Posted on: Friday, 13 June 2008, 12:00 CDTBy Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-DispatchJun. 13–As television programmers try to figure out how to drag young viewers away from their computers and put them back in front of the TV where they belong, Nickelodeon’s "iCarly" flourishes.A television series built around an Internet show, "iCarly," which debuted in […]
Big Brown’s victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes were NBC productions, but if you turn to that network late Saturday afternoon, you’ll see gymnastics.ABC, in the third year of a contract with the New York Racing Association, will carry the Belmont Stakes. Post time is 6:25 p.m. The telecast begins at 5:30 p.m., […]
A lot became suddenly clearer when I saw that Florence Nightingale, Norman Stone’s drama-documentary about the lady with the lamp, was a Faith & Values Media production. This is a company on a mission, rather literally. It actually states on its website that its mission is "to use the electronic media to enrich spiritual life […]
By Kevin D. ThompsonPalm Beach Post Television WriterRita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas (today, 8 p.m., WXEL-Channel 42): Public television's first stand-up special stars the veteran comic with the razor-sharp wit and deadpan delivery.Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search For Elle Woods (today, 10 p.m., MTV): Haylie Duff stars in this new eight-episode reality series […]
What!?!?! They’ve really dropped the ball here. Some kind of special features - ANY kind of special features - that pertained to the movie, please??? I’m slightly disturbed that the film is almost 20 years old. It was the first film I kept returning to over and over at the cinema […]
Have your say: should straight men be allowed to choose furniture?The TV presenter and comedienne Ruby Wax advises readers as Weekend’s agony auntWhat is it about men and aubergine? My last boyfriend was colour blind, so I can forgive him, but my current partner has no excuse.He came back with a sofa bed from John […]
My emails are generally clogged with shit about erections and elections and constant updates on what amazing thing Ashlee Simpson just said on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show. So I was thrilled to finally get something urgent and important–to me, anyway! It said there’s a book coming out in May by New York Post TV writer […]
Tiger Woods: Everyone’s overwhelming favorite is going for green jacket No. 5. The cycle is right, too: He tied for third in 2006 and second in 2007.Phil Mickelson: Lefty has a lock on Masters won in even-numbered years (2004, ‘06), so maybe this is his turn.Retief Goosen: Like Woods, he has finished third and second […]
When a bar leaves me uninspired, I turn to that bastion of critical citizen journalism, Yelp.com. I plug in the establishment and pore over countless thoughtful reviews, looking for someone who can say it better than I can.In this case, it is Cyrus A. of Lafayette.Of Ben ‘n Nick’s in Rockridge, he writes on Feb. […]
Hillary Clinton has finally admitted that she "misspoke" when claiming that she came "under sniper fire" in Bosnia during a March 1996 visit to U.S. troops enforcing the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. At first, the Clinton campaign maintained that the "misstatement" was limited to one occasion on March 17 when she talked about running across […]