Howard Kurtz referred to his own work as "sloppy and inexcusable," and acknowledged that as a media critic, he should be held to a higher standard. So was his on-air mea culpa an act of refreshing tra…
PBS has demonstrated it can compete in the rough-and-tumble of primetime with the breakthrough success of "Downton Abbey." Yet that only makes it easier to forget how against the grain public…
Sweeps periods aren't what they used to be, back in the old days when networks loaded up May with big miniseries, and stations resorted to the trashiest of come-ons seeking to entice viewers to…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently donned his Carnac the Magnificent hat, predicting apps will gradually replace networks, and traditional TV channels "that fail to develop first-class apps will lose…
Truth be told, nobody was really interested before Monday in whether ESPN basketball analyst Chris Broussard thinks homosexuality is a sin.
CNN and ESPN worked hard to get their mileage out of live coverage of the Correspondents Dinner, even though the night failed to break its dated construct.
An unhealthy side effect of covering TV too long is beginning to think like executives and producers. So as reports began dribbling out about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, it was hard n…
If you happened to read the New York Times magazine excerpt…
The Greatest Show on Earth has a beef with the HBO documentary "An Apology to Elephants," accusing the producers of setting out to do a "one-sided" hit piece. In my review I wondered why there was no…
As it happens, Discovery Channel will air a documentary Sunday titled "All the President's Men Revisited," focusing on an event still etched in our collective memory as representing the apex of…
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