world series-related stories
Posted Nov 11th 2009 2:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free, Glee
When I saw the
kids from Glee sing at the World Series earlier this month, I was surprised to see that Kevin McHale, the actor who plays disabled gleester Artie, wasn't disabled in real life.
Not sure why this surprised me; non-disabled actors have been playing disabled characters for decades. Maybe it's because McHale handles his wheelchair so well, or because
Glee seems to be pretty proud of its not-calling-attention-to-itself brand of diversity. Maybe I just figured that, in 2009, hiring a disabled actor to play a disabled character wasn't a big deal.
I guess I was wrong. And I'm not the only one who's puzzled and disappointed by the show's decision. Tonight's episode, in which the gleesters rally around Artie so he can travel with them to the regionals, is the jumping-off point for an AP article on how
disappointed disabled actors are about the casting of McHale in the role.
Continue reading Why isn't Artie on Glee played by a disabled actor?
Posted Nov 5th 2009 4:04PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Programming, OpEd, Bones, Ratings, Reality-Free
Considering the incredible
overnight ratings that Fox got for Game Six of the World Series, you might think I'm crazy to suggest that the network would be rooting for the New York Yankees last night to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, but I have evidence. All through the game, Fox was promoting
Fringe and
Bones, urging viewers to tune in tomorrow night -- tonight -- for new episodes. Why would the network be sending that message when there was a possibility of a Game Seven?
Continue reading Was Fox rooting for the Yankees to win the World Series?
Posted Nov 4th 2009 12:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 7:30, FOX has Game 6 of The World Series.- At 8, ABC has a new Hank, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick.
- CBS has a new Old Christine at 8, then new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- NBC has new episodes of Mercy, Law and Order: SVU, and The Jay Leno Show.
- The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
- PBS has Bill Cosby: The Mark Twain Prize 2009 at 8.
- At 9, TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne, then two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns.
- Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 9.
- History Channel has a new episode of The Nostradamus Effect at 9, followed by a new MysteryQuest.
- Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Destination: Truth.
- Fine Living has Martha Stewart's Thanksgiving Desserts at 9, then a new Whatever, Martha!
- Also at 9: Showtime has a new Inside The NFL.
- At 10, Bravo has the Top Chef All-Stars Dinner.
- Comedy Central has a new South Park, then a new Secret Girlfriend at 10.
- FX has a new Nip/Tuck at 10.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- Spike has a new Ultimate Fighter at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: World Series, Hank, Mercy, South Park
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 12:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- At 7:30, FOX has Game 5 of The World Series.
- At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Dancing with the Stars, followed by a new Castle.
- CBS has a new How I Met Your Mother at 8, then episodes of Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has new episodes of Heroes, Trauma, and The Jay Leno Show.
- The CW has a new One Tree Hill at 8, followed by a new Gossip Girl.
- ABC Family has a new Lincoln Heights at 8, then the season finale of Greek.
- There's a new Good Eats on Food Network at 8.
- ESPN has a new Monday Night Football at 8, the Falcons vs. the Saints.
- At 9, PBS has a new American Experience.
- USA has new Monday Night RAW at 9.
- Food Network has a new Unwrapped at 9.
- At 9:30, Lifetime has three new episodes of Rita Rocks.
- At 10, Food Network has a new Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
- TLC has two new episodes of Cake Boss at 10.
- Bravo has a new Million Dollar Listing at 10.
- Also at 10: E! has a new episode of The Soup Presents.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Good Eats, Two and a Half Men, Gossip Girl, RAW
Posted Nov 1st 2009 2:09PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Glee
When you're hot, you're hot. Fox's
Glee is hot. It's sizzling. The music is all over the charts. Their single,
"Don't Stop Believin'" went gold. It seems like everything it going right for this Ryan Murphy show.
For the third game of the World Series on the night of Halloween, fate tried to
rain on the Glee parade. Literally. It rained.
In Philadelphia where the game was being played, there was a rain delay of over an hour. If you were a
Glee fan -- a Gleek -- tuning in just to see the troupe before the game, you had to be disappointed.
Continue reading Singin' in the rain: Glee cast shines at the World Series
Posted Nov 1st 2009 12:11PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
Syfy is showing V: The Final Battle all night.- At 7, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos, followed by new episodes of Extreme Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters.
- CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then new episodes of The Amazing Race, Three Rivers, and Cold Case.
- NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7.
- At 8, FOX has Game 4 of The World Series.
- Food Network has a new Challenge at 8, followed by new episodes of Next Iron Chef and Iron Chef America.
- Nickelodeon has a new Dora The Explorer at 8.
- At 9, PBS has a new Masterpiece Contemporary.
- There's a new Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO at 9, then a new Bored To Death.
- Also at 9: Showtime has a new Dexter, followed by a new Californication.
- At 10, AMC has a new Mad Men.
- VH-1 has the series premiere of Sex Rehab at 10.
- At 11:30, Cartoon Network has a new Titan Maximum.
- At midnight, Cartoon Network has a new episode of The Venture Brothers.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Oct 31st 2009 12:10PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
Biography Channel has a Celebrity Ghost Stories marathon all night.- HBO Family has a Ghost Trackers marathon all night.
- At 7, Syfy has Ghost Hunters Halloween Live Countdown.
- At 7:30, FOX has Game 3 of The World Series.
- NBC has College Football at 7:30, Notre Dame vs. Washington State.
- At 8, ABC has College Football, USC vs. Oregon.
- Food Network has Spooky Cake & Candy Cook-Off at 8, followed by two Halloween episodes of Challenge.
- TCM has 1941's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at 8.
- At 9, CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show.
- BBC America has a new Robin Hood at 9, then a new Graham Norton Show.
- Bravo has 13 Scarier Movie Moments at 9.
- Animal Planet has a new Dogs 101 at 9.
- At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- History Channel has The Real Wolfman at 10.
- At 12:30AM, Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Bleach.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
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Posted Oct 29th 2009 12:16PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 7:30, FOX has Game 2 of The World Series.- ABC has a new FlashForward at 8, then new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.
- CBS has a new Survivor at 8, followed by new episodes of CSI and The Mentalist.
- NBC has new episodes of Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office, 30 Rock, and The Jay Leno Show.
- The CW has a new Vampire Diaries at 8, then new episodes of Supernatural.
- Cartoon Network has a new Chowder at 8.
- At 9, Comedy Central has a new Jeff Dunham Show.
- TLC has a new American Chopper at 9.
- Spike has TNA Wrestling at 9.
- Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Action at 9.
- At 10, Bravo has a new Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- FX has a new It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at 10, then the series premiere of The League.
- Food Network has the season finale of Ace of Cakes at 10.
- Current has a new Rotten Tomatoes at 10.
- Also at 10: Lifetime has a new Project Runway.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: CSI, 30 Rock, Real Housewives, The League
Posted Oct 28th 2009 5:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
I have to admit that, when the Yankees are in the playoffs, most of my regular TV watching gets obliterated. Thankfully, DVRs and online TV sites (and, in the mid-'90s, VCRs) help me catch up. For instance, even though I have to review
Cougar Town, I'll likely won't watch it until tomorrow morning, on either ABC.com or Hulu. Why? World Series game one, of course. Nothing, not even the Yankees being behind 22-0, is going to tear me away from FOX at 9:30, when I should be watching
Cougar Town on ABC.
Which leads me to something that I've been wondering lately: Didn't networks used to program more reruns against the World Series? Tonight, NBC has a lineup of new episodes, as does ABC (except for
Charlie Brown in Hank's slot, for understandable reasons). Tomorrow, all three of FOX's competitors have new episodes.
Continue reading Remember when there were reruns against the World Series?
Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 7:30, FOX has Game 1 of The World Series.- At 8, ABC has It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick.
- NBC has Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space, then new episodes of Law and Order: SVU and The Jay Leno Show.
- The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
- At 8:30, Disney XD has four new episodes of Naruto: Shippuden.
- At 9, DirecTV has the season premiere of Friday Night Lights.
- Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9, followed by a new Time Warp.
- Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Destination Truth.
- Showtime has a new Inside The NFL at 9.
- At 10, Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas.
- Comedy Central has a new South Park at 10, then a new Secret Girlfriend.
- FX has a new Nip/Tuck at 10.
- There's a new Dinner: Impossible on Food Network at 10.
- Also at 10: TCM has Harold and Maude.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: World Series, Monsters vs. Aliens, Friday Night Lights, Ghost Hunters
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The World Series is just around the corner and Fox has done something to make the coverage a bit more interesting. No, they have dictated that the umpires be replaced with androids, although after the screw-ups from Game Four of the ALCS, that might not be a bad suggestion.
Fox Sports has added White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen to the pre and post-game analysis.
Aside from being a World Series winner,
Ozzie is a character. He's funny, audacious, occasionally inappropriate, but highly knowledgeable about baseball and entertaining. He won't hold back what he thinks and if you want to hear real inside baseball talk, that's what Ozzie will deliver.
Continue reading White Sox' Ozzie Guillen joins Fox for World Series
Posted Oct 16th 2009 9:38AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free, Glee
Take that, NBC! When the word leaked yesterday that the performers from
Glee had been uninvited to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade because the folks at NBC didn't want to give the Fox show a national platform to strut their stuff, plenty of people thought it was a low blow. Well, something else has come along that's just as big a national stage.
On
October 31, the Glee cast will sing the National Anthem at the World Series. That's game three, and it'll be a chance for the singers to put their own unique spin on "The Star Spangled Banner."
Continue reading Forget the Thanksgiving Day Parade; Glee gets a World Series game
Posted Oct 29th 2008 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, CBS, FOX, NBC, MSNBC, BET, TV One, and Univision have The Barack Obama Show.- ABC has a new Pushing Daisies at 8, then new episodes of Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money.
- Discovery has two new episodes of Time Warp at 8, followed by new episodes of Mythbusters and Prototype This!
- At 8:30, FOX has Game 5 of The World Series.
- CBS has a new Old Christine at 8:30, followed by new episodes of Criminal Minds and CSI: NY.
- NBC has a new Deal Or No Deal at 8:30, then a new Lipstick Jungle.
- At 9, PBS has a new Great Performances.
- John McCain is the guest on a new Larry King Live, on CNN at 9.
- Sci-Fi has a new Ghost Hunters at 9.
- Showtime has a new Inside The NFL at 9.
- At 9:30, A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter, followed by a new Parking Wars.
- At 10, Comedy Central has a new South Park, then a new Chocolate News.
- There's a new Sons of Anarchy at 10 on FX.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- Also at 10: Bravo has a new Top Design.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk show listings.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Barack Obama, World Series, Ghost Hunters, Ben Stein
Posted Oct 28th 2008 4:26PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, News, Programming, Reality-Free
How long will baseball fans have to wait to watch the end of game five of the World Series between the Phillies and the Rays? Well, it'll be at least another day. Major League Baseball commissioner
Bud Selig has canceled tonight's resumption of the suspended game five.
Oh, and you know that Barack Obama ad that is going to be shown from 8-8:30 on NBC and CBS (
but not ABC)? It's also going to be on Fox, too. The World Series game will be pushed back to accommodate the Democratic Presidential candidate.
Don't flip out and cry foul! The TV gods anticipated that there might be a conflict when they sold the time slot to the Obama campaign. In fact, they had the opportunity to turn them down. But Fox was inclined to take the ad revenue.
Continue reading Obama trumps suspended World Series game
Posted Oct 27th 2008 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
Bravo has election-themed episodes of The West Wing all day until 10pm.- At 8, ABC has a new Dancing with the Stars, then new episodes of Samantha Who? and Boston Legal.
- NBC has a new Chuck at 8, followed by new episodes of Heroes and My Own Worst Enemy.
- FOX has Game 5 of The World Series at 8.
- The CW has new episodes of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill.
- Food Network has a new Good Eats at 8, followed by new episodes of How'd That Get On My Plate? and Unwrapped.
- TCM has An American In Paris at 8.
- At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
- Disney has a new episode of The Replacements at 9.
- Also at 9: Spike has two new episodes of Unsolved Mysteries.
- At 10, TNT has a new Raising the Bar.
- Food Network has the season premiere of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk show listings.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: West Wing, Heroes, Unsolved Mysteries, Bill O'Reilly
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