Time for part 6 of our look at the Emmy nominations process for 2012. As always, Fienberg and I are going to approach things in two ways. I'll pretend that I have an Emmy ballot and make my picks for the s...
I reviewed the first four episodes of "The Newsroom" as a whole on Wednesday, and now that the first episode has aired, I have some specific thoughts on it, coming up just as soon as I take m...
Emily Mortimer spent the first 8 minutes of our 20 minute interview about her role in HBO's "The Newsroom" answering a single question. Of course, it was a question fundamental to her understanding of her ro...
Fast national ratings for Thursday, May 21, 2012.
ABC may have hoped for the Oklahoma City Thunder to push the NBA Finals to a sixth or even seventh game, but they can't complain about the numbers that the five a...
We're into week 4 of our summer trip back through David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood." As always with this project, we're going to have two parallel discussions going at once: ident...
We're into week 4 of our summer trip back through David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood." As always with this project, we're going to have two parallel discussions going at once: ident...
Time for part 5 of our look at the Emmy nominations process for 2012. As always, Fienberg and I are going to approach things in two ways. I'll pretend that I have an Emmy ballot and make my picks for the s...
FX decided to bring "Wilfred" back a week in advance of the rest of its Thursday premieres, and I have a review of tonight's episode coming up just as soon as someone gets this Tic-Tac from under my wheel...
Jeff Daniels hasn't led a predictable career. He's done blockbusters ("Speed") and indies ("The Squid and the Whale"), has done highbrow ("The Purple Rose of Cairo") and lowbrow ("Du...
I had no plans to write anything in advance of the return of FX's "Wilfred" tonight at 10:30, since I already have a review of the first episode ready to go at 11. But then I realized that, like me...
