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This is a society where, on one side, fad diets and unreasonable surgeries are embraced to control weight loss and, on the other side, we are presented with unrealistic, size-zero beauty. It is refreshing to have a show that presents the undeni- able fact that healthy diet and exercise are the keys.]]> By Bill Frost

Drive tFriday, July 13 (Fox) tTwo-Hour Series Finale'This Time for Real, Probably: Fox decided that Friday the 13th would be a more advantageous send-off/burn-off date for the canceled Drive than July the 4th. Or they’re just fucking with you again,...]]> By Bill Frost

Big Brother ttThursday, July 5 (CBS) tSeason Premiere: After an endless cavalcade of morons-in-a-house reality rip-offs, Big Brother is suddenly looking pretty good'you know, like the first skank you eyed at the club earlier in the evening before those...]]> By Bill Frost

The Starter Wife ttThursday, June 28 (USA) tMiniseries Finale: This should have been over weeks ago. The initial two hours of The Starter Wife were charming enough, but the miniseries ran out of story long before it exhausted the wardrobe (apparently...]]> By Bill Frost

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ttThursdays (NBC) tRemember that excitement about NBC allowing Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip to play out its final episodes over the summer? Over it. Waaay over it. What was originally a crackling showbiz dramedy with touches...]]> By Bill Frost

The 4400, The Dead Zone ttSunday, June 17 (USA) tSeason Premieres: Jesus, er, Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell) is now a series regular on The 4400, despite having been assassinated last season'because no one’s going to watch a show called The 4399....]]> By Bill Frost

Let’s set things straight, excuse the pun: The September issue of the Pillar, Utah’s fine monthly gay-lesbian-transgendered newspaper, erroneously reported that the dreaded new Dr. Laura TV show would be broadcast locally by KUTV 2. The Pillar...]]> By Bill Frost

Call me a bonehead (go ahead, everyone does), but I likes my cable TV. It ain’t an easy thing to admit publicly. On one hand, you’ve got the satellite dish clique proclaiming themselves a superior race of humans because they can watch Malcolm...]]> By Bill Frost

American Psycho (Lions Gate, R) The greatest history lesson on the ’80s ever! Finally, the genius of Huey Lewis & the News gets props! If you happen to be a twisted puppy (face it, if you’re reading back this far in the freebie paper,...]]> By Bill Frost

Ever heard the word “beating” used to describe an extremely negative experience? I’ve heard it twice in the last week: The first was in reference to ex-City Weekly columnist John Harrington’s old talk-radio show (“Damn, listening...]]> By Bill Frost

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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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]> By Bill Frost

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...]]>