AOL TV-related stories
Posted Nov 12th 2009 3:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Web, Reality-Free
I know, I know, you're thinking, those are the only two choices I get,
Happy Days and
Gilligan's Island? Yes, according to this poll over at AOL Television. For the past several weeks they've
pit various TV show theme songs against each other in a tournament, and the two finalists, for some reason, are
Happy Days theme and the
Gilligan's Island theme.
Now, it seems like these aren't the "best" theme songs, just the ones that readers and TV fans thought were the most iconic, or maybe it's the fact that they both have lyrics and that's what readers were looking for?
Continue reading What's the best TV theme of all-time, Happy Days or Gilligan's Island?
Posted Sep 11th 2009 12:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Video, Site Announcements
Our friends at AOL TV have launched a new video site today that they're pretty proud of. The new site,
SlashControl, provides thousands of free full-length TV episodes of current and past TV shows, as well as lots of free full-length movies.
Navigation is fairly simple: go to either "Free Movies" or "Free TV Shows" and click on the first letter of the show or movie you want to watch. Shows are also easily searchable and grouped by season. Through AOL's partnerships with Hulu, ABC, CBS, Showtime, and a number of other providers, the list of available shows is fairly comprehensive. For shows that don't have full episodes available, there are plenty of embeddable clips available for viewing.
After taking a quick stroll through the site, the interface looks pretty easy to use and navigate, and it's always good to look for what you want on one site instead of all over the place. So take a look at SlashControl; hopefully, it'll only suck away half your day instead of the whole thing.
Posted Aug 11th 2009 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Web, Reality-Free
No, I'm not talking about the first Darrin being replaced on
Bewitched. I'm talking about real, big controversies that not only affected the TV world, but the real world, as well. AOL has chosen the
20 greatest TV controversies of all-time.
Included on the list are the Letterman/Palin battle, the
Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare in Boston, the Smothers Brothers political controversy, the quiz show scandals, and a certain nipple that made a cameo appearance at a rather important sporting event.
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 10:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free
This isn't some random thought I suddenly had this morning, it's actually in response to
AOL Television's list of the 40 best TV shows of the 1970s.
The Odd Couple, one of the great, laugh-out-loud comedies of all-time, comes in at number 21, while
The Brady Bunch comes in at number 15. Sometimes shows can't be judged the same (for example, comedy vs. drama or drama vs. animated), but come on,
The Brady Bunch so far ahead of
The Odd Couple?
I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing that shows like
The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
M*A*S*H, and
All in the Family are at the top, but there are a few entries that you and your friends can argue about.
Posted May 4th 2009 5:16PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Programming
Mother's Day is Sunday, but we all have to realize that not every mom deserves a box of chocolates, a nice dinner, or a bouquet of flowers. AOL has their picks for
the worst TV moms of all time, and a lot of the usual suspects are on the list. I think we can all agree that Marie Barone on
Everybody Loves Raymond should be on the list. She clearly loves her kids, but...wow, how manipulative and pushy and meddling can a person get?
Evelyn Harper from
Two and a Half Men is on the list, too. She's such a bad mom that it's sometimes easy to forget that she's even Charlie and Alan's mother. She seems more like some older, sexy aunt or something.
Continue reading Bad moms, bad moms, whatcha gonna do?
Posted Dec 15th 2008 1:06PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Hunks are in the eye of the beholder apparently. When I read -- drooled -- over the hunks chosen as the
50 Hottest Hunks Ever by our friends at AOL (that's a long time), I couldn't help but wonder about the guys that just missed the cut. I made a list. It was longer than the dozen men listed here, but these were the ones that I wanted included because they make my toes tingle.
Unlike Debra --
nice choices, Deb -- I've refrained from putting pictures of these hunks on my walls, but I sure have followed them from show to show, enjoying every moment when they were forced to take off their shirts or flex their muscles.
Bruce Campbell Oh, Bruce! He is such a hunk. Remember
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.? He was the epitome of the western hero, looking great in black with a cowboy hat, on a horse. And that killer smile. Now, on
Burn Notice, he's sort of an older hunk with the great Tommy Bahama shirts and perpetual five o'clock shadow, but still great looking. And since I was fortunate enough to meet him --
on a set visit -- I can tell you that he's a really an eyeful up close. I'd love to be in his arms any time!
Continue reading Overlooked hunks not in the Top 50
Posted Nov 20th 2008 11:23AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Cheers
All this month, AOL TV is publishing their list of
TV's hottest hunks of all time. That's a lot of hunks, but probably they won't all be memorable to you -- or to me.
Because when were you swooning over TV hunks? When you were a teenager, of course. Unless you are really, really immature. But seriously, I am guessing that beyond the age of 16 or so, you probably didn't plaster any
Teen Magazine pin-ups on your bedroom walls.
As a teenager of the '80s, I surely had my favorite TV hunks. Yep, they were plastered on my bedroom walls, too: imagine hunk wallpaper and you've got the idea. So who on TV mingled amongst the movie actors of the
Brat Pack?
Continue reading '80s TV hunks for the thirty-something teenybopper
Posted Oct 30th 2008 1:37PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
It's Halloween, so you know that like most holidays we're seeing more and more TV-related lists. AOL TV has picked
the top 20 witches of all-time.
I have to admit that when I first saw this piece I couldn't even name 20 witches that we've had on television. Sure, I immediately thought of Samantha and Endora on
Bewitched, Willow on
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, Tabitha on
Passions, and the girls from
Charmed, but after that I really had to scratch my head on how they were going to come up with 20. But then I saw that they extended the rules to include witches from cartoons and TV movies, so after that it's probably pretty easy. Though I think it's an easy way out to pick
all the girls from
Charmed.
Witchipoo from
H.R. Pufnstuf is there, as is the girl from
Wizards of Waverly Place. I've never seen this movie
Worst Witch they speak of, but they pick more than one witch from it so maybe it's more well known than I realize. I love the fact they picked Amanda from
Tucker's Witch.
Of course, the list isn't perfect. Nancy Grace isn't on it.
Continue reading Who are the top 20 TV witches of all-time? - VIDEO
Posted Aug 21st 2008 10:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Game Show, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
When I read
AOL's Top 20 Best Game Shows of All Time, I pretty much agreed with all the choices. I might have moved
Password up a bit, and dropped
Who Wants to Be A Millionaire to a lower slot, but the one selection that really made me glower was
The Price Is Right as number one.
No, no, not to me. For me, the only choice for numero uno is
Jeopardy. It's not a game of chance or luck or random spins of a wheel. It's all about brains and thinking on your feet. And maybe having really fast thumbs. Merv Grifffin's creation remains the best gameshow ever in my book.
As I was thinking about
Jeopardy, I realized that for me, the best
Jeopardy is not today's Alex Trebek version. I mean, it's great -- don't misunderstand me. It's the one I still prefer to watch today, but my favorite
Jeopardy remains the pre-syndication edition, the one that played on NBC daytime from 1964-1975. No, I'm not nuts. I have five very good reasons why I prefer the original, classic
Jeopardy.
Continue reading Five reasons I prefer classic Jeopardy - VIDEO
Posted Nov 13th 2007 10:01AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, TV Squad Lists
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AOL TV is listing the
50 sexiest women ever on television, and each week they release another ten picks. The list includes everyone from classic television actresses like Loni Anderson and Pat Priest to newcomers like Ali Larter and Sophia Bush. My favorite on the list so far is Jennifer Garner, hottie who can kick butt.
Their list inspired some of us female bloggers at TV Squad to make our own lists ... of TV's sexiest men. It's a much shorter one -- and we only focus on the good-looking men of TV today -- but I think you'll like it.
Click on the links below to see our lists -- be sure to start with Isabelle's picks! -- and end the tour with our tribute to TV's Hottest Guy:
Posted Nov 12th 2007 10:20AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd
The weather is getting colder. The leaves are changing colors. Well, if you live in California like me, neither of those things are happening. But Thanksgiving is coming soon. So, it's time to eat turkey, take naps and play touch football out in the brisk autumn air. And, it's time to think about what you're thankful for...on television, that is.
AOL TV wants to know what readers are thankful for on television or, I guess, pertaining to television. Any shows you are loving this fall? Any actors or actresses you're grateful to see on TV each week? Leave your comments here and AOL TV will read them and highlight a few the week of Thanksgiving.
Also, watch for TV Squad's own Thanksgiving posts. Our bloggers are working on posts about what they are thankful for on television, in the television industry, about television, etc. Some of them may even be highlighted along with yours.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted Nov 27th 2006 7:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: News, Video, Web
I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for blooper shows. The ones from sitcoms and dramas where the actors screw up are OK, but the great ones are from news broadcasts, because not only are the shows live, but they're supposed to be very straightforward and serious most of the time. You can see some sort of minor blooper on almost every news broadcast, but the ones here at AOL TV aren't minor. Like the newsanchor that has a tooth fall out of his mouth while live on the air, or the college weatherman who is incredibly nervous and gives one of the worst weather forecasts you'll ever see. Or the guy who tries to stuff a dollar bill down the cleavage of a reporter and the massive slips of the tongue on a live show. And then there's something everyone will like, the prank caller who manages to get on Nancy Grace's show and call her something we'd all like to call her.
Oh, and the next time you're watching your local news, and you think that the meteorologist or the anchorperson is lame or silly, remember this weatherman from the Charlotte, NC TV station (second video down). Wow. (He was eventually fired after rehab and now works at KREX-TV in Denver.)
Posted Oct 11th 2006 10:27AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, OpEd, Video, Web
Well, it's not exactly as hotly-anticipated as tonight's
other premiere,
30 Rock, but if you want to see John Lithgow and Jeffery Tambor's sitcom
Twenty Good Years before it premieres at 8:30 tonight, here's your chance.
Hoof it on over to AOL TV, which
is showing video of the entire pilot. In case you're not familiar with the show, Lithgow and Tambor are playing two sixty-year-old friends who have decided to break the shackles of their high-profile but comfortable lives (Lithgow's a surgeon, Tambor's a judge) and live life to the fullest in the twenty good years they have left. The pilot was pretty standard fare, a "let's set this thing up" episode that was barely saved by the comedic skills of its two stars. But it's worth watching, especially if you need to kill time before or after lunch. And if you go watch the
30 Rock premiere online, too, you'll be able to watch the Mets-Cards game tonight without guilt. So everybody wins!
Posted Apr 23rd 2006 9:44AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, Family Guy, Animation, Web
I watched
this
earlier today and I can't stop thinking about it. I don't know, I just find it funny. It's not every day that you get
references to the Olympics, eye boogers, and Mac computers all in one 30 second clip of a TV show.
You can
also check out preview clips from this week's
24 and
Big Love, but they're not as funny.
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