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Posted Sep 3rd 2008 12:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Programming, Casting, Reality-Free

For nearly 20 years, NFL football fans could feast on Sunday games and then flip on ESPN for a complete wrap up on
NFL Prime Time hosted primarily by Chris "Boomer" Berman and Tom Jackson. It was a staple. Then in 2005, ESPN dropped the show.
Now, it's coming back (sort of) and in addition to Boomer and Jackson, John Saunders will be rejoining them, re-creating the original troika from 1987. The essence of
NFL Prime Time will be found in the 7 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter each Sunday during football season. Essentially, they'll be doing what they did on
NFL Prime Time, and in doing so, they'll be taking aim at
NBC's Football Night in America, that network's lead in show for the
Sunday Night Football game.
This should be really interesting because the NBC pre-game show is like Thanksgiving dinner -- loaded with stuffing. They have stars galore, including the recently
added, former ESPN stalwart, Dan Patrick.
Continue reading ESPN takes on NBC Sunday Night Football
Posted Oct 8th 2007 9:40AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Episode Reviews

(
S02E02) My husband tells me that Heather Havrilesky has written in
Salon that
Brothers and Sisters is manipulative. She writes, "'Brothers & Sisters' is emotional Frogger. Luckily, I loathe these beautiful, wealthy, loving, empathetic humans and so it brings me deep joy to watch them suffer."
I, however, persist in liking
Brothers and Sisters, manipulation and all. That isn't to say that I don't get irritated with the show, as readers who followed my posts last year can attest. I was irritated tonight with the blatant manipulation of opening the show with a funeral, when last week's episode left us in some doubt about whether or not the youngest Walker (oops, second-to-youngest), Justin, was killed in Iraq.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: An American Family