man has oppressed them for generations, but the revolution is upon us ... Tube Stops* Thursday, March 21: Leap of Faith (NBC, 7:30 p.m.) Faith gets drunk and flashes...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - On Friday, March 29, ABC announced that it was canceling one of the most poignant, richly-drawn romantic dramas in the history of the known universe, Once & Again. We, the collective O&A fans worldwide, our numbers steadily growing into four digits,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We’re in the middle of TV-Turnoff Week 2002 (April 22-28) and most of you don’t even know it. Don’t you care about The Children? Whenever any group of concerned (read: meddling) citizens who know far better how to run your lives than...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Season Finales are nature’s way of telling you that summer is here and you should really go back outside again—or, as is the case with readers of The Only TV Column That Matters™, splice into the neighbor’s cable, stock the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The moment that changed my mind was when host Zach Galifianakis (no, I can’t pronounce it either—it’s tough enough just to type) talked with ex-Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on the set of his new music video. Lee, apparently,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Friends (NBC; Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m.) Pregnant Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) delivery is excruciatingly painful and dangerously overdue—let the comedy begin! Meanwhile, the gang argues over who’ll get to crack the first “luckiest...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Last week, the five-and-a-half major networks (UPN jokes just never get old) each unveiled their thrilling new schedules for the fall 2002-’03 TV season—and, by exclusion, which of your favorite shows they’d finally put down for dirtnaps....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Never before in entertainment history has there been so many opportunities for the young and marginally talented to show the world how young and marginally talented they are. Blame The Real World for germinating the concept that the teens and twentysomethings...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - That sweet missionary boy from the Mormon epic The Other Side of Heaven starring (and swearing) alongside some bimboid from Troma’s sleaze classic Tromeo & Juliet? On a pay-cable network known primarily for late-night soft porn and Queer as...