POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Wouldn’t it be great if you could just replace certain people in your cast, er, personal circle? You’re going about your business one episode, uh, day, and all of the lame characters, er, coworkers and friends who’ve been dragging your...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When an E! True Hollywood Story gives you perspective on your own life, it could be a sign that you’re watching far to much television.Tube Stopsn Thursday, Sept. 6: 2001 Video Music Awards (MTV, 7 p.m.) If Gorillaz’ clip for “Clint...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The WB isn’t known for its lasting sitcoms—not since the late, great, five-season Unhappily Ever After was canceled a couple of years ago, anyway. I still cry about that one … damnant quod non intelligunt, Mr. Floppy!Tube StopsThursday,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - TV critics never know when to just shut the hell up, do they? How many more times can you have it beaten into your skull that The Sopranos is the single greatest achievement in the history of mankind, or that you’re a complete fuggin’ moron...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Needless to say, recent events have knocked the fall TV schedule totally out of whack. Premiere dates have been moved back, terrorism-tinged plots are being reworked, and no one in America wanted to watch last week’s sizzling finale of Big Brother...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Not many of us can say we feel the pain of a mega-salaried network president and chief executive, now can we? My shout-out is thus: UPN honcho Dean Valentine, I know exactly what you’re going through.Tube Stops Thursday, Sept. 20: Big Brother 2...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Smell that? It’s another round of Mark Burnett-produced “reality”—this time billed as Survivor: Africa (CBS; debuts Thursday, Oct. 11), as if you didn’t know. Sixteen more young, pretty people (and a couple of token non-pretty,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Screw the Emmys. By now, it should be obvious to even the CBS geniuses who green-lighted a depressing Friday-night “comedy” about a single dad in midlife crisis working at a rundown community center (that would be Danny, your first cancellation...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Midnight: What do you think of when you read the phrase “groundbreaking television”? If you mentally answered “Action” or “Baywatch Nights,” you’re exactly why the PR department at Fox is carefully referring to...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The dangers of following the herd should be apparent, even to the herd. But, in their never-ending pursuit of “fitting in,” “being accepted” and other conformist crapola, the mindless citizens of America are led through the primrose...