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TV & Games

We Care a Lot

David E. Kelley’s Boston Public and Ally McBeal are back in session, for better and worse.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Fun factoid: The creations of Hollywood wonder boy David E. Kelley can usually be summed up in seven easy words.Tube StopsThursday, Oct. 25: VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards (VH1, 8 p.m.) They put off the Emmys, but this goes on? Possible scenario: “I’m...

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Hair of the Frog

The WB gets spooky ’n’ kooky with Kevin Williamson’s Glory Days.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Going from playing Jennifer Aniston’s mop-headed personal assistant/boy toy on Friends to starring in your own post-Dawson’s Creek drama is a hell of a demotion, but at least actor Eddie Cahill got a snazzy new Frog Network haircut out of...

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Down With NBC

NBC makes up for the sins of Emeril and inside Schwartz with Imagine That... almost.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Emeril is dead. OK, not supastar Food Network Chef Emeril Lagasse himself, just his horrific self-titled NBC sitcom—insert obligatory “Bam!” joke here. Lagasse is every bit as alive ‘n’ tainted as failed post-Seinfeld alum...

TV & Games

The Dick Zone

Submitted for your approval: An alternate-reality version of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2002.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - For maximum dramatic/comedic effect, this episode of Tube Town should be read at approximately 11 p.m. during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2002 (ABC, Monday Dec. 31).Tube StopsThursday, Dec. 27: Greatest TV Moments: Hip-Hop (VH1,...

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Stiff Competition

HBO’s Six Feet Under and CBS’s CSI: Making dead people cool again.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Here’s a happy little holiday thought: You’re going to die. Don’t know when, don’t know how, but it’s going to happen. One second you could be driving along in your brand-new hearse singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”...

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Grate Pretender

TNT’s The Pretender: Island of the Haunted finally answers the question... OK, not really.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Things were going so well. After the cult sci-fi series The Pretender was abruptly canceled by NBC last year—with loose ends aplenty left flickering in the wind—TNT stepped in and agreed to produce a series of cable movies to tie things up...

TV & Games

Warm Fuzzy Friday

Providence, That’s Life, Once & Again - is this what chicks really want?

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Ask any woman I know—I know nothing about women. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Zero. As far as I’m concerned, they’re an alien race that no amount of insightful Maxim or Gear magazine articles will ever explain. Believe you me, I’ve read ’em...

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Bemoan the Music

Television concerts reach sucktastic new levels! Rock on!

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Has there ever been such a logjam of crap music on network TV? Who are the tone-deaf weasels programming this dreck? I want a tribunal, and I want it now (just getting into the spirit of world affairs).Tub Stops Thursday, Nov. 29: Inside Schwartz (NBC,...

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Boxed In

Blowing the lid off the widescreen/letterbox conspiracy.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Widescreen advocates are a passionate bunch, in a psychotic sort of way. They’re movie buffs vehemently opposed to the “pan-and-scan” process that theatrical films are subjected to when being reformatted to fit on a TV screen. Since...

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Super-Sized

Cartoon network’s Justice League and TBS’ Invincible: There’s no I in teamwork, people.

By Bill Frost
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Whatever happened to the lone wolf, the maverick, the solo superhero who could save the world without getting all co-dependent about it? Tube StopsThursday, Nov. 15: Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (ABC, 7 p.m.) By No Means a Cheap Sweeps-Period...
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