Take The City And Run

I can’t claim I was a big fan of Tracy Morgan during his time on SNL. But I’ve become a big fan of 30 Rock. However, now I have to ask myself how much of his character, “Tracy Jordan,” is actually a performance:

via TV Squad

I’ve recently been watching three HBO series on DVD: The Sopranos, Deadwood, and Entourage. And I’ve really been struck by the similarities. Tonally and stylistically, they are quite different, but the way they all deal with the application of power and personality is striking. All three feature characters who do much of their business behind […]

I totally fucking cannot wait for Aaron Sorkin’s new show, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. It’s got Bradly damned Whitford and two other familiar faces from The West Wing: Timothy Busfield and Matthew Perry. I’m even willing to give Amanda Peet and D.L. Hughley — neither of which I’m normally a great fan of […]

The Chappelle Theory will surely float the boat of the conspiracy theorists out there… or just fans who miss Chappelle’s Show.
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Hopefully, all you Zombie movie fans out there have Showtime. Joe Dante’s episode of Masters Of Horror sounds interesting, to say the least. From the Village Voice:
In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who […]

According to Yahoo! News/Reuters, Fox has officially decided to cut and run from Arrested Development. Let’s see: hilariously funny, well-written/acted/produced, critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning. All good reasons for cancellation, obviously. But, of course, the real reason for the move is that the show’s ratings have, unfortunately, never been as great as the network would have liked. […]

Current attorney general and future governor of New York State Eliot Spitzer will be on The Colbert Report tonight.

Two years after leaving his creation, The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin is back with a show that sounds extremely exciting. His new show will deal with the behind-the-scenes action of a Saturday Night Live-like televion show called Studio 7 On The Sunset Strip. Curiously enough, the show will be on NBC:
The West Wing ticket […]

The Colbert Réport (don’t pronounce the t’s — “It’s French, bitch!”) premiered Monday night after The Daily Show. And, after only two shows, the newly-enhanced — Colbert was formerly a “correspondent” on The Daily Show — tag-teaming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is already proving itself an inspired hourlong coupling.
Tuesday night’s […]

Directed by Stephen Hopkins, 2004viewed October 11, 2005 [DVD]IMDb listing
Peter Sellers, as portrayed in the HBO film The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, was a man gifted with the ability to create new and extreme identities for himself, yet unable to maintain his own. Perhaps the conceit is nothing new, but the film is […]

My Name Is Earl, when you get right down to the bare bones of it, is a pretty sappy show. Or at least, each of the first three episodes has ended on that sort of note. But what else would you expect from a show for which the premise is that good deeds performed […]

Tonight’s episode of MTV’s Made, featuring Brittany, who “looks like your typical punk girl, but she’s a nice kid who wishes that her peers could see her softer side… [and is] ready to be MADE into her school’s Prom Queen” got some good press.
And whataya know? Jenny worked on this episode as well. Interesting […]