The Problem of Canceled TV Shows
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in TV | No Comments »So Joss Whedon's Dollhouse is canceled. At least Fox will let the season end, airing the remaining episodes and giving the show a proper, if early, finale. Another sci-fi show wasn't so lucky. ABC canceled Defying Gravity just as it ...
Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse Debuts Tonight
Friday, February 13th, 2009 Posted in TV | 1 Comment »Joss Whedon, the creative mind behind such compelling TV as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has a new show debuting tonight. It's called Dollhouse and is about these secret agent types who sign up to ...
Star Wars Holiday Special
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in TV | No Comments »To make your Christmas bright I humbly offer the Star Wars Holiday Special. If you're not familiar with it, it's an exercise in complete and utter awfulness. Released in 1978 months before Empires Strikes Back hit theaters and never seen ...
The Top 100 Movies/TV Shows/Music/Books I Don’t Enjoy
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Books, Movies, Music, TV | 5 Comments »Entertainment Weekly released lists of the top 100 movies, TV shows, albums and books of the last 25 years. It's kind of interesting to check out the lists and see how many of the top picks I've seen/listened to/read: Movies: 42/100 TV ...
Watching Sesame Street Again
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Children, TV | 4 Comments »This week Abby showed Lexi some old school Sesame Street clips on YouTube. Lexi loved them--especially the YipYipYipYipYip monsters. So I decided we'd try watching some Sesame Street when it was on PBS. I'm usually not big on watching TV ...
Post-Apocalyptic Stories & Jericho
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in Books, TV | 1 Comment »Not too long ago I went on a sci-fi bender and confessed my love for post-apocalyptic fiction. So it was really only a matter of time before I checked out last year's new TV drama Jericho (and thanks to the ...
Commercials, How Quaint
Monday, October 1st, 2007 Posted in TV | 6 Comments »I'm watching Heroes tonight. On live TV. With commercials. How quaint.
Tick Party: The Best Tick Episodes Ever
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 Posted in TV | 4 Comments »I'm bacheloring it up this weekend as Abby and Lexi are off watching grandma compete in a triathalon (as hilarious as that sounds, could you survive a triathalon?). So I'm throwing a Tick Party. We'll be watching episdoes of the ...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 Posted in TV | 4 Comments »Even though the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series ended in 2003, we're finally getting a glimpse at what happens after Dawn asks that fateful series ending question, "What are we gonna do now?" Creator Joss Whedon is releasing the ...
37Signals on Project Runway
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Posted in TV | No Comments »The 37Signals guys rave about the fashion design reality show Project Runway, and I think they might be tapping into part of why I like the show: the creative, make it work philosophy. I watched five minutes of America's Next Top ...
