Archive for the ‘angel’ Category

Before the age of DVRs, I used to watch commercials. In fact, during certain times of the season, I used to sit glued to the TV during commercials. I didn’t run to grab a snack or take a bathroom break. I sat, watched and waited with the VCR — that’s the thing that uses videotapes [...]

Entertainment Weekly recently put up a gallery of reader-submitted canceled, but still missed TV shows. Looking through the gallery was like looking at a collage of every show I’ve ever loved and lost. There were some omissions — Everwood, Pasadena, Profit, Miracles, Firefly, Cupid, Karen Sisco, Dead Like Me — but for the most part, [...]

1.) Kansas City folks! Yes, you too can get in on the Q&As. TV Barn’s Aaron Barnhart will be holding a Q&A with Sarah Fain and Liz Craft, who were writers for Angel and writers/producers on The Shield. Until recently, they were executive producers on Women’s Murder Club, but were let go, freeing them up [...]

They’re sneaky and snarky. They scheme and slay. TV is full of bad guys (and girls), from those who make being bad look like fun to those who make us clutch the pillow to our chests. It takes some excellent writing and an excellent performance to make a bad guy who is a worthy opponent [...]

Every year, the The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio, hosts The William S. Paley Television Festival. The event features screenings and panel discussion with the casts and creative teams of TV’s most popular, influential and critically lauded shows. In a recent press release, The Paley Center [...]

It’s been a bumpy television season full of winners, disappointments and a lot of forgetful folks. Some shows stumbled right out of the gate while others took steady steps towards a full-season pickup. The TV season is nearing the halfway mark when most of the shows go into reruns, an indefinite period of torture this [...]

When Spider-Man broke box office records in 2002, it ushered in a wave of comic book movies into the mainstream. Watching the dollars roll in, movie studios jumped on every comic book character they could think of and, for the most part, regular folks young and old (comic aficionados or not) have been eating it [...]