After CBS cancelled Colbert’s show to placate President Dipshit, I joked that the network would replace it with a new program:
“The Super Happy Love Kissy Kissy Trump Forever Hour.”
Today that doesn’t feel like a joke.
It seems like the direction of all corporate media. The Mango administration flexed its muscles: Brandon Carr, the head of the FCC, threatened ABC, and ABC buckled, pulling Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely.
Continue reading “Now Kimmel. Who’s Next? We All Are”
Characters on long-running prime-time dramas rarely grow emotionally.
From the first episode to the last, they stand as the same.
Olivia Benson is still the depressed detective apprehending perps on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Dr. Meredith Grey remains the same passionate life-saver that she was in the first season of “Grey’s Anatomy” as she is now in the 43rd season.
It’s part of the appeal of genre TV, what marks them as comfort food.
But the 100th episode of the first-responder show “9-1-1” earlier this month stunned viewers as it pulled on a string lingering for approximately five seasons, give or take, as firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark) was kissed by a man.
Continue reading “ABC’s ‘9-1-1’ Shocks Fans with the Best Possible Twist”
There’s a lot of snickering going around social media in the wake of “Bachelor” star Colton Underwood coming out.
Imagine someone actually scripting this:
A romantic reality TV series beset by claims of racism since its inception finally slots a Black male lead – and that man ends up with a woman with a racist past.
Continue reading “‘The Bachelor’ finale was more wrenching than anyone could have guessed”
This week, ABC’s “General Hospital” killed off Franco Baldwin (Roger Howarth).
The character was divisive to many viewers.
Continue reading “‘General Hospital’ ripped out our hearts and stomped them into mash”
Mark Perigard 