POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Now it gets serious, or at least as serious as you can get about TV. While the fall 2000 season has already kicked in on The WB and UPN (you’re forgiven for not noticing), the so-called “real” networks are finally trotting out some of...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Frequency (New Line, PG-13) A mysterious ham radio sends Dennis Quaid back in time to bond with Dad, prevent a murder and catch Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe doing the humpty dance at Motel 6. Special guest appearance by time-travel scientists Mr. Peabody...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Attention Tube Town dead-pool players: This week’s edition of The Only TV Column That Matters® is a roundup of all the fall 2000 season premieres left to come. Death Watch™ ratings: Higher the score, sooner it’s canceled—hip...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Right about now is the point in the new television season when so-called TV critics, dizzy from exhaustion after spending months dragging their enormous asses off the coach to change the network preview tapes in their VCRs, start coasting. They don’t...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The sad fact: There just isn’t much locally produced television programming covering local entertainment. Plenty of news and politics, sure, but when was the last time you saw your favorite hometown band/artist/comedian/whatever on the tube? Probably...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Continuing on from our last episode, The Only TV Column That Matters® now dives headlong into the new network weekend shows for the upcoming fall 2000-2001 season. The biggest diff this year? ABC has finally 86ed its “TGI Friday” kiddie...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - As difficult as it may be to believe, not everyone loves The Only TV Column That Matters® as much as Tube Town fan Sarah and her circle of lawyer-lady pals. She calls City Weekly whenever the column doesn’t run (like the week of July 28, for...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Romeo Must Die (Warner Bros., R) Romeo (Jet Li) gets hot ’n’ groiny with a mobster’s daughter Juliet (Aaliyah), then proceeds to open several cans of kung-fu whoop-ass on every sucker in the Bay Area. The most faithful adaptation of...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Credit must go to Comedy Central’s Daily Show With Jon Stewart for perfectly summing up CBS’ inexplicable hit, Survivor: “excretainment.” Turn a video camera on a pile of crap sitting on the floor, put it on TV and millions of...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - As strange as it may seem to those on the elder edge of Generation X, some people have no idea that The X-Men began as a Marvel comic book in the ’60s. Their only reference point is the ’90s Fox animated series. The new live-action X-Men movie,...