Ever since Piers Morgan came onto the scene, I have been at a loss. His approach, his choice of questions, his rapport with guests... for a while, I thought I just didn't get it -- that perhaps I alone was missing something.
But over the holiday weekend, watching Mr. Morgan...
MaryAnn Sleasman | Posted May 29, 2012
It was off to Tampa, Florida for Monday's America's Got Talent auditions and The Big Guava's talent pool was very much a mix of acts both hot and cold, with a definite leaning toward cold.
The Montage of Horror featured players included a rapper with a Cabbage...
Bob Sellers | Posted May 29, 2012
Jerry Seinfeld has a joke about how men watch TV, remotes at the ready: "Men don't care what's on TV. Men only care what ELSE is on TV."
That observation rings in my head as I recount spending a week keeping a diary as a "Nielsen Family" during May sweeps....
Leslie Reece Schichtel | Posted May 29, 2012
This season of The Bachelorette is more alluring than recent seasons -- all of which now blur together as replays of the same types of dates, personalities and dramas.
Is it because the Bachelorette Emily Maynard has a child? No, former Bachelor Jason Mesnick also came as a package...
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted May 29, 2012
Jaguar. Joan. Megan. Peggy. Women. Sex. Power. Framed by the Jaguar pitch, "The Other Woman" is a beautifully brutal depiction of prostitution -- cracking open a theme deeply embedded in the series, but never truly explored. Don's mother was a prostitute, all the men sleep with prostitutes. Our beloved Sal...
Dan Rather | Posted May 29, 2012
For so many of us, this past holiday weekend was about BBQs, pool parties and celebrating the beginning of summer. The fact that it was Memorial Day seemed, once again, to be an afterthought. Yet we remain at war, a fact that has fallen dangerously out of our national consciousness....
Ilene Kleinbaum | Posted May 29, 2012
On this week's episode of The Bachelorette, we're just jumping right in -- Chris was presented with the first one-on-one date card, and Emily wants him to work for his meal. The two of them are strapped into harnesses ("Emily looks great in a harness," says Christian Grey Chris)...
Joe Satran | Posted May 29, 2012
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 9 of HBO's "Game of Thrones," entitled "Blackwater."
"The gods have no mercy. That's why they're gods." -- Cersei Lannister
Question: How do you cross a sea of burning green flames?
Answer: You don't. You burn, and...
Emma Gray | Posted May 29, 2012
This week's "Bachelorette" included a surprise visit from Dolly Parton, some excellent reminders that we're still in Charlotte, North Carolina, and proved once and for all that reality television involving children is a lot less fun to guilty-pleasure watch. All that being said, episode three proved to be the least...
Michelangelo Signorile | Posted May 29, 2012
For several years there were rumors about the sexual orientation of Anne Burrell, the popular spiky-haired star of Food Network's Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, but she'd not publicly acknowledged she is a lesbian. Then fellow Food Network star Ted Allen went on the "Derek and Romaine Show"...
Lincee Ray | Posted May 29, 2012
I have to give it to Emily for being straightforward and honest with "her boys" on "The Bachelorette." Each one-on-one time is filled with, shall I say, normal conversation with her intentions clearly laid out on the table. If the bachelors don't prove that they can fit into her life...
Anna Brand | Posted May 29, 2012
The time has come, my friends. We're saying goodbye to Season 3 of "Bethenny Ever After" and the farewells are bound to be bittersweet.
We know she's not leaving the spotlight forever (like she ever could, really) -- in fact, our Queen has already left her brand-spankin' new apartment...
Maureen Ryan | Posted May 29, 2012
Do not read on unless you've seen Season 5, Episode 11 of AMC's "Mad Men," "The Other Woman."
"This thing, gentlemen. What price would we pay? What behavior would we forgive?" - Don in the Jaguar pitch
"There is no number." - Peggy to...
Maureen Ryan | Posted May 28, 2012
Don't read on unless you've seen "Blackwater," Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones."
The Battle of the Blackwater!
I could give you my theories on why certain moments in Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" exemplified what the show is about....
Crystal Bell | Posted May 28, 2012
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 7 of HBO's "Girls," entitled, "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident."
Excuse me if what I'm about to say sounds vaguely familiar, but oh, shit, fuck, are we supposed to like Adam now?
You...
Christina Cauterucci | Posted May 28, 2012
Ask any queer girl: When it comes to gaydar, haircuts count.
Surely not every pixie-haired chick out there is hiding steamy Sapphic fantasies inside her carefully pomaded head, and I've met plenty of lesbians with hair that looks straight in more ways than just texture, but any lady with...
Cesar Millan | Posted May 25, 2012
This Monday is Memorial Day, when many of us will spend a nice long weekend with our families hanging out at the beach, having a picnic in the park, or grilling in the backyard. School's almost out and summer's almost here. Sometimes in all the fun, it's easy to forget...
Maureen Ryan | Posted May 25, 2012
Here's what you should do on Memorial Day weekend: Weather permitting, go outside. Party. Have fun with your friends and family.
But if you are stuck inside and in desperate need of "entertainment" that will make you laugh until you throw up, there's "Hemingway...
G.L.O.C. | Posted May 25, 2012
For the past three years the lovely folks over at Deadline Hollywood have crunched some numbers and given us an overview of how women writers fared during pilot season. Since 2010 there has been a 12 percent jump in the number of pilots written by women that are picked up....
Abe Schwartz | Posted May 25, 2012
One of my favorite shows is Parks and Recreation. I recently had the chance to sit down, drink iced tea and talk with staff writer, Aisha Muharrar. Aisha penned several of my favorite episodes, including "Born and Raised" and "Operation Ann" this season. Here are ten things that you should...
Jennifer Hamady | Posted May 29, 2012