If I were a television show, how long would it be until I were cancelled? I admit, not something to which I’d given much thought, but the quiz was there, so why now? 😉 2.5 Seasons ( 76 Costs, 68 Reception, and 53 Cult Appeal ) Your tale is a tragic one indeed. You startedContinue reading “On Life As a Television Show”
Tag Archives: Television
On a Sign of the Apocalypse
My grandmother is watching The O.C.. She wanted me to sit down and watch it with her. I think I’d rather stab my hand repeatedly with a fork than watch The O.C.. Is this what my life has been reduced to?
On Hugh Laurie's SNL
Hugh Laurie, of Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, and House fame, hosted Saturday Night Live tonight. Unfortunately, it wasn’t especially funny. Laurie’s monologue was amusing. The joke he made about being “bottom” in the Royal Shakespeare Company was quite inspired (even if the audience seemed slow on the uptake). The skit based on Most Haunted wasContinue reading “On Hugh Laurie's SNL”
On Television Shows
Shamelessly stolen from Ross and others: What TV show(s) do you find yourself watching the most?Presently, not that many. The only ones I’m building my week around these days are Boston Legal and House. Television, just not that important to me these days. What if any TV shows do you own on DVD?Chittering Cthulhu, thereContinue reading “On Television Shows”
On Grey's Anatomy
ABC debuted tonight a new medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy, as Boston Legal went on a four-week hiatus. I watched the debut. The show has an attractive cast but I found it horribly cliched. A group of interns fresh out of medical school are beginning their surgical residency at a hospital in Seattle, and Meredith Grey,Continue reading “On Grey's Anatomy”
On Kelsey Grammer's Second Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. Kelsey Grammer is one of the great actors of our time. Frasier is one of the great television programs of all time. Unfortunately, Kelsey Grammer’s second act blows chunks. FOX debuted tonight Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show. Half an hour ofContinue reading “On Kelsey Grammer's Second Act”
On House
From an article in today’s Raleigh’s News & Observer entitled “Fox’s bitter medicine man a hit”– Hugh Laurie was quite likely the last person anyone imagined would star in Fox’s hit medical series “House.” Creator David Shore loved Laurie’s British sketch show “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” but couldn’t imagine that anyone best knownContinue reading “On House”
On Mike Logan
I watched Law and Order: Criminal Intent tonight. Chris Noth–Detective Mike Logan from the first five seasons of the original Law and Order–guest-starred. I don’t usually watch Criminal Intent–Vincent D’Onofrio can be really tough to take. Truthfully, I don’t often watch any of the Law and Order series, though I used to watch every weekContinue reading “On Mike Logan”
Wisdom from the Elizabethean Age
Let us today recall the famous pronouncement of Queen Elizabeth I’s religious advisor, Lord Melchett–“As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport!” Fitting, really. Sums up life nicely.
Mr. St. Nick
I don’t often watch television these days–there’s so little time as it is, and so little I really want to watch–but this evening I saw a made-for-television film on ABC Family entitled Mr. St. Nick and starring Kelsey Grammer. The premise was simple–Grammer was Nick St. Nicholas, eligible bachelor and millionairre fundraiser. He was alsoContinue reading “Mr. St. Nick”