Sports fans have Draft Day. I have the upfronts, the yearly event held in New York where the five major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and the CW – announce their fall schedules in hopes of attracting some of those killer advertising dollars. That event is this week, and while I’m not currently … Continue reading
Sports fans have Draft Day. I have the upfronts, the yearly event held in New York where the five major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and the CW – announce their fall schedules in hopes of attracting some of those killer advertising dollars. That event is this week, and while I’m not currently … Continue reading
Since I’ve been writing this column, I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a weekly feature called “The Dumbest Person In Television” where I single out a character, actor, personality, or behind-the-scenes talent who has done something incredibly stupid and/or pissed me off during the week. Like during American Idol Gives Back, when Simon and … Continue reading
The brain of every television critic in America just exploded with joy – NBC announced today that Friday Night Lights, routinely called “the best new show of the season” by pretty much everyone, will receive a second season on the struggling network. In fact, NBC is confident enough in the Texas-set high school football drama … Continue reading
I want to preface this conference call interview with Hayden Panettiere and Eric Roberts by saying I had one goal when talking to two of the stars of NBC’s one real breakout hit of 2006, Heroes. One. To ask them about Watchmen. And also Days of Future Past. But mostly Watchmen, which Heroes has and … Continue reading
This season of Lost has been fantastic, a boon to the fans who stuck out some of the show’s previous lulls. The show has been amping up the drama and the mysteries*, and with the new schedule – wherein Lost is running without repeats through the season finale – Wednesday nights have taken on a … Continue reading
LOST: ALL WILL BE REVEALED…OR WILL IT? It looks like the brain trust behind Lost is serious about not falling into the same holding pattern as The X-Files, dragging the central mysteries between pretty people on a pretty fucked up island out for as long as humanly possible. The “ever-reliable” Kristin from E! (you know, … Continue reading
As its third season winds down and the upfronts approach, NBC is planning big changes for The Office. According to Thursday’s Variety, the Emmy-award winning series and second-most watched comedy on tv (in the 18-49 demo, it’s behind only Two and a Half Men) is being groomed to assume the fabled timeslot held by Cheers, … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading the columns I’ve been writing for THUD over these past few months, you know that I, Brendan Leonard, am a fan of the girl show – and I’m not talking about the one you can get for ten bucks at Christie’s in North Canton, Ohio. Devin has referred to these shows … Continue reading
NOT-SO-SWEET STUDIO 60 The Aaron Sorkin After School Special, which was the most anticipated drama of the 2006-2007 television season back when we all knew it as Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is, at last, coming back to television. The show, which, after a solid start, soon became the Monday night trainwreck of choice … Continue reading