Category: Featured
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Globes Go Glee (Again) — A Reaction to the Golden Globes
When I wrote my predictions for the television categories last week, I prefaced them by saying that I didn’t really know anything. I don’t follow the Globes as intensely as I follow the Emmys or even the Oscars, but I’ve taken a more detailed interest in award shows over the past few years anyway, so…
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Human Target, “Imbroglio” and “Cool Hand Guerrero”
Due to President Obama’s presence at the Tuscon memorial, FOX postponed Human Target last Wednesday, only they forgot to tell anyone until around 9 p.m. eastern time. They clearly care a lot about this series. Eventually, these two episodes were scheduled for Friday (more confidence!). And due to my desire to not spend two hours…
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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards: Series Categories
I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when in reference to television. I originally wanted to write a post discussing whether or not it was worthwhile to even predict the outcome of the Golden Globe…
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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards, Lead Categories
I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when in reference to television. I originally wanted to write a post discussing whether or not it was worthwhile to even predict the outcome of the Golden Globe…
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Series Premiere — Lights Out, “Pilot”
In television, we’re always looking for innovation. So many of the new programs that make it to the airwaves are watered down, remade, reimagined or fairly generalized versions of things we have already seen. When something mostly original comes around, we tend to make a big deal of out of it (see: Lost, The Sopranos, Survivor). An…
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Aimless Prognosticating: Predicting the Television Golden Globe Awards, Supporting Categories
Just a note: I’m going to be busy this weekend, so I wanted to go ahead these taken care of here in the middle of the week. I feel like I probably know the answer to the primary question of this post. We all know that the Golden Globe Awards are a crock, especially when…
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Series Premiere — Episodes, “Episode One”
With television patience is a big point of emphasis. Stories have a beginning, middle and end and if the start to the story isn’t exciting, influential or in some cases good, it is difficult to determine the value in sticking with it. For long-running serials, especially on cable, the party line is always to hang…
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Series Premiere — The Cape, “Pilot” and “Tarot”
The Cape is not a good television series. In fact, it’s probably one of the worst new series of this current season. The acting is poor, the dialogue is shockingly worse and well, if you’ve seen the promos you know how bad the effects are (in case you haven’t: they’re terrible). These first two episodes…
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Cougar Town, “No Reason To Cry”
I know I said yesterday in my Southland review that I wasn’t really looking forward for television to return this soon in 2011, but I have to admit if there was one series that I absolutely missed over the holidays, it was Cougar Town. These people are just wonderful and I want to have as…
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Season Premiere — Southland, “Let It Snow”
Hey everyone! It’s 2011 and I’m back! Honestly, I’m not really ready for television to be back this early in the year, I would have preferred to enjoy my break. But such is life. Anyway, let’s kick-start the new year with a review of one of my favorite series that I haven’t really ever discussed.…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The Best (and Worst) of the Rest
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The 25 Best Series, 10-1
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The 25 Best Series, 25-11
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Top 60 Episodes, 10-1
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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