Camp is dead, and you’re invited to its autopsy the Monday after the Super Bowl. That’s when the new NBC series Smash premieres (though it's already available online). The drama takes place behind the scenes of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe, following the cast and crew through their various personal and professional travails, Read More
Are you surprised that New Yorker publications love liberal TV? Not really? That's okay, it's still interesting to read up on the Experian-Simmons survey that measured consumer's TV preferences against their political ideology and then spat out a bunch of shows that determine how liberal or conservative you are. Surprisingly (not surprisingly), most New York media favor the programs only watched by people who voted for Obama and support green initiatives.
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As hoards of teenagers gathered outside the new New York Observer building, complete with campy concession stand and various fan accessories, the only conclusion we could draw was that they must have heard about this afternoon's midtown west broker's event.
While the crowds might have had something to do with the Glee stars rumored to be stopping by Read More
The New York Times announces that Jane Lynch is set to write a memoir, entitled Happy Accidents. The book, due in spring, will, of course, cover her current awards-magnet work on Glee, as well as her struggle with alcoholism and accepting her homosexuality. Thankfully, it will also discuss her early roles in Christopher Guest's Read More
5 Fearless Emmy Predictions: Glee, Amy Poehler and Read More
The list of Hollywood stars that have either appeared on Glee (Neil Patrick Harris, Kristin Chenowith) or are rumored to appear on Glee (Katy Perry, Katie Holmes, anyone else named Katie/Katy, Britney Spears) are pretty much exactly who you would expect -- some mix of singers, dancers, actors and people just famous enough to give Read More
Maybe we're being a bit finicky, but we have a problem with critics around the interwebs hailing 2009 as one of the strongest years for television in recent memory. Quite the contrary: from where we sit, this year felt decidedly weak. Perennial favorites, like Lost and How I Met Your Mother, were saddled by disappointing Read More
Call us crazy—or maybe a little loopy—but we might be more excited for the Golden Globes than we are for the Oscars and the Emmys combined. Think about it: not only will everyone from our favorite movies (yes, that was a nomination for The Hangover in the Best Comedy category!) and television shows be together—at Read More
For the most obvious news of the fall, allow us to direct you to a recent Los Angeles Times article about dwindling television ratings. As it turns out, people aren't watching TV like they used to, unless it falls under the moniker of the NCIS franchise (how did that happen?).
That Glee is arguably Read More
We found ourselves kinda stunned by what happened on television last night. No, not that Republican congressman Joe Wilson heckled the president of the United States during his address to the joint session on Congress—seriously? “You lie?” This isn’t a town hall meeting in South Carolina, buddy!—but that we really found ourselves falling in Read More
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
If there's a silver lining to be found in the end of the summertime—besides the opportunity to retire our flip-flops!—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 preview. We’ve already covered CBS and Read More
Just how confident is Fox in its new hour-long musical comedy Glee (premiering tonight at 9), from Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy? Not only have they moved the premiere episode of the fall series up to spring, they’re airing it immediately following tonight’s final performance edition of American Idol. Add to that the effusive praise critics Read More
The similarities between the spring television season and August, the month on the Hollywood calendar when movie studios dump their untouchables, are kind of freaky. Didn’t the moderately successful premiere of Castle feel like a bad Nicolas Cage movie? Doesn’t In the Motherhood sound like some interminable Anna Faris comedy? Is Harper’s Read More
