I’ve begun wondering if one of the main reasons we have so many military operations throughout the world is simply to fill the otherwise bottomless chatter voids during Holiday sportscasts and special events with good cheer and well wishes from and to the troops. TV EXECUTIVE: “What do you mean we’re not at war anywhere, […]

Image copyright BBC How cool is the new Sherlock show from the BBC? Doctor Who show-runner, Steven Moffat(Doctor Who, Jekyll) and Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen) take the bastard brilliance of Sherlock Holmes and jam in modern time, casting Martin Freeman (Office, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as Doctor Watson. I do not actually know […]

Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald. The Kids in the Hall was a monster, monster moment in television history for me. Their comedy was like an intricately woven blood red and brown gold wreath made by a forlorn gen-x bisexual, dark strange ideas poured over with an eye-foaming lightheartedness that did […]

So far through its first season, Caprica, the prequel spin-off of Battlestar Galactica, has proven a very unique and satisfying series. Taking place on a relatively peaceful Caprica, around the same time as the invention of the Cylons, but well before their cataclysmic wars with humanity, the series is filled with so many of its […]