NotesThe problem is that âWhitneyâ is a terrible show, though in ways that resonate with our cultureâs debates about women and humor. Like so many comedians on TV, Cummings plays an off-brand version of herself, an acerbic photographer with a live-in boyfriend. She resists pressure to marry; she and her dude bicker over household habits; they party with friends at a local night club. But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.FeedUnfurl
Notes"Ars' own Julian Sanchez has deciphered a code embedded into the TV show Fringe. Bad Robot, the production company that created the Fox TV show, has been integrating puzzles and easter eggs into shows like Lost for years. Fringe, its freshman sci-fi/mystery which resumes Tuesday night on Fox, presented a particular challenge to viewers. It integrates a series of visual clues before commercial breaks. Sanchez determined that these images represented a simple cipher, building up to a single word per episode tying into the theme of that show."Unfurl
Notes"Following in the footsteps of "Real People" (1979), this show took a look at the more unusual sides of nature, medicine and human endeavor. Segments ranged from the uplifting (young people overcoming severe handicaps to lead normal lives) to the unexplainable (a park ranger who had been hit by lightning over 7 times) to the simply stupid (a stunt man jumping a motorcycle over the spinning rotors of 3 helicopters). Popularized the phrase "don't try this at home.""Unfurl
Notes"The Retro Television Network (RTN) is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s, such as Leave it to Beaver, Kojak, McHale's Navy, Adam-12, Emergency!, and The Rockford Files.The network is specifically designed to air on a digital subchannel for a local broadcast station, allowing channels an easy way to expand their programming options. With the 2009 switch to digital television drawing closer, RTN has added many affiliates in 2007 and 2008."FeedUnfurl
NotesDamn. The crappy new Knight Rider continues on, yet shows like Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls get cancelled. ""I think the writersâ strike did it," Chenoweth (Daisies' Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. "I think that the ratings for all the shows are poor this year, and itâs not what the networks were hoping for. Iâm not sure why ABC decided to ax our show. I know they donât own us, so I know that probably has something to do with it, but who knows?""Unfurl
Notes"Nerds are renowned the world over for our extensive knowledge of possibly useless trivia, our obsessive devotion to our favorite books and films, and our resulting difficulties communicating with non-nerds. Thanks to modern internet culture, however, these days everyone is a nerd. And nowhere is that more evident than in these great moments from troubled urban fantasy show Pushing Daisies â where our hero is a Jedi wannabee slash zombie rights activist, and our Japanese-speaking heroine reads everything in sight."Unfurl
NotesAll of you bastards out there need to start watching this show. "I wish that headline wasn't true, but the ratings back me up; not enough people are watching ABC's Pushing Daisies. Bryan Fuller's secretly twisted yet romantic detective show may bring the dead back to life on a regular basis, but it also goes out of its way to prove Isaac Newton and Stan Lee right every week as well. Hilarious, more cynical than you might expect and with the best ensemble cast on television right now, we're giving you four reasons why it's time to put your preconceptions aside and get onboard the Pie Wagon before it's too late."Unfurl
Notes"Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution."Unfurl
Notes"Doctor Who has been named TV's longest-running sci-fi show, after 43 years and 723 episodes, according to the Guinness Book of Records."FeedUnfurl
Notes"It is also apparent that AACS will give the option of a computer/player "phoning home" if so chosen, so verify you got a good copy. Fuck that right in the ear. I will never do that, either."Unfurl
Notes"When Katey Sagal visited The Late Late Show the other day, she told Craig that the show is coming back to Comedy Central in 2008 for at least 13 episodes"Unfurl
Notes"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem and he's cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians."Unfurl
Notes"Users can purchase a Multi-Pass to either show for US$9.99 and receive the next 16 episodes just as if they had purchased them individually, but at a substantial discount off the $31.84 they would cost if purchased one at a time. "Unfurl
Notes"I wanted to take a second and explain exactly how Iâm using RSS and Bittorrent to download the television shows I watch, otherwise known as broadcatching."Unfurl
NotesOuch. "John Schneiderâwhose character of Jonathan Kent played a key role in Smallville's 100th episode, which aired Jan. 26âtold SCI FI Wire that he knew what was coming, but used his mixed emotions to fuel his performance."Unfurl
Notes"...David Cross hits the nail on the head in this clip which seems to be a tailor made reponse to Fox who yesterday pulled the plug on the critically acclaimed show"Unfurl
Notes"Is it possible that the economics of television assume a passive audience thatâs willing to watch ANYTHING as long as they donât need to move?"Unfurl
Notes"A year and a half of writing and sweat and production disappeared down the TV pilot hole..." Well, shit. I was really looking forward to that oneUnfurl
NotesGuy claims it made him vomit, become dizzy and light-headed, bump his head on a doorway, and apparently lose all ability to change TV channels.Unfurl
NotesThe new channel is really very sad. TechTV, with all its original shows and filler, was quickly taking over as one of my standby channels. I'll miss the real content they had on TSS.Unfurl
Notes"And damned if it wasnât a corporate suit that killed this vampire, signing off on the showâs demise with a pen that might as well have been a wooden stake through the heart."Unfurl
NBCâs âWhitneyâ and CBSâs â2 Broke Girlsâ : The New Yorker
Ars cracks TV Fringe code - Ars Technica
Retro Television Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sources: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Canceled - E! Online
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