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The Newsroom has given me a new disease
I am experiencing a condition I just invented called “viewership schizophrenia” when it comes to The Newsroom. The symptoms: I’m fully aware that it’s fairly terrible, and yet I’m still kind of...
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Olympics? When did those start? Emerging from the Television Critics...
TCA TLC: Random thoughts at the conclusion of the Summer 2012 Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. See if you can spot me in the scrums pictured above with Russell Brand of...
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REVIEW: Dexter, episode 1, season 7. How does Dexter Morgan spell relief?
Relief. That’s what Dexter Morgan was feeling. He closed his eyes. He exhaled. He was relieved. That sounds bizarre. But I’m sure of it. That’s how the first episode of the seventh season of Dexter...
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If the F-bomb “Fitz,” say it; Call Me Fitz swears it’s the new Trailer Park Boys
Call Me Fitz continues to try to top Trailer Park Boys for rapid-fire usage of foul language. In a comedic way, of course. What is it about the East Coast? Pushing the F-bombs-per-minute meter into...
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“Newfoundland Newhart” Shaun Majumder minds his “manors” in new series on W
Shaun Majumder wants to be the Newfoundland Newhart. “Yeah, kinda,” Majumder said with a laugh, thinking of his new series, Majumder Manor. “(Bob Newhart) had that beautiful old inn (in the 1980s...
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Farewell to heroes: Dexter season-seven finale
Dexter has become a Bonnie and Clyde story. This isn’t so much a lonely tale any more. It’s a bizarre partnership of self-preservation that watchers of this series in its earliest years never could...
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Sean Cullen of Rocket Monkeys says today’s cartoons can’t simply “ape” the past
You can’t have a cartoonish attitude toward cartoons any more. They still can be funny. For example, that’s the point of Rocket Monkeys, a new Canadian animated series that debuts Thursday, Jan. 10 on...
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Five cast members from The Sopranos reunite in Steve Schirripa’s Nicky Deuce...
Woke up this morning, got myself some gum. No fewer than five former cast members on The Sopranos make appearances in the youth-oriented made-for-TV movie Nicky Deuce. It starts with Steve Schirripa,...
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Top 10 TV must-sees for the week of July 21
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of July 21: 1 Animation Domination High-Def Debut: This project gives us two new cartoons, namely Axe Cop, with the voice of Nick Offerman, and High School USA!,...
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Aging like a fine “vine?” The Vineyard plucks from the early days of reality TV
How can anyone on the new series The Vineyard concentrate with all that contemporary soft rock playing in their ears? Oh wait. The music is added afterward. The people in the show can’t hear it. Never...
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Naked women performing sexual acts? Meh. Michael Sheen got used to it in...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Michael Sheen eventually became blase about all the sex scenes his character witnesses in the new series Masters of Sex. “I never thought I would get used to having a naked...
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A Super Fun Night with Masters of Sex; TV must-sees for the week
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Sept. 29: 1 Breaking Bad Series finale: The twisting and turning story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) finally comes to a close. Finales often disappoint,...
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Michael Gross brings “ageless” quality to Jason Priestley’s Call Me Fitz
The first thing you’ll notice when you see Michael Gross in Call Me Fitz is, well, he looks great. Gross, of course, is best known for his role as Steven Keaton, the father on Family Ties back in the...
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From Doctors and Miracles to Blinders and Blades; TV must-sees for the coming...
Bill Harris TV must-sees for the week of Nov. 17 1 The Day of the Doctor Debut: A worldwide, commercial-free simulcast marking the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith teams up...
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Kristin Bauer van Straten “voices” theories on Pam being True Blood’s most...
Kristin Bauer van Straten is the voice of Pamela Swynford De Beaufort. Phew, that’s a lot of names. But we mean it both figuratively and literally with regard to the long-running vampire series True...
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From Red John and the Challenger to Cosby and Cracked; TV must-sees for the week
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Nov. 24 1 The Challenger Disaster Debut: Made-for-TV movie about the controversial commission that investigated the infamous 1986 space-shuttle tragedy. Cast...
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Bonnie and Clyde meet Sons of Anarchy in Lilyhammer; top 10 must-sees for the...
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Dec. 8 1 Bonnie & Clyde Debut: A four-hour, two-night simulcast over three channels that stars Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainger as the infamous...
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Michael Buble gets Played with 7 Days in Hell; TV’s must-sees for the week
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Dec. 15 1) Masters of Sex First-season finale: In an episode titled Elvis Has Left The Building, a nervous and tense Dr. Masters (Michael Sheen) doesn’t get...
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Is acting safer than hockey? Dylan Playfair tests theory in Some Assembly...
There are several similarities between being a hockey player and Dylan Playfair‘s character in the new series Some Assembly Required. The 21-year-old Playfair, who is from a pro-hockey-playing family,...
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Girls find Flowers in the Attic in Suburgatory; TV must-sees for the week of...
Bill Harris’ TV must-sees for the week of Jan. 12 1) True Detective Debut: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star in this dark and brooding eight-episode series about cops and occult-related...
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