‘Miss Representation’: where do women find role models?
I’ve written here before about the wonderful documentary programming on the new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), but the film debuting tonight at 9 p.m. — “Miss Representation” — is not up to the high...
View Article‘Mad Men’ + ‘Broadcast News’ + James Bond = ‘The Hour’
BBC America drew sadly small audiences for the first season of the very strong miniseries “The Hour” last year, but they are showing season two this fall, and I strongly urge you to catch up on DVD....
View ArticleFrank Capra + Mary Tyler Moore = ‘The Newsroom’
It’s always amusing to watch smart people nitpick a movie or TV series that dares to deal with their profession. Broadway folk were merciless toward “Smash,” the recently departed NBC musical soap, for...
View ArticleComing: the ‘Difficult Men’ who made TV better than the movies
Faced with a choice this weekend of hitting the neighborhood multiplex to see “The Internship” or staying home to binge-watch some tasty HBO or Showtime or AMC series, who over the age of 25 would opt...
View Article‘House of Cards’: another reason not to go to the movies
The shift of adult storytelling from big Hollywood movies to TV keeps gaining momentum. Recently in this space I wrote about Brett Martin’s wonderful, forthcoming book, “Difficult Men,” about the way...
View ArticleSteve Schirripa talks ‘Sopranos’ & Foxwoods gig
It was fun to catch up with Steve Schirripa before his appearance with other “Sopranos” cast members at Foxwoods tomorrow. For many fans of the landmark HBO series, Schirripa’s character on the show —...
View ArticleHBO repackages ‘The Sopranos’&‘True Blood’
Nothing better illustrates the TV programming changes wrought by cable giant HBO than the just-released complete series packages of “The Sopranos” and “True Blood.” “The Sopranos” represents the...
View ArticleSecond season of ‘Looking’ gets early digital release
HBO has been loosening up its rigid distribution and release patterns in recent months. What was originally a cable-only service was just made available for streaming via Apple devices with the new HBO...
View Article‘TV (The Book)’: picking the 100 best shows
Today, Grand Central Publishing is releasing “(TV) The Book” by Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, and it is sure to trigger arguments over the two critics’ choices of the 100 best shows in the...
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