POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Oh, we Gen-Xers are a self-absorbed clique of ironic hipsters, aren’t we? Same goes for you Gen-Yers and whatever the hell cutely tagged-and-bagged demographic comes after that—we’re all just sooo cool. What with our MTV, our MP3s, our...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Aside from “Is Buffy dead?” (No, Vampire Slayer is just moving to UPN, which is nearly the same thing) and “Where the hell is Nyk Fry’s Fluid Television?” (The brain trust at KUTV 2 canceled it—more on this in a future...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Man, do I feel like an ass for making fun of all those morons who get sucked into reality-TV shows—OK, not really, but it is kind of ironic that I myself am now a reality-TV addict.Forget Survivor: Big Brother, The Real World, Road Rules, Becoming,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I am not, repeat, not upgrading to digital cable. No matter how hard the customer service rep at AT&T Broadband sells it on the phone (“OK, OK, OK, how about this: We’ll throw in free Basic service, cable Internet and a puppy if you subscribe...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There I was last week, fresh off my high of calling the end of VH1’s Bands on the Run absolutely on-the-money (Flickerstick won, just as I said they would—inyerface!), when I found out another vaguely music-related reality-TV fave of mine,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - You know professional wrestling is in dire straits when City Weekly honcho and rasslin’ aficionado John Saltas couldn’t care less about what’s going on anymore.Tube Stops Thursday, July 26: Night Visions (Fox, 8 p.m.) A psychiatrist...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The late-night people get no love, no encouragement to change their vampiric ways. As one of those nocturnal freaks who can’t even imagine going to bed before midnight, I’m well aware of this—as one of those nocturnal freaks who watches...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Talk about a perfectly named show: The WB’s Dead Last (debuting Tuesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.), about a touring rock trio that sees ghosts, isn’t on the network’s fall schedule. They probably won’t even air all 12 episodes, which have...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Last season, the geniuses at ABC were so convinced that Regis Philbin and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? could carry the entire schedule that they launched a mere four new shows in the fall—quick, can anyone name ’em? Of course not, that’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Many, many people get to see new fall television pilots before you do, Joe Sixpack, and they’re not all elite TV writers.Tube StopsThursday, Aug. 23: Lifegame (TNN, 6 p.m.) Series Debut: Audience members narrate their own life stories while improv...