POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Only a year ago, we were waiting for the Greatest Can’t-Miss TV Idea Ever to debut, the XFL—remember that? The attitude and flash of the World Wrestling Federation applied to football, with slutty cheerleaders and cameras everywhere! With...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There are many, many things I waste my time watching on TV—and not just in this kinda-professional capacity, either. I’ve sat through mind-numbing nonsense no casual-wimp viewer could withstand, programs I’m fairly sure enjoy a total...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - How tapped-out are the genres of reality and game-show television? Networks are fighting over the rights to “ideas” buried 11.8 miles below the bottom of the barrel. Tube StopsThursday, Jan. 24: The Tick (Fox, 7:30 p.m.) The Final Episode:...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never looked hotter than she does in the new Watching Ellie (NBC; debuts Tuesday, Feb. 26). Does that make her stab at a network sitcom better than quickly canceled “efforts” by fellow Seinfeld expatriates Jason Alexander...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - No, your favorite TV show hasn’t been canceled—yet. If network suits have cut back on its number of episodes ordered for the remainder of this season, however, you just might be faced with the prospect of joining one of those pervasive-but-fruitless...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - No Friends. No West Wing. No Law & Order. No ER. No Conan. Nada. NBC is going to be televising “375.5 hours of Olympic coverage” this month—the “.5” representing a wild-card half-hour in which the Today Show’s $65-million...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - After suffering through what’s been declared the Dullest February Sweeps in History (by “real” TV critics, for whatever that’s worth), when most networks rolled over and played dead in the face of the 2002 Winter Olympics, you...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Somewhere in a parallel universe, quasi-famous former rock singer Michael Des Barres can land an acting job playing something other than a quasi-famous former rock singer. And the title My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (The WB; debuts Thursday, March...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Many of your favorite TV shows went by different names before they debuted: Friends was originally titled Six of Us. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation used to be Crime Scene Investigators. Maybe It’s Me was once called Maybe I’m Adopted. Ed was...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Apparently, it wasn’t made crystal clear that last week’s edition of The Only TV Column That Matters™ was an April Fool’s joke—a masterfully written and brilliantly executed April Fool’s joke, but nothing to be taken...