April 2006

The networks officially announce their fall schedules in May, but there are always announcements before the announcements. Yesterday, NBC renewed all three shows bearing the "Law & Order" name. Today it added "Medium," "Crossing Jordan" and "Las Vegas" to the pickup list.
Although I like "Medium," the other two renewals won't have any impact on my [...]

Fox has announced the musical themes for next week's "American Idol." " Next week, the remaining contestants will each perform two songs," says the network, "one from the year when they were born, and any Top-10 Billboard charts from this week."
In other words, we're back to making it easy on the remaining performers. After all, [...]

(Those of you looking for last night's "American Idol" post, see below.)
I have been thinking about Tony Snow's head. I will chalk some of that up to mental fuzziness. Didn't get enough sleep last night. Then, just as I thought I had a plan worked out for this morning, my bride looked at our main [...]

Big night for viewing and recording — "Idol," "Gilmore," "Veronica," "House," "The Unit," VH1's telecast of "Love Monkey" … but not "Less Than Perfect," which returns to the ABC lineup.
I have seen tonight's "Less Than Perfect" and more beyond that, and it makes me sad. This used to be a reliable if unremarkable comedy, good [...]

Not much of an episode. Sally's gone, leaving Terry on his own. But, because of his bad strategy in previous weeks, he already was on his own. He has put himself in the position of having no allies and needing to win out on immunity. The one benefit, touted in the trailers, is that the [...]