The 2011-12 TV season has almost faded to snow and the dust has settled from the cancellation carnage. Looking back, I’d say it was a very good season for characters. That’s why I’m resurrecting my formerly annual top 10 favorite TV characters list.
Last year’s “Gideon’s Sword” was a somewhat rocky start to Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s new Gideon Crew series that felt a bit like a James Bond update. The second novel, “Gideon’s Corpse” (January, hardcover) is a significant step up and it calls to mind a more contemporary influence, the TV series “24.”
Since I’m venturing into politics with this post (which will eventually be about television), I’ll admit my bias up front: I’ll be voting for the Libertarian Party ticket of Johnson-Gray in November. But I think anyone who’s been paying attention knows that the growing distrust of Big Government, Big Spending and Big War is the noteworthy political […]
In an interview with Star Wars Insider, Jeff Grubb (author of the new novel “Scourge,” which I’ll review in a future post), separates “Star Wars” novels into three categories: Jedi books, war books and “scum and villainy” books. That latter are his favorite, and I concur.
It’s that time of year when summer movies start to steal the headlines from TV, but boob-tube fans have one last gasp, at least: The May season finales. Due to the evolving TV calendar, it’s not as jam-packed of a month as it used to be; “Parenthood,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “Ringer” and “The […]
Based on the trailers, here are the 10 movies I’m most looking forward to in the summer of 2012. They are listed in order of release date. “The Dictator” (May 16) — Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest daring comedy breaks free from the cringeworthiness of “Borat” and “Bruno” by being a scripted (albeit still silly) laugh-fest. And Anna Faris looks adorable as […]
“The L.A. Complex” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays on The CW), which can be sneak-previewed at Hulu and premieres on old-fashioned TV on Tuesday, repackages the tried-and-true clichés about trying to make it in show business in a zesty, fast-paced way. Comparing first episodes, it blows away NBC’s polished, dull and much-more-hyped “Smash.”
I guess I shouldn’t speak of “Ringer” in the past tense just yet, although I would be surprised if it came back for a second season on The CW. If there is a Season 2, there are still threads worth exploring: Most notably the long-awaited face-to-face meeting of Siobhan and Bridget, but also more of Andrew and […]
TV review: “Angel’s” fourth season features unappealing turns for Cordelia’s characterization, but also some pretty epic villains.
I was shocked — pleasantly so — to find the first reference to “American Dreams” only five paragraphs into the Associated Press’ feature obituary on Dick Clark, who died on Wednesday at age 82.