Two weeks ago, Fox debuted two new shows to the television viewing audience, “Playing it Straight” and “Wonderfalls,” that really are complete opposites: Not only are they completely different in the format (the former being a reality show and the latter being scripted), but they are wildly dissimilar in the tone, delivery, and, unfortunately, overall [...]

OPENING CREDITS: Quotes of the Week Jacquese, the doctor? While “Survivor,” “The Apprentice,” and Jessica Simpson grab all the reality show headlines, MTV’s newest season of “The Real World” is quietly chugging along producing all sorts of fun situations never seen before including multiple characters being arrested and sent to jail for a night. That [...]

Opening Credits: Quotes of the Week Simon’s pissed… Everyone’s favorite obnoxious music executive, Simon Cowell, had a good point when he spouted this beauty of a quote during the most recent elimination round of Fox’s “American Idol 3″ competition. After all, both Randy and Paula weren’t terribly thrilled with the second eight people of the [...]

I’ve had an idea about a new movies related column that I wanted to debut for the last couple of months or so. It was born partially out of Chris Biscuiti’s new Weekly Media Monitor column for 411BLACK and partially out of the fact that for a long time, I have been fascinated with movie [...]

I don’t care what anyone says, syndicated repeats of old television shows can be a viewer’s best friend. As I have been sick and writing my weekly column, I’ve seen two episodes of “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Three’s Company,” three episodes of “The Cosby Show,” and, to top it off, four episodes of one [...]

Being a grad student at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, I have had the chance to read some great books, study some interesting topics, and write some fun papers. This past semester when I wasn’t working to pay the rent and avoiding writing my Master’s Thesis, I spent a great deal of time researching [...]

Several months ago, I was writing for this very website and wanted to come up something flashy, something fun, a recurring feature for the weekly television/movies column I was contributing to the site. I thought about it, read various entertainment periodicals to drum up some ideas for what I could do that was different and [...]

I really wanted to make my next column to be about the new Will Ferrell/Christmas movie, Elf. However, since the release date was more than two weeks ago and I wasn’t able to get to sitting down and communicating my thoughts to the online world until just recently. So, I thought I was going to [...]

Before I start the “official column” this week, I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you that responded to my last column: “It takes character to succeed.” I got more than two-dozen responses, more than any other column I’ve written to date. I’ve decided to revive the “character debate” in a couple [...]

Recently, I was watching Game 5 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS) between my beloved Boston Red Sox and the hated New York Yankees. Since they were losing and facing the (what I thought was…) imminent doom of an “Old Man” John Burkett v. “Big Game” Andy Pettitte matchup. I became immensely distraught not [...]