Two of the four big summer three-quels hit DVD shelves today. Neither is worth your money. Better to spend it on La Vie en Rose, featuring one of the best performances in years by the amazing Marion Cotillard. Better yet, make it a French double-feature and pick up Paris Je T'Aime, too. If you haven't yet, invest a weekend watching Berlin Alexanderplatz. And, yes, it will take the whole weekend. Christmas and South Park... more ›

A Word or 76: CBS lineup tonight is wiped out by the CMAs and unless you are up for a Sir Laurence Olivier marathon on TCM then there's no movies on. I'm getting kind of sick of the parade of authors on late night TV, particularly Comedy Central - who the eff has time to read when there's so much bad TV? Speaking of bad TV, we're down to the final 3 on both... more ›

A Word or 10: I hope Jon Stewart rips Tenet a new one tonight. Tonight - Tuesday - May 8, 2007 Indians @ Angels (KCAL, 7:00 p.m.) NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) Murder victim found in taxi, Jenny discovers a "secret"/The team is having past mission infractions investigated Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) NBC exploits families looking for loved ones Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Rory's graduation party/Verionica investigates the disappearance of... more ›

Tonight - Tuesday - May 1, 2007 NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) This week the gimmick is a blind photographer - dude, what's your Flickr site?/Parachute malfunction Brando (TCM, 8-??) Biography of Marlon Brando followed by several of his films, starting with A Streetcar Named Desire. Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Boys confess to 2004 murder of 12-year-old girl Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Lorelai eating, drinking, shopping, karaoke/Veronica investigates vandalism of... more ›

A Word or 49: Iggy Pop redeems Jimmy Kimmel tonight. For petessake when is the stupid 'house' gimmick ever gonna end on House? (new one tonight) I'm rockin' the slot with the Shield tonight though - now that Vic seems to be in the clear perhaps we're just back to some stellar violence. Today - Tuesday - April 24th, 2007 Rita Hayworth Marathon (TCM, 5- p.m.) Starting with Pal Joey, then Salome, etc. Check... more ›

A Word Or 29: Slim pickins tonight my friends. I'm half inclined to just park it in front of TCM for a night of private eye flicks (Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer). Tonight - Tuesday - March 6th, 2007 Lakers @ Timberwolves (KCAL, 5:00 p.m) Kings @ Blackhawks (Fox Sports, 5:30 p.m.) The Big Sleep (TCM, 7:00 p.m.) Bogie as Philip Marlowe in this classic Raymond Chandler private eye flick, directed by Howard... more ›

Tonight - Tuesday - February 27th, 2007 Wuthering Heights (TCM, 7:00 p.m.) Get Bronteed with the original '39 film. NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) Pull on the Depends for 2 hours of non-stop CBS action. Dateline NBC/Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 8-11:00 p.m.) Perverted Justice/Poisoned journalist/A rape in Philadelphia Gilmore Girls (the CW, 8:00 p.m.) Rory gets offered an interview with the New York Times. Primetime (ABC, 9:00... more ›

My son has pink eye and I've had to watch daytime TV, a truly terrible terrible thing to have to subject yourself to. I dunno if I'll be able to turn any of the following on. more ›

A Word or 51: PBS and NPR have been hyping up the new set of Frontline programs that expose media manipulation. Knee-jerk conservative pundits will have a chance to spew their own conspiracy theories since this week we have the Anti-Surge Resolution in Congress, and the Libby trial - topics both relevant to the program. Tonight - Tuesday - February 13th, 2007 American Idol (Fox, 8:00 p.m.) Done with auditions, the show heads to... more ›

Crap - I have no time to get snarky with you today. more ›

A Word or 28: Am still impressed with the fact that Bill Gates went on the Daily Show on the eve of a major product kick-off. Too bad the product sucks. Tonight - Tuesday - January 30th, 2007 Lakers @ Knicks (KCAL, 5:30 p.m.) Kings @ Flames (Fox Sports, 6:00 p.m.) Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Members of 'Perverted Justice' search for perverts! If only it were the other way around. American Idol (Fox,... more ›

A Word or 67: I've already seen some State of the Union drinking games posted on the web, so get home early with a bottle of hooch because here again your early primetime programming is to be disrupted by our floundering President and his evil grimacing VP, standing behind him like some kind of Golem. Which Democratic senators is he going to attempt to kiss this time? Lieberman, pucker up mofo. Tonight - Tuesday... more ›

Slow night. Gilmore Girls...meh. Help Me Help You? Ted Danson as a doctor again? Oh, but this time with white hair. 8 pm Gilmore Girls (CW) 9:30 pm Help Me Help You (ABC) · And now, here is your complete list of Fall 2006 premiere dates [TV Squad]... more ›

When Everwood hit The WB airwaves a few years ago, the drama was so thick you could cut it with a knife... if you were lucky. Despite dealing with death, comas and more death, Everwood was a hit. This was due in part to superb writing and a formidable ensemble. Propelled by the wholesome audience of 7th Heaven, it found a comfortable, albeit angst-filled niche on the network line-up. Over the course of two seasons, we've watched Ephram and Andy (Treat Williams) patch their broken family and subsequently survive the icy storms—both literal and metaphorical—in the fictional, small town of Everwood, Colorado. Like Gilmore Girls or even the ill-fated Mountain, all WB dramas suffer/benefit from having an unbelievably attractive and incredibly witty group of townies. Everwood offers a bit more diversity than the other shows on the network, but everyone (except a character named Bright, ironically) seems too smart for their own collective good. On the season premiere, the headstrong Andy (one of three town doctors) was still pining after Nina, the hot-but-unavailable girl next door. The two have been dancing around their obvious attraction for two years. Both are inconveniently unavailable and have predictably bad timing. Yet, they're always there for one another and seem to embrace just a moment too long when consoling each other. That's part of the soapy charm of the show. more ›

Surprisingly for a comedy group known for training its members to develop specific, oddball characters, the July 16 performance of The Groundlings' new Saturday show, Groundlings May be Closer Than They Appear, featured only one sketch really based on a character. As a brassy, crooked financial consultant, Melissa McCarthy harangued the audience under the guise of a motivational speech. The performance was the funnier for its contrast with the sweet character, Sookie St. James, that McCarthy plays on Gilmore Girls. more ›