Having achieved success with medical dramas on Thursdays and situation comedies on Wednesdays, along with some popular reality shows, ABC has set its sights on another TV staple in the past couple of years: crime dramas. It has a winner in Castle (Mondays, 10 p.m. EDT) and experienced a couple of audience failures with two very good shows, The Unusuals and The Forgotten. All three of those shows were a little off the beaten path, a bit quirky, not the ordinary run of police procedural.…
As ABC attempts to solidify its popular block of Wednesday sitcoms, the new show Better with You premiered last night, nestled comfortably between returning ratings successes The Middle and Modern Family. Thematically, Better with You makes sense as a transition between the funny but Heartland-values-oriented The Middle at 8 and the spicier 9 o’clock block of Modern Family and Cougar Town. Judging by the pilot episode, however, it’s not as funny as the others. The concept is interesting and has potential. It deals with three…
If you don’t watch ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox, you’re in luck: you’re aging more slowly than those who do. At least, that’s the gist of this poorly worded AP headline: “Broadcast audience aging faster than population.” We knew the cable networks embraced the youth culture, but who knew they could actually help one maintain that youthful shine longer.
It began with an eye opening. It ended with an eye closing. In “The End,” love conquered all. It’s a cliche, of course, but a time-honored one and it worked to brilliant effect in the series finale of “Lost,” which aired Sunday night on ABC. (This isn’t a recap, but spoilers will follow…) Millions of us followed these characters, led by Jack Shepherd (Matthew Fox), for six seasons as they struggled first to leave, and then to return, to the mysterious island where Oceanic 815…
A few weeks back, the Obama administration declared that it “strongly supports House passage of H.R. 4626. The repeal of the antitrust exemption in the McCarran-Ferguson Act as it applies to the health insurance industry …” The House overwhelmingly passed the bill 406-19. If only those votes came from a principle against crony-capitalism, in which the ability to navigate Washington DC’s halls of power is more important than delivering good customer service. If that were the case then these same pols would repeal the asinine…
ABC’s Life on Mars police drama-fantasy stumbled badly tonight in pursuit of a political agenda.
ABC TV’s American version of the much-lauded BBC police drama Life on Mars is off to a good start, but sustaining the show’s quality will be difficult.
ABC’s new fall series based on the BBC time-traveling police drama Life on Mars debuts October 9. If it can stand comparison with the original, it will be an extraordinary accomplishment indeed.
The new ABC comedy Cavemen premiered last night. As you probably know, it’s based on the amusing commercials for GEICO insurance, which feature cavemen living in the contemporary United States, with one frequently taking offense at being considered unintelligent. The series, by contrast, centers on the cavemen’s fish-out-of-water condition as they navigate the contemporary dating world. Much of the narrative centers on the cavemen’s concerns that other people may be prejudiced toward them. I suppose it could be funny or meaningful, but it isn’t.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has declared that the U.S. television networks are not "gay" enough but that Disney-owned ABC is getting close. The organization, which has been highly successful at bullying corporations into supporting a radical pro-homosexual agenda, issued its first report on the matter after analyzing "the number of ‘impressions,’ or occurrences, of gay characters, discussions or themes counted during 4,693 hours of programming examined from June 2006 through May 2007," according to Reuters:
Actor Isaiah Washington, fired from ABC TV program Gray’s Anatomy, one of the top-rated shows on television, for calling a fellow actor a "faggot," may soon have a new job. Washington is in reportedly "sorting through" numerous offers of television and movie projects, and is leaning toward an undisclosed opportunity at NBC. Meanwhile, Washington has argued that the offended actor, T. R. Knight, used the incident to exploit a pro-homosexual spirit in Hollywood in order to bolster his own position on the show.
For calling a fellow actor a "fag" during an argument with still another actor, Isaiah Washington has been fired from ABC television’s highy popular series Grey’s Anatomy. Washington released the following public statement in regard to the firing: "I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore." T. R. Knight, the openly homosexual actor whom Washington had referred to with the epithet, will remain with the show, earning $125,000 per episode. Washington had made the usual round of apologies after the incident…
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