POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - As of this writing, it’s impossible for The Only TV Column That Matters™ to say who will be the Final Two facing off in the American Idol: The Search For a Superstar (Fox; Tuesday, Sept. 3 and Wednesday, Sept. 4) showdown. Due to our weekly...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - According to industry hype and ink, summer 2002 was all about The Triumph of Reality TV and/or The Uprising of Cable—why has so little been written about the season’s two best reality TV shows, both of which happen to reside on cable? Aside...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Originally, this edition of The Only TV Column That Matters™ was going to be all about the HBO Sunday season premieres of The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Mind of the Married Man. Thing is, the Haughty Brush-Off network almost considered...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - You want crime-drama action? You got it. You want touchy-feely family sitcoms? You got ’em. You want bold, risk-taking television as you’ve never seen it before? Liar. The Only TV Column That Matters™ wouldn’t exist without...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Good Morning Miami (NBC; Thursday, Sept. 26, 8:30 p.m.): NBC describes Good Morning Miami’s fictional show-within-the-show as the worst a.m. TV train wreck in America … out of respect for City Weekly pal Mitch English, no Daily Buzz jokes,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - After a drink or eight, there’s nothing like the sight of a couple of men beating the hell out of each other—unless, of course, it’s a couple of women beating the hell out of each other. Top it all off with a wet T-shirt contest, and...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The deep-pockets corporate juggernaut that is Ron’s Tube Town of Apopka, Fla., proved too formidable a foe: The Rock Springs River inner-tubing giant effectively out-maneuvered this column’s defense team last week, finally bringing to an end...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Talk radio is the lone conservative outpost of the Liberal Media, the Ice Station Zebra from whence right-thinking yakkers can (and do) bitch incessantly about the Liberal Media. Sure, there are a few left-leaning talk-radio hosts on the air, but they’re...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Dr. Phil McGraw is only here because of The Oprah—before she found this loudmouthed cue ball in 1998, he was nobody. Now, thanks to four years of guesting on The Oprah’s TV show, he’s a “life strategies and relationship expert,”...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - At the monthly Tube Town fan-club meeting last week (held, as always, at the exclusive Bling-Bling Lounge in the Italian district of Draper), a guest put forth the question, “So, how do you feel about what your competition has to say about the new...