Among the many television shows scheduled for the upcoming 2017-18 prime time television season is a brand new program from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. No, it’s not another animated series like The Cleveland Show or American Dad! Instead, it’s a science fiction comedy spoof series. In this new FOX TV series, MacFarlane is the…
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So “Timeless” wasn’t cancelled by NBC after all??
Last year, most of the major television networks bombarded us with time travel programs – whether it involved reboots of time travel movies as series (ABC’s Time After Time, the CW’s Frequency), comedy time travel shows (Fox’s Making History) or whole new programs (NBC’s Timeless). And one by one, each show debuted – garnered miserable…
Read MoreThe last, sad, remaining Amish Mafia story
For three years, I had fun reviewing the godawful trashy reality show Amish Mafia, the program that purported to reveal the secret society within a secret society – the crew of enforcers and thugs and gangsters among the Plain Folk of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I had a lot of fun reviewing and snarking on those…
Read MoreMST3K and Reptilicus: AAAH WE’VE GOT MOVIE SIGN AGAIN!!!!
Okay, Netflix, here’s one of the reasons I subscribed to you. Call up the search function. Spell it out with the remote on my Apple TV … “M… Y… S…” Okay, I’ve got The Mysteries of Laura, and – oh wait, here it is. Mystery Science Theater 3000, 2017 Edition. Add this to my “saved”…
Read MoreFeud: Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1960’s
If you’ve been enjoying the FX miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan as much as I have, you know that these two scions of Hollywood acting royalty not only hated each other, but they also hated the situation they were placed in – limited roles for aging actresses and a studio system that treated them as…
Read MoreBuh-bye, Time After Time. You won’t be missed.
Let’s get a few things straight. I outright enjoyed the original Time After Time 1970’s movie; I thought it was well-written and well-cast and exciting. And when ABC announced they were putting together a time-travel drama series based on the 1979 movie, I was psyched. I was stoked. I was hoodwinked. I was fooled. And…
Read MoreRest in peace, Chuck Barris… thanks, Chucky Baby…
There is an old thought that whatever television programs you watched as a kid determines how you grew up. And while I did enjoy my healthy share of Saturday morning cartoons, game shows and sitcoms … Television producer and game show host Chuck Barris could put them all together as one entity. Barris passed away…
Read MoreDid Time After Time throw a new time-travel wrinkle into their show?
I was really looking forward to the new ABC fantasy drama Time After Time, based on the 1979 motion picture about H.G. Wells chasing using a time machine to chase Jack the Ripper to modern times. And although I was kinda feeling the blahs about the show – I mean, the fact that Jack the…
Read MoreStop treating Katie Nolan like crap!!
For the past three years, the Fox Sports cable channel FS1 has aired a quirky, funny, intelligent and self-deprecating sports show called Garbage Time, with host Katie Nolan. It’s arguably one of the best shows on Fox, and Nolan is great as a host and an interviewer, and has lots of interaction and fun with…
Read MoreMST3K flies again on April 14!!
When it comes to television shows, the most popular programs can develop their own special fandom. The Trekkies sand the Trekkors. The Whovians. The Browncoats. Well, maybe not the Browncoats, they get a bit annoying… And then there’s the fandom for a classic television show that still, even in 20-year-old reruns, makes me laugh and…
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