TV-related stories
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 11:31AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
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This week we have spoilers for:
90210, Bones, Desperate Housewives, Ghost Whisperer, Glee, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order: CI, Lost, Supernatural, The Mentalist and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted May 13th 2009 8:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Casting, Reality-Free
You may think the soap world has thrown in the the towel because
72-year-old Guiding Light has been canceled, but think again. Daytime TV is buzzing along as usual, and that includes
The Bold & the Beautiful snagging three-time Emmy winner Rick Hearst from
General Hospital.
Hearst, who was facing the prospect of a demotion to recurring status (as opposed to a contract player), will return to
B&B as Whip Jones, a character he introduced and played for a brief stint in 2002.
Continue reading Three-time Emmy winner Rick Hearst jumps to Bold & the Beautiful
Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:06AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: 30 Rock, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
The success of
Slumdog Millionaire and
Frost/Nixon recently inspired me to assess
the ten best movies about television. TV has been a fertile source of entertainment for filmmakers. The TV turf is also a popular setting for TV shows, and there have been some all-time great shows about the tube. Here are nine that I think warrant special recognition -- in no special order.
1. The Mary Tyler Moore ShowIt all started at WJM-TV in Minneapolis.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was the perfect sitcom blend of home and work, and work happened to be the local TV news team. As Mary Richards, the associate producer, Mary Tyler Moore was the single girl America loved because she was real, funny, gorgeous and lovable. At work, the news was mangled nightly by Ted Baxter, the quintessential news reader anchorman who loved every dulcet tone of his voice and had no idea what he was reporting. In perfect irony, when the show came to an end, most everyone at WJM -- Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter, Sue Anne Nivens, Mary -- were fired. Only Ted was spared!
Continue reading Nine memorable TV shows about TV - VIDEO
Posted Jan 8th 2009 7:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Cable/Satellite, Reality-Free
You've seen the countless ads with the dire warnings: switch to digital TV by February 17 or you won't be able to watch any of your favorite shows and you'll have to read a book or play with your kids. And I bet your local news stations have been running various tests and a crawl at the bottom of the screen to remind you about the transition. Now it looks like it might not happen when it's supposed to..
The Obama transition team is
asking Congress to extend the deadline because the way the transition has been handled hasn't been the smoothest: there's been a problem with the
coupons that the government is giving out so people can get a converter box, the education on the new technology has been inadequate, and the government doesn't have the funds to make the current date a reality. Consumers unions are also asking for the date to be extended.
My sister asked me if I was ready for the digital transition, and I told her that I've been ready for years. Then I met someone last week who says she still has a small portable TV with rabbit ears. Are you ready for the change?
Continue reading Obama wants to delay that whole digital TV thing
Posted Dec 30th 2008 12:02PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, HDTV, Cable/Satellite, Web, Reality-Free, Webisodes
When I'm not pumping out my latest TV rant for the ol' Squad here, I write pretty infrequently for another blog with some old college roomies called The Suite Spot. It's really nothing more than a bunch of disgruntled twentysomething males talking about whatever we want.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, my buddy Keith wrote something that astounded me: he's canceled his cable TV service. And not just cable - I mean everything. Basic service too. The man is TV-less.
Wha?!? Just how the heck can a red-blooded American male say no more to cable TV? Good-bye ESPN? So long crappy late night soft-core porn? Farewell Desperate Hou... wait, nevermind. That one sounds great, but you get my point.
Is Keith still watching TV? Sure, tons of it. But he's doing something that many of us only use as a supplement to our normal TV viewing. He's watching everything online.
Continue reading Could you go without cable TV?
Posted Nov 28th 2008 2:32PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Programming, Reality-Free
If you're like a lot of other American families, Thanksgiving dinner included not only turkey, cranberries, stuffing and pumpkin pie. You also had the TV on and the football game playing.
Every year there are two games that are locked in -- by tradition -- to the Thanksgiving game, the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys. Well, it's time to end tradition and end it now. While Dallas has remained a national favorite -- whether you like them or loathe them, they're relevant -- the Detroit Lions are not. There aren't many times a year when family gets together and TV viewing is a big part of it. It's fun to watch the NFL with family and friends, but the game has to be potentially a good one. Some of my favorite memories are of watching football on TV on the holidays.
This season they are winless and looking at their schedule, not likely to notch a single victory the rest to the way. They are awful and unwatchable. Yesterday the Detroit Lions
were trounced 47-10 by the Tennessee Titans and the game was over in the first quarter, ruining the viewing for the entire nation. It had to be an embarrassment for the people of Detroit!
Continue reading Time for the NFL to end a Thanksgiving tradition
Posted Aug 25th 2008 9:24AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Watercooler Talk
Be honest: who doesn't let out a good guffaw when watching somebody famous snap on TV? Or better yet, screw up?
Apparently, Bill O'Reilly is a big offender, since he is practically the star of the "outbursts" section of
30 Hilarious TV Meltdowns, Outbursts and Blunders, a collection of video clips highlighting these funnies. In classic
American Idol style, an auditioner from the
X Factor goes off on Simon Cowell and friends when she is rejected. Whoo-boy.
My favorite meltdown has got to be when Bill Clinton loses it in fits of laughter when Boris Yeltsin calls a reporter a disaster, after the reporter claims their summit was one. Or is it when a bunch of kids pelt a reporter with snowballs?
Continue reading TV meltdowns, outbursts and blunders - VIDEO
Posted Apr 23rd 2008 2:53PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: PVR Wire, Web, Hardware
Archos is rolling out a series of software upgrades to its WiFi-enabled portable media players.
CNET reports that he 605 WiFi and 705 WiFi will be getting support in May for Flash 9 which will let you watch online video from sites like YouTube and Hulu.
Flash 9 support will come as a free firmware upgrade, but you'll also be able to pay $20 for a "Web TV and Radio plug-in" which will give you access to thousands of streaming radio stations, video streams, and podcasts. Don't expect broadcast quality television though. More likely you'll find C-Span style video content.
Finally, Archos is adding placeshifting features to the Archos TV+, which is the company's answer to the Apple TV. The company will release a plugin in May that will let the box stream content over the internet to computers, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones, and of course Archos's internet-enabled portable media players.
Posted Feb 4th 2008 11:20AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk
Everyone at one point or another watched a TV show (or a movie) and said: "That can only happen on TV!" We even have a saying in French to explain that something is so far-fetched that it can't be real. It roughly translates as "This is set up by the movie guy." The
Have Happy Fun Time blog came up with the "Top 25 Things that Only Happen in Movies." But, as you'll see, that list also works for TV series.
Continue reading Top 25 things that only happen on TV (and in movies)
Posted Jan 13th 2008 10:15PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Awards
Tonight, in a lavish press conference, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the winners of the
2008 Golden Globes. Here are the winners in the major TV categories:
Best TV series, comedy: Extras, HBO
Best TV series, Drama: Mad Men, AMC
Best actor, TV series, comedy: David Duchovny,
Californication
Best actress, TV series, comedy: Tina Fey,
30 RockContinue reading Here are the Golden Globe TV winners
Posted Oct 3rd 2007 9:01AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd
As everybody knows, all great ideas are eventually copied...er...adapted to other sources. Well, maybe not all of them but someone else is getting on the "daily video" bandwagon. Apparently, BoingBoing.net is going to do a daily TV segment to supplement its website. Of course, TV Squad has been doing something similar for quite some time now with our daily videos from Brigitte.
Continue reading BoingBoing going to TV
Posted Jul 4th 2007 8:40PM by Martin Conaghan
Filed under: Programming, Doctor Who, Episode Reviews
(S03E13) It almost seems inevitable that a series finale doesn't quite live up to everyone's expectations, with a few minor exceptions (such as the recent series finale of
Lost).
I eagerly anticipated the series finale of
Heroes, and while I was significantly entertained enough to have enjoyed myself, I felt kind of cheated when it was revealed that Syler was probably not dead after all.
I felt the same way with this last part of the current
Doctor Who series; it was great to watch, but the inevitable cop-out at the end left me feeling a little bit like I'd been pick-pocketed.
Warning: Spoilers after the jump.
Continue reading Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords (season finale)
Posted Jun 27th 2007 7:26PM by Martin Conaghan
Filed under: Programming, Doctor Who, Episode Reviews
(S03E11 / S03E12) I've decided to combine the first two episodes of this three-part finale in to one review, partly because it's only a few days until the finale itself, but mostly because I really don't know where to start with this totally explosive storyline.
When
Doctor Who returned to our screens a few years ago, everyone was anticipating the return of old favourites, like the Autons, the Daleks and the Cybermen -- and, sure, those guys notched up the fear factor and excitement when The Doctor faced them down -- but there's one guy we've all been waiting for, and he finally turned up in the strangest of places.
Well, make that two guys...
WARNING: Spoilers after the jump. Continue reading Doctor Who: Utopia/The Sound of Drums
Posted Jun 26th 2007 6:27PM by Martin Conaghan
Filed under: Programming, Doctor Who, Episode Reviews
(S03E10) Apologies for the lack of
Doctor Who reviews recently, but I was sunning myself in Italy, and returned home to find a bumper hoard of episodes waiting for me on my Sky+ box.
Before I begin, let me ask you a question: how many times in recent years have you watched a stand-alone episode of a big sci-fi show and walked away from it thinking, "Man, that was brilliant"?
Seriously -- it can't be more than once or twice. Maybe a few episodes of
X-Files, or
Star Trek:TNG - possibly some
Babylon 5 or
Battlestar Galactica.Continue reading Doctor Who: Blink
Posted Jun 6th 2007 4:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Industry, Web
First Kentucky Fried Chicken and now you, Museum of Television and Radio? Oh, why must things change?
Anyway, the Museum of Television of Radio is changing its name, but not to "MTR." No, it will henceforth be known as "Paley Center for Media," which TV trivia-heads will recognize as being named after William S. Paley, who founded CBS and started the museum in 1975 (back then it was called the "Museum of Broadcasting," so it's not like this is the first time the name has changed).
So why the change? It's quite simple: we don't just get our information through TV and radio anymore. We now have this thing called "the internet," not to mention video content through mobile devices.
Continue reading Museum of Television and Radio is changing its name
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