An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.
Two shows I forgot about in yesterday’s reviews:
Continue reading “Numb3rs and The West Wing: Last two for a while. I think”
More reviews of US shows, including a few I left out because I forgot about them.
Continue reading “More tales from the US: CSI, CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, Battlestar Galactica”
The September season has started in America, so a few quick reviews of the new and the returning:
What’s the theme tune to House? A simple question, you might think, but it has two answers. In the US and Canada, it’s Teardrop
Why? I imagine licensing issues are the heart of the problem, but did Massive Attack refuse to license their music outside North America or did they simply ask for too much?
I’ll try to find out…
Not sure I totally agree with this analysis of the slight debate between Jon Stewart and Christopher Hitchens over on The Daily Show about the war in Iraq. Big fan that I am of Christopher Hitchens, I must point out that Hitchens didn’t really get a chance to defend himself. He was, after all, being asked to debate the war in the Iraq in the short time he had been allotted to promote a book on Thomas Jefferson.
Stewart did, however, show that he is at least the smartest interviewer on American TV outside of PBS, however. And Hitchens did at least provide nuance that doesn’t appear to show itself in his arguments over in Fighting Talk.
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