mysteries
Monk and Psych Return

 Tonight brings the season premieres of the mystery-comedy shows Monk and Psych on US...

commerce
“Hot Ghetto Mess” TV Program Under Fire

At least two companies have pulled their ads from the upcoming July 25 premiere of the Bla...

mysteries
A Series of Appealing Mysteries

The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemn...

commerce
“Fairness Doctrine” Defeated Again–for Now

The Fairness Doctrine, which allows Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to ...

manners-and-morals
Fired Actor Plays Race Card

Fleeing headlong to the last refuge of a particular type of scoundrel, actor Isaiah Washin...

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Actor Fired After Homosexual Furor Is Putting Career Back in Order

Actor Isaiah Washington, fired from ABC TV program Gray's Anatomy, one of the top-rated sh...

television
The Andy Griffith Show

I don't want to leave this buried in the comments section, so I'll put this here on the ma...

commerce
Media Getting Dirtier But Easier to Clean Up

The media are exposing children to too much overly sexual and violent content, but parents...

commerce
Biased BBC

Not that it should surprise anybody, a year-long internal investigation by the British Bro...

mysteries
About That “Sopranos” Ending . . .

Sometimes ignorance helps. Not being a regular viewer of The Sopranos, upon viewing the en...

manners-and-morals
A Great Father

For those who have not yet seen it, here's my contribution to today's National Review Onli...

commerce
Hating the American Dream

 It appears that I am nearly the only person in the United States who never cared abo...

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ABC Enforces Homosexual Protection Rule

For calling a fellow actor a "fag" during an argument with still another actor, ...

commerce
More Progress on “Jericho” TV Program Return

As we noted two weeks ago, CBS television has been contemplating resurrecting the series J...

commerce
Hollywood Politics—A Substitute Religion

Lars Walker has placed a very insightful comment on my post on recent Hollywood movies, im...

commerce
The Foul Odor Emanating from Time Warner

In a comment on our Turner Classic Movies post below, Mike Tooney says, "If the gay a...

commerce
Classic Movie Channel Goes Gay

Former National Review editor and journalist extroardinaire John O'Sullivan has frequently...

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What TV Networks Owe Loyal Viewers

Do producers and TV networks have an obligation to their viewers?Producers and networks ar...

commerce
Why Movie Characters Smoke So Much

In a comment on our entry on Hollywood censorship of smoking, Lars Walker points out that ...

genres
The Politics of Jerry Falwell

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a televison evangelist and moral activist, died today at the age o...

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Hollywood to Censor Smoking

 The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking ...

commerce
FCC’s Claims of TV Violence Problem Are Phony, Records Show

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's claims that excessive television violence req...

commerce
ION Network to Be Sold—Potential Cultural Asset Wasted

One of the most woefully underutilized cultural assets of the past few years has been the ...

commerce
FCC Urges Congress to Ignore Bill of Rights—So What’s New?

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as follows:Congress shall make no law r...

commerce
Ratings Down for Top Network TV Shows—But Viewership Remains Steady

The networks' top evening TV programs suffered serious viewership ratings losses in the pa...

commerce
Rosie Gone—for Now

ABC Television has announced that Rosie O'Donnell, controversial host of the daytime show ...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Batman Begins . . . Again

[I ran across a DVD of the movie Batman Begins recently and was reminded of how representa...

television
Hustle, Season 4, ep. 1

The first episode of the new season of Hustle, the excellent British-American co-productio...

commerce
AOL a TV Network?

AOL announced yesterday that it is introducing a slate of programs positioning it as a bro...

television
The Con Is On Again

The excellent AMC/BBC-TV series Hustle returns tonight at 10 EST. Tonight's episode commen...

commerce
The Double Standard Regarding Offensiveness

As stated here two days ago (see below), radio host Don Imus's characterization of the Rut...

manners-and-morals
An Opportunity to Show Model Behavior

It has been announced that the Rutgers University ladies' basketball team will appear on t...

manners-and-morals
The Odious Offense of Don Imus

A commenter asked for our thoughts on the Don Imus affair, and we shall be happy to oblige...