TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gif TV Squad http://www.tvsquad.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Katie Couric turns 50 and is settling in at CBShttp://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/katie-couric-turns-50-and-is-settling-in-at-cbs/http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/katie-couric-turns-50-and-is-settling-in-at-cbs/http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/katie-couric-turns-50-and-is-settling-in-at-cbs/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Katie CouricThis week's issue of The New York Observer has a pretty lengthy article about Katie Couric, discussing not only the multiple parties celebrating her fiftieth birthday, but talking about the tough sledding her first few months at the helm of the CBS Evening News has been. Rebecca Dana does a good job of showing all the issues that have surrounded her tenure at the anchor desk, speaking to CBS News producers, executives, and people on her old NBC staff who made the move with her.

Turns out that, not only are people at CBS uncomfortable with Katie's more conversational anchor style and her favoritism towards lengthy interviews and lighter fare, the viewers aren't taking to it either. "The most stunning thing about this experience has been to discover how resistant people are to change," executive Paul Friedman told Dana.

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]]>50th birthdaycbs evening newskaite couricKaiteCouricnew york observerrebecca danaJoel KellerThu, 11 Jan 2007 10:32:00 ESTMedium Rare: Psychic lesson number 104http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/09/05/medium-rare-psychic-lesson-number-104/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/09/05/medium-rare-psychic-lesson-number-104/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/09/05/medium-rare-psychic-lesson-number-104/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

brainI only watch Montel when psychic Sylvia Browne is on, because I like to study her and hopefully improve my own psychic abilities. So far I can bend spoons with my mind and talk to animals, though bending the spoon with my mind means I just press a spoon against my forehead until it bends, and while I can speak to animals, I can't actually understand what the animals themselves are saying. I've been trying to combine both of my psychic abilities into one by headbutting a cocker spaniel across the room, but so far no one is that impressed.

I haven't caught ol' Sylvia in awhile, but I did find a couple clips on YouTube that help to prove one very important rule for psychics: never, under any circumstances, admit you're wrong. In the first clip, which I placed after the jump, Sylvia tries to convince a grieving couple that their deceased daughter, who passed away five years ago at the age of seventeen, was shot in the chest. Actually, the girl just collapsed in her room and the autopsy revealed nothing. Undeterred, Sylvia changes "shot in the chest" to "something hit her in the chest," which, when you think about it, is really the same thing. Just the other day somebody punched me in the chest and then later somebody shot me at pointblank range with a .44 and I couldn't tell the difference at all.

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]]>9/11daughterdeathmontelpsychicsylvia brownevideowateryoutubeAdam FinleyTue, 05 Sep 2006 19:04:00 ESTRock Star: Supernova: Week 4 Performanceshttp://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/26/rock-star-supernova-week-4-performances/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/26/rock-star-supernova-week-4-performances/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/26/rock-star-supernova-week-4-performances/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

(S02E07) Tonight began with a little sample of the Supernova music. The aspiring rock stars nod appreciatively. Maybe the blistering Southern California heat has made me cranky but the music didn't make me giddy with anticipation. If anything it was a lot less intense than I had imagined it would be. As Gilby said, they aren't looking to do heavy metal. Instead it sounds more like Velvet Revolver. But it's hard to critique songs that aren't fully formed yet so let's get right to the performances. It was a bit of a rough week in my opinion.

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]]>cbsdave navarrorockstarsupernovatommy leeDeidre WoollardWed, 26 Jul 2006 07:17:00 ESTMedium Rare: Sleep, love, and moneyhttp://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/08/medium-rare-sleep-love-and-money/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/08/medium-rare-sleep-love-and-money/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/08/medium-rare-sleep-love-and-money/#commentsFiled under: , ,

ambienYesterday was Wednesday, and that can only mean one thing: Psychic Sylvia Browne was on Montel once again. Montel started the show as usual, giving a plug to Sylvia's book, If You Could See What I See. I've actually considered writing a book as a response to her book titled I Can See What You See Because You Don't Actually See Anything, but I can't seem to find a publisher for it because the title is also the complete text of the book. So it's really less of a "book" and more of a "sheet of paper with a sentence written on it," but whatever.

Sylvia begins the show by saying that through her work as a person who makes stuff up off the top of her head that she's come to realize that people are very "off kilter" these days, worried about the economy and their personal relationships. I actually found that  statement to be quite profound. She's absolutely right, this specific moment in human existence is nothing at all like before when everyone in the world was perfectly happy, financially secure, and had found the love of their lives. And who could forget all the dancing and singing? And the joy? And those little mushroom houses? Wait, I'm thinking of an episode of The Smurfs.

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]]>ambienbookdisorderif you see what I seemedium raremontelpsychicsleep eatingsylvia browneAdam FinleyThu, 08 Jun 2006 19:02:00 ESTMedium Rare: How the other side liveshttp://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/29/medium-rare-how-the-other-side-lives/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/29/medium-rare-how-the-other-side-lives/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/29/medium-rare-how-the-other-side-lives/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

PoltergeistIf we've learned anything from television psychics, it's that the "other side" is a very vague and confusing place. When loved ones contact us from that realm, it's never to say anything direct, instead they toss out random names, or, in the case of medium John Edward, they like to only give the first letter of a name, which is especially helpful for those of us who know people whose names begin with a letter, though somewhat unfortunate for my deceased Aunt 76875, who was named after the barcode on a box of Fiddle Faddle. Psychic Sylvia Browne has said that the "other side" has the exact same geography and topography as our world, which I can only assume means that world is populated by beings who lead the same day-to-day lives we do, but that it's frustratingly difficult to actually get anything accomplished:

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]]>cross countryCrossCountryjohn edwardmediummedium rarephonypsychicsylvia browneAdam FinleySat, 29 Apr 2006 18:04:00 ESTMedium Rare: Kids, dead people, and pandashttp://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/27/medium-rare-kids-dead-people-and-pandas/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/27/medium-rare-kids-dead-people-and-pandas/http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/27/medium-rare-kids-dead-people-and-pandas/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

sylvia browneSometimes I think to myself there must be more to this world than what my eyes see, a spirit world which mingles clandestinely with us lowly terrestrial beings. But how do we get in contact with the "other side," and more importantly, how can we use this knowledge to instill absolute terror in young children? This is why I watch psychic Sylvia Browne on Montel every Wednesday. If you missed yesterday's show, here's some highlights:

The first guests were a mother and a daughter who was probably in her late twenties. The daughter's sister, who was her twin, had passed away at a party without explanation. Using her conduit to the spirit world, Sylvia asked about a set of earrings. Yes, the mother said, she did sometimes buy things in sets of two for the girls, and sometimes she bought earrings. As much as I wish I had the kind of grip on the spirit world Sylvia has, I could only come to the same conclusion by noticing that the daughter was wearing gigantic earrings, that twins always receive gifts, usually similar, because they share the same birthday, and that every mother in the history of mankind has at one time or another bought earrings for her daughter(s).

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]]>childrenfunnyghostshumormontelpsychicspiritssylvia browneAdam FinleyThu, 27 Apr 2006 08:37:00 EST