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A completely different look at television from
our own Neena Louise.
What a strange television season 2009-2010 is turning out to be! All previous conventions have been thrown out the window: reruns are pretty much nonexistent; one reality cycle ends and the next one begins immediately (So You Think You Can Dance, Survivor and The Biggest Loser for example); new shows were introduced in January (Human Target, The Deep End); some returning shows aren't showing up until February (Lost); others air a few episodes, then vanish for months (Glee, FlashForward, V). Even President Obama allegedly moved his State of the Union address so as not to clash with Lost's season premiere!...more
Late Night TV Smackdown
I'm not much of a late-night talk
show watcher, but I'm most intrigued by the brouhaha caused by the
failure of Jay Leno's 10 pm talk show. It's been a long time since
there's been such a ruckus over a show and NBC is not handling it
well as it tries to save face. As this is written, nothing has been
confirmed, but the rumor is that Jay Leno will retake The
Tonight Show and Conan O'Brien
will be unceremoniously tossed out. Though I am a fan of neither,
this is just so wrong on so many levels...more
Dance is everywhere on television today. I guess
many people (including myself) enjoy good dance.
However, so desperate are the networks to give
people dance, the "good" part is starting to
fall by the wayside. Here's a rundown of some of
the dance and song-and-dance shows that have
been offered in the last season and a half.
Though I generally stick to the Big Four
networks, I'm including cable because they had
some of the silliest...more
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Green Yourself I'm sick to death of it. |
Top 10 TV Annoyances My top ten television annoyances |
The "Other" 2008 Summer Olympics |
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Hype of Epidemic Proportions It seems everything is an epidemic these days...more |
Seasonal
Blues Last season ended on a down note for Neena...more |
Nothing Lost I admit it. I was a Lost fan. For all of one season...more |
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To Be
Continued Unbelievably Unnecessary Gimmicks |
The Winter Olympics: U.S. vs Canada The weirdest Winter Olympics ever |
It's
Really Summer The dearth of summer programming |
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Realer than Real Adding soft porn to the reality glut. |
Entertainment Businesses' Motto: "Bugger Off" |
Mini-me TV The new mini seasons |
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The Decline of TV Guide What has happened to TV Guide? |
Network Boardroom Speak What the memos must look like |
Destroying a Memory The digital removal of the World Trade Center |
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Summer Reality Watch if you dare! |
Tsunami Sweeps Good Taste Out To Seas |
Breaking The Law...It's A Good Thing Martha Stewart's Saga |
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The Swan An Ugly Series |
Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four Puh-leeze.... |
The Boob Tube Breasteses! |
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Where's The Show The New Season Sucks |
The Jiggle Factor Spike TV |
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out |
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The New Reality With a corresponding loss in IQ Points |
The New Reality American Idolotry II |
All War, All The Time Exploitation? |
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Rip-off Artists? Protecting Whose Interests? |
90 Minutes Of Tedium Whats The Point |
Dating Shows Mindless Drives |
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CSI: Miami I See Dead Series.. |
Bah Humbug! Too much Christmas Hype |
Sniper Sensitivity, Or Censorship? |
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September 11th Thoughts One Year Later |
American Idolatry Been Sucked In? |
The New Season Everything Old Is New Again. |
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Surreality TV I wonder just how "real" reality television is. |
Survey Says Where do these surveys come from? |
Tick Tick Too Much Clutter |
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Rerun Wasteland TV's Summer Rerun Wasteland |
Odious People People That I Wouldn't Care if I Never Saw on TV Again |
Unlucky 13 13 first-run episodes per year? |
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And the winner is... I'm already sick of the awards |
Critical Mass Critics Schmitics |
Destroying a Memory A Disturbing Trend |
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Anthrax, Shmanthrax! |
This Just In The news is no longer new. |
The Decline of TV Guide They want how much per issue? |
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T.V. Cyberia TV Websites are a virtual wasteland. |
Crime and Punishment "Cops-and-robbers" shows are back. Should they be? |
If I were king of TV. A television wish list. |
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The 2004 Olympic Games No Perfect Scores Here |
English as She is Spoke English subtitles for people speaking English |
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? I need a priority check. |
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Stop The Presses Repetitive exploitive WTC footage must stop. |
What's New Copycat? -
WHOAAAA!! Over cloning of television shows leads to in-bred defectives |
I'm OK, You're OK Political correctness is out of control. |
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Reality...What a Concept! The phenomenon of reality TV. |
What's the Final Answer? The intriguing success of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? |
The Incredibly Shrinking
Credits The deplorable practice of meddling with credits. |
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NBC's Olympic Non-Coverage The 2000 Olympic Summer Games: NBC should be ashamed. |
La-La-Lame The decline of television theme music. |
Bugged by Bugs Why station and network identification bugs should be exterminated. |
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TV Unclothed Naked skin is not pornography! |
Curses! So-called "swear words" are no longer taboo. |
75 Channels and
Nothing On The decline of cable television. |
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The Emaciation Trend The skinny on the skinny. |
A Word from our Sponsors A sampling of ads that go thud |
Click This Should television be directing people to the Internet? |
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You Talk Too Much TV talk shows aren't what they used to be. |
TV or Not TV? Those that don't watch must tell. |
If It Bleeds, It Leads Is TV too violent? Only on the news. |
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It's Not My Fault How television is fueling the "nothing is my fault" attitude. |
Who Wants to
Trash a Millionaire? Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?: TV sinks to new depths. |
Sweep it Away! Making the case for a sweeps-free season. |
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It's Saturday Morning. Do You
Know Where Your Kids Are? What happened to Saturday morning cartoons? |
Top 20 TV Promo Turnoffs A primer on how not to attract a crowd. |
Why Network TV Bites At least it's free. |
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Vote for Me, I'm on TV Television news' embarrassing election coverage. |
Only $19.95! But Wait! There's
More!.... Network television's incessant hawking of merchandise. |
Oprah: What Hast Thou Become? The rise and fall of Oprah Winfrey. |
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Viewer Discretion
advised Who should be issuing content warnings? |
Don't Try This At Home Pulling the rug out from under home improvement shows. |
Network TV's Desperate
Days All the hype in the world can't save bad television. |
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Tempted? Don't Be! Temptation Island? Bah! More like Tempted to Bash the Television. |
CA$H TV Network greed at its finest. |
Big Brother? Oh, Brother! Big Brother - the worst of reality television. |
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Critical Mass Does what critics say make a difference? |
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People That I Wouldn't Care if I
Never Saw on TV Again The most odious people on television. |
If A Writer Strikes and No One
Cares, Does it Make a Sound? Viewer apathy strikes the writers' strike. |
Now is the Season of
Our Discontent Why the television season starts in the Fall. |
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