Monday: The Golden Girls Thank you for being a friend! If it’s Labor Day Monday, that means it’s time for television marathons, and we’ll certainly take a pass by WE to catch a bit of The Golden Girls. Starting at 1 p.m., you can catch dozens of episodes back-to-back (hence the title “marathon”) and remind Read More
On Monday afternoon, when Tommy Haas was struggling in an opening round match, his fiance, Sara Foster, was following every point intently. She kind of sounded like a coach when she shouted things like "Small steps, Tommy! Small steps" and "Keep loose, keep loose" or when she shook her head in disgust after a double Read More
If there is a silver lining to be found in the end of the summertime—not counting the ever-increasing likelihood that we’ll all get the swine flu—it’s that we are on the precipice of the fall television season. Thank goodness. In an effort to get you and your DVR prepared, here’s The Observer’s fall TV Read More
Monday: In Treatment With House (OMG, Kutner!), How I Met Your Mother, 24, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Chuck, Heroes, Medium and Dancing with the Stars all airing within the same three hour block on Monday nights, you probably don’t have a lot of room on your DVR for another show, but In Treatment Read More
Apparently The CW believes absence truly does make the heart grow fonder. After keeping Gossip Girl off the air for six weeks and watching it return with season low ratings, the network has done the same thing to their freshman non-hit, 90210, and is hoping for better results. The fledgling teen soap returns tonight at Read More
Monday: Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 2008 With the exception of Rachel Maddow, no one on television has benefited from the election cycle more than the folks at Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately, the expiration date on their cultural relevancy reads November 5th. As a going away party, Lorne Michaels and NBC are offering this Read More
With the news that The CW is looking to reboot Melrose Place for next year, we know we should be very upset. It's just yet another example, in a long line of examples, where television executives have neither the care, nor sense of originality, to do something different. However! We like this idea!
Fact is, Read More
Rumors of The CW's demise have been slightly exaggerated. While the network is still on shaky ground, they were happy to announce last night that the incredibly hyped and hypnotically mediocre 90210 has been picked up for a full-season order. Despite losing nearly thirty-percent of its record series premiere audience, 90210 has held Read More
We stopped watching the new 90210 after we tried to make it through the first episode and found even we (who happen to have a pretty high threshold for terrible television) couldn’t stomach the god-awfulness of it all. But! Apparently Dylan McKay, that wrinkly-headed dreaminess that was Luke Perry back in the day, is a Read More
More evidence that this fall season of TV is weak: no one is watching anything!
Despite our tremendous affection for HBO's vampire drama True Blood, it tanked in the ratings. We suggested it might be Alan Ball's own personal John From Cincinnati, but it may even be worse: True Blood had fewer than Read More
We were never the biggest 90210 fans. It always seemed too melodramatic and overly serious; as the years have passed on, it's faded in our memory to blurry fragments from a time when Aaron Spelling ruled the earth--the theme song, the pastels, the awful opening credits and the crush we had on Shannen Doherty (we've Read More
Monday: Beverly Hills, 90210 MarathonWe regularly tune in to SoapNet—yes, if you didn't know, there is a cable channel devoted to soaps—on weekend mornings for reruns of Beverly Hills, 90210, that life-lesson-teaching teen drama that accompanied us through high school and college. This has us uniquely prepared for the CW remake (see Tuesday), which will Read More
Thanks to our favorite tv blog, TV Tattle, for alerting us to the Akron Beacon Journal's blog The HeldenFiles Online, where critic Rich Heldenfelds is re-watching the first season of the original Beverly Hills 90210 in anticipation of the new series, which begins in just a few weeks. The writeups are good, but Read More
Ah, while 90210 returns to TV this fall, so do the cat fights! Round 1: Tori Spelling vs. Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty's paychecks! Nikki Finke at DeadlineHollywoodDaily is reporting that Ms. Spelling has been whining about the other original stars getting a bigger paycheck in the new series.
Insiders tell me that Tori was Read More
Jennie Garth, who played blonde cutie Kelly Taylor on the original 90210, will join the cast of the new spinoff on the CW channel. Ms. Garth will play a guidance counselor to the (probably) much more at-risk new West Beverly High kids, according to the Associated Press. On 90210, Ms. Garth became a diet Read More
