Whose Story Does the Kennedy Biopic Really Tell?
This Sunday, April 3 (at 8:00pm), after a protracted delay, the niche cable movie channel Reelz Network will rescue the controversial miniseries on America’s most famous ruling-class family that was...
View ArticleTelly Davidson: Anchors Away!
Breaking news! This just in! Katie Couric is likely to leave the CBS Evening News after five years for a probable syndicated talk show (not unlike her CNN colleague, Anderson Cooper.) This follows...
View ArticleReality TV’s First Family
Today, (supposedly) “reality” shows that cynically and purposefully manipulate very real people into pre-arranged situations for maximum “dramatic effect” are just another week at the office in network...
View ArticleGoodbye, Michael Scott
In Michael Moore’s ultimate propaganda masterpiece, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore rhetorically asked how someone who got as many things wrong as Timothy Geithner did (in his pre-and-during meltdown...
View ArticleHBO Takes on Wall Street
In the spring of 2008, just as the wheels were starting to come off of Wall Street, HBO presented a movie about how the Bush era began, with a star-studded film of the 2000 election Recount. This...
View ArticleHow Oprah Became the Queen of Television
When Chris Rock joked, “Look at the most powerful person in the world – and President Obama is sitting next to her!” at the December 2010 Kennedy Center Honors, there was as much truth as there was...
View Article“Gettysburg” Slips on the Small Screen
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening hostilities of the Civil War, the History Channel is offering up a bevy of programming which kicked off Sunday with the two-hour documentary...
View ArticleAdvice From The Younger Generation
Are you one of those people who goes on their laptops or T.V. all the time? Then this is for you! While you are inside all the time watching T.V. in the summer when it’s a nice day, here is what you...
View ArticleLooking Back at `America in Primetime’
For the next month, starting this Sunday, PBS takes a most interesting four-week look back at America in Primetime, a production of the late Peter Jennings’ Documentary Group, in association with the...
View ArticleTLC Reveals the Lives of `All-American Muslims’
A new and very different kind of reality show that will be premiering this Sunday night at 10pm (ET/PT) on TLC–one that is perhaps the flip-side of Sarah Palin’s recent reality show–called...
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