Big cheers for Leno's comic relief
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Julie Hinds
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Jay Leno's free show at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Tuesday night started with a roar when Kid Rock hit the stage to introduce "The Tonight Show" host. And it ended with more cheers when, about 90 minutes later, Leno had the lights turned up to say a few words to the ...
‘Southland,' premiering Thursday on NBC
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Verne Gay
Newsday (MCT) - REASON TO WATCH: "ER's" replacement, in one of network's TV legendary time periods. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The Los Angeles Police Department patrols about 500 squares with a force that numbers just 9,000, and we know this because "Southland" tells us even before the opening credits. Told ...
Thoughts on ER's Last Episode
Catholic Media Review
4/8/2009, by Christine Schult
I have been a fan of ER since the beginning, all 15 years, so I wanted to share some thoughts on the final episode last night. I was touched by a few life issues that I saw. Ernest Borgnine played a man whose wife was dying (they were also on a couple of episodes ago).
He explained that he's ...
‘Guiding Light': Soap's fade from TV guided by brutal economics
McClatchy Newspapers
4/6/2009, by Phil Rosenthal
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - CBS announced last week that it is pulling the plug on "Guiding Light" in September after 57 years on TV, and 15 years before that on radio. Created in Chicago by Irna Phillips, the daytime drama is an institution. Yet the ax long was poised to fall. Despite a production ...
‘Harper's Island,' premiering Thursday on CBS
McClatchy Newspapers
4/2/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Agatha Christie is prime-time's new muse. Chalk that up as progress. Christie's Miss Marple is a model for HBO's "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." Christie's "And Then There Were None" inspires "Harper's Island," debuting at 10 p.m. EDT Thursday on CBS.
Ah, "Harper's ...
History meets soap opera on Showtime's ‘The Tudors'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The historical soap opera that is "The Tudors" continues Sunday on Showtime. And what would a soap opera be without some new rogues and romances? This third season of the premium channel series about the life of Henry VIII gets a little more wicked through the ...
‘Osbournes: Reloaded,' premiering Tuesday on Fox
McClatchy Newspapers
3/30/2009, by Verne Gay
Newsday (MCT) - REASON TO WATCH: Strictly for Osbournes fans only, and even then ... WHAT IT'S ABOUT: A variety show, with gags, musical guests, comedy bits, and on and on, fronted by the Osbournes _ Sharon, Ozzy, Jack and Kelly. Fox declined (wisely) to offer any sort of meaningful look of the ...
Networks are unlikely to deliver another ‘ER'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/30/2009, by Phil Rosenthal
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - You can imagine the long afternoon for advertisers at New York's Lincoln Center in May 1994. NBC was unveiling its fall slate. Network execs talked up such fare as "The Cosby Mysteries," "Earth 2," "Madman of the People" and "The Martin Short Show." In the mix was a new ...
We'll miss the drama: ‘ER' bids farewell
McClatchy Newspapers
3/30/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - In 1994, a network drama about Chicago doctors struggling to save patients and salvage their personal lives, wheeled into a luxurious Thursday-night slot, prepped to take its place as one of TV's most popular destinations. It was called "Chicago Hope."
David E. ...
New sitcoms aren't likely to bring happy days back to ABC
McClatchy Newspapers
3/27/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - How did ABC lose the gift for sitcoms? The network of "Bewitched," "Happy Days" and "Barney Miller" can't come up with a half-hour hit these days. It's a pity, because a blockbuster sitcom like "Roseanne" or "Home Improvement" could lift the Disney-owned network.
ABC ...
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