Entries Tagged as ‘TV’

May 22, 2009

A walk down ‘Idol’ lane

 

[Photo courtesy of L.A. Times]
I vowed not to watch another season of American Idol, but here I am, the end of May, having plowed through another season. I wasn’t planning to watch this year, but as the weeks went on, I figured I needed something to compare Season Seven to, so I began to [...]

January 10, 2008

Goodbye, Gossip Girl

I don’t watch Gossip Girl for a peek of the ‘hood in which I spent my adolescence, not for the wholesome beauty that is Leighton Meester, not for the mousy one that is Blake “Blair sounds too much like Blake” Lively, and not for the attractive Abercombie & Fitch models-cum-Upper East Siders (or, in the [...]

January 7, 2008

TV Running Dry

[Photo courtesy of NYmag.com]
Leno and Conan chose a good time to return to their posts in late night television; television is gradually running out. The first casualties of the writer’s strike were Women’s Murder Club last Friday (a huge loss?), Desperate Housewives yesterday and Gossip Girl tomorrow – followed by more favorites: CSI, Grey’s [...]