mysteries
Jonathan Creek Arrives

Today, at long last, Jonathan Creek comes to DVD in the United States. This excellent Brit...

movies
Enchanting Within Limits—Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige”

The latest movie about magic and magicians, The Prestige, opened this past Friday to middl...

movies
America’s REAL Top Sleuths

TV "Best of" lists are usually at best arguable and often fatuous, but the Sleut...

commerce
Madonna’s Crucifixion Reported Cancelled

The American Family Association has announced that NBC TV has decided to delete the mock c...

mysteries
CSI Gets Religion Big-Time

Religion is all over the place on network TV series now. Many programs just can't seem to ...

commerce
The Declining Value of Radio Music Stations

In a comment on my post on The Demise of Oldies on FM radio below, Matt points out that sa...

mysteries
Murder City, and an Unorthodox TV Detective

I've been watching the British ITV mystery series Murder City since it began a few weeks a...

commerce
The Demise of Oldies on FM Radio—and a Look at the Future

  In a comment on my Chuck Berry post (immediately below) "Diskojoe" o...

music
Chuck Berry’s Birthday

Pioneering rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry is eighty years old today.Berry penned some of the ...

movies
Oliver Stone to Revisit 9/11 Aftermath

Oliver Stone, writer-director of numerous melodramatic films, several of which have had co...

sports
The NC False Prosecution Scandal—and What It Means

Your intrepid correspondent went on record early criticizing Durham, North Carolina, prose...

commerce
American TV Popular in “America-Hating” Europe

The reports of an increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Europe may...

commerce
Air America Goes Bankrupt

The left-wing radio network Air America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterd...

manners-and-morals
What Happens in Vegas . . .

Regarding the well-known Las Vegas promotional ads claiming that "What happens in Veg...

manners-and-morals
Fannysmackin’ Our Vegas Mentality

The closing words of tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation express a truly g...

books
How to Bring Back Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is the American mystery.Who?, you ask.Ellery Queen.Still doesn't ring a bell?...

commerce
Vote for Banacek!

One of the best television programs ever was actually three or four programs in one. The N...

manners-and-morals
Best New Show on Television

Most people aren't going to like to hear this, but I think that we are truly in a golden a...

commerce
Katie Couric’s Ratings Plunge

Left-wing news pixie Katie Couric, the first woman to anchor a major network TV nightly ne...

commerce
New TV Program Cancellations Begin—”Dark” Dramas Among First to Go

CBS and NBC have begun chopping low-performing new programs, to go along with Fox's placin...

uncategorized
Paul Hollander on the Persistence of Ideology

I've been out of town again for the past couple of days, this time unexpectedly without in...

uncategorized
NBC’s “Friday Night Lights”—A Must-Watch

I'll be very interested in seeing how the new NBC show Friday Night Lights (Tuesdays, 8 p....

commerce
New TV Series Having Rough Time, Old Standbys Strong

NBC's critically acclaimed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, helmed by superstar producer Aar...

commerce
“Bravo” for the Omniculture

One of the biggest trends of the past couple of decades has been the increasing commercial...

manners-and-morals
Liberty and Culture

I've just returned from a conference on great Americans' contributions to the nation's ong...

uncategorized
The Wanderer. . . .

We're going to be out of the office for a few days, until Monday, and posting may be a bit...

commerce
TV Networks’ Ratings Up—Including Fox

The TV networks' ratings for "premiere week," when many returning shows have the...

commerce
Fox’s New Shows Struggling

The Fox TV network debuts its shows earlier than the others, in an evident effort to get t...

commerce
Magazines Instituting Hiring Freezes

In an effort to show better profitabilty to their corporate conglomerate owners, magazines...

manners-and-morals
“The Gridiron Gang,” the Philosophy of Determinism, and Freedom of the Will

The Gridiron Gang, mentioned immediately below, is a very good film, by the way, well wort...

commerce
Jackass Number 2 Hits Big

Jackass Number 2 was the weekend movie box office champ with an impressive take of $29 mil...

commerce
Nielsen to Report Viewership of TV Commercials

I've written frequently about how technology is changing the media industry—both on ...

sports
ABC Rethinks Saturday Nights, Shuns Babysitters

Saturday night has long been a desert on television because the networks and cable channel...