20 Jul 2014
Horrigan: A preview of the fall's least-watchable TV shows
Every year at this time, the nation’s television critics descend upon the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles (“a glamorous posh oasis,” it calls itself) for two or three weeks of sitting around a hotel ballroom and taking press tours, meeting and greeting TV stars and executives and writing about the fabulously great shows planned in the coming season.
If I had to do this, I would jump off a cliff.
However, I love reading what the critics write. I love this even though I hardly ever watch any of these shows until they show up on Netflix and usually not then, either. After a certain number of years on this planet, you find that you no longer are the sort of person to whom advertisers want to sell stuff so nothing that they sponsor appeals to you. This is actually something of a relief.
However, I love reading what the critics write. I love this even though I hardly ever watch any of these shows until they show up on Netflix and usually not then, either. After a certain number of years on this planet, you find that you no longer are the sort of person to whom advertisers want to sell stuff so nothing that they sponsor appeals to you. This is actually something of a relief.
'BAPs' TV show sheds different light on African-American experience in St. Louis
“BAPs,” St. Louis’ latest foray into reality TV, is ready for its national debut.
The Lifetime series follows a group of affluent African-American friends over the course of six hour-long episodes beginning Wednesday.
The cast proclaims itself as BAPs or Black American Princesses and Princes, a description that has raised the ire of some potential viewers. (The show has no connection to the 1997 Halle Berry comedy “B.A.P.S.”)
“The Current Books Are Straight-Up Continuations Of The Classic TV Shows” – Brandon Jerwa Talks Bionic Woman
With the recent success of the Six Million Dollar Man: Season Six, Dynamite is taking the obvious next step and giving the Bionic Woman a fourth season in comics. Series writer Brandon Jerwa sat down with Byron Brewer to talk about what he has in mind for Jamie Sommers.
BYRON BREWER: This will be the second Bionic Woman series from Dynamite, the first being in continuity with its re-imagined Bionic Man series. But this is the actual continuation of the popular TV series, right? A fourth “season”?
Pudsey the Dog: the Movie review – relentlessly tacky BGT spin-off
A thoroughly depressing 'comedy' vehicle for the four-legged Britain's Got Talent winner
Look, I'm as ready as the next man to be entertained by the sight of a dog standing on its hind legs doing pirouettes, or a pig dressed as a chicken attempting to lay an egg and accidentally taking a dump. But nothing can explain (or excuse) the sheer skull-scraping ugliness of this relentlessly tacky Britain's Got Talent spin-off. The story nominally follows a dysfunctional family's move to the country with a sausage-hungry dog (abysmally voiced by David Walliams) in tow, and a lairy lord of the manor (John Sessions, channelling Uncle Monty) in waiting.
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