Archive for the ‘TV’ Category

Poor Conan

Friday, January 15th, 2010

I'm not sure why I'm so riled up about the situation with the Conan/Jay Tonight Show situation. I just feel really sorry for Conan. He is totally getting screwed by NBC and Jay Leno. NBC didn't give Conan any chance at all to be successful. Financially, the Jay Leno Show ...

Better Off Ted: Followup

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Way back in August 2008, I wrote about a new show called Better Off Ted. It finally premiered about a month or so ago. Before it premiered, ABC was showing commercials for it non-stop. The commercials reminded me a bit of Scrubs, which I found interesting, since they are paired ...

National Turn Off Week

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Apparently, I'm not supposed to watch TV this week. It's National Turn Off Week. I came home from work on Monday and my wife told me about it. I had literally just come through the door. I think if I had taken a drink of water when my wife told ...

Better Off Who?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Apparently, there's going to be a comedy on ABC called Better Off Ted debuting midseason. I know that the name of my blog is a play on the phrase better off dead and I don't have any ownership of that, but I thought the name of my blog was clever and ...

Other Names for Remote Controls

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I saw this article on TV Squad today about nicknames for the remote control. In my house, we either call it "the remote" or "the remote control". I guess we aren't very imaginative. My 4-year old son either can't hear the words "remote control" or just isn't able to pronounce it ...

Verizon FiOS (Finally) Adding New HD Channels

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I've been very patient about the fact that Verizon hasn't added any new HD channels in the last 8 months or so. I'm ecstatic to learn that FiOS has finally gotten their act together and are adding a slew of new HD channels. We are supposed to get the new ...

Pushing Daisies

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

All spring and summer, I had been reading and reading and reading about Pushing Daisies, a new TV show on ABC. I had been reading that it was the highest scoring show ever in focus groups -- or something like that. I had been reading that the show is getting ...

Smallville Season 7 Premiere

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I have a love/hate relationship with the show Smallville. For those who aren't aware, it is a show on The CW in its seventh season that chronicles the life of Clark Kent before he assumes the Superman identity. The quality varies from episode to episode. One week it could be ...

New NBC Pilots

Monday, September 17th, 2007

NBC is offering four new shows free on Amazon's Unboxed digital video download service. If you have a broadband connected Tivo, you can download them straight to the Tivo and watch them on your TV rather than on your PC, which is a nice convenience. The four shows are: Bionic Woman ...

Fall TV Schedule

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Usually, when May rolls around and the networks present their fall schedule, I am totally into it and try to figure out what new shows I'm going to watch in the fall.  I even go far enough to create a fancy grid of all of the old and new shows ...