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90210 Premiere: A Second Opinion
Okay - it’s been 12+ hours now since 90210, and I think I’ve had a proper amount of time to digest that premiere. And while my impressions of the show haven’t changed since last night night, it’s taken me a while to quickly summarize why I was left disappointed:
90210 wants to be what Gossip Girl already is.
After reading a list of reviews today - including the one written by my TV Envy colleague - I felt there was still room to offer an opposing opinion.
In general, most of the critics agreed that the show was much better than feared. I mean - should we have expected more from a show that didn’t offer any previews? No. But should we have expected more from a network that already offers quality catty fare? Yes.
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What’s Wrong With Young Hollywood?
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Movies, Music, Child Stars, Editorials,
Miley Cyrus is showing off too much skin in pictures and making viral YouTube videos. Disney darling Vanessa Hudgens weathered scandal for sending pics to another young star. Lindsay Lohan fell so far from grace so fast we still can’t find her career, and let’s not even start talking about the deterioration of Britney Spears.
What’s wrong with young Hollywood?
Many of them appear on the scene as cute kids, all smiles and freckles and age-appropriate movie roles. But as the years pass and adolescence sets in, they’re suddenly seen in clubs, car crashes and mug shots - even before they can legally vote in some cases. When kids who aren’t famous get into trouble, it’s easy to say it’s the fault of the parents or that society puts too much pressure on them - maybe it’s some flaw in the educational system. When kids who are in the spotlight get into trouble, it’s media fodder.
And it’s almost guaranteed to make the spotlight shine on them just a little bit brighter.
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Which Caped Crusader Outshines All?
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Adventure, Sequels, Casting, New Releases,
Batman is back and he’s just as heroic as ever, but Christian Bale isn’t exactly walking where no other actor has ever trod before. The new Batman movie may make it to the top of the box office, but will the new Batman make it to the top of this list?
That’s right, it’s time to put an end to that age-old question: who was the worst Batman, Clooney or Kilmer? Let’s rate the Batmans from worst to best, and find out which man shines as the greatest Bat-like hero of them all.
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More Reasons Why Regis Philbin Should Retire
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Daytime, Talk Shows, ABC, Syndication, Editorial, Video,
A few months ago, I listed 8 reasons why I thought Regis Philbin should start making his retirement plans. Now I would like to add a #9 and #10.
#9. Back in May, the talk show host was talking about the recent American Idol finale when he said, “What happened to the past winners? Where are they today?” When told by co-host Kelly Ripa that they come on their show “all the time,” Regis responded, “Really? I haven’t noticed.”
#10. Philbin, who actually went to the premiere of The Dark Knight yesterday evening, sadly referenced Heath Ledger as ‘Keith Ledger’. (You can see that clip from today’s show below.)
Big Brother 10: Grandpa Got Game
Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Editorial, News,
Maybe there is hope for presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain yet? Right now the hottest guy on Big Brother 10 right now is a muscle-shirt wearin’, gravelly voice talkin’ ex-Marine who just happens to be a 75-year-old great-grandfather.
The new season of CBS’ perennial fish-bowl reality show is proving that old doesn’t mean obsolete. In the premiere episode of Big Brother 10 Jerry, the oldest person to every compete on the show, not only became Head of Household but also copped a feel of one of the hottest girls in this season’s cast. (Before his wife of 54 years has a heart attack that girl, April, sort of forced Jerry to do it.) Still, it was a good strategic move for the Magnolia,Texas retiree. In that instant you could see his fellow house guests quickly shift their concept of Jerry from Depends and defibrillators to babes and booze.
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Jason Bateman Says Juno Not to Blame for Teen Pregnancies
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Fox Searchlight, Drama, Comedy,
It was inevitable. Once word got out about the 17 pregnant teens at Gloucester High School, we knew the blame would start flying. We also knew the entertainment industry would eventually be named one of the responsible parties.
Somewhere out there, there are people who seriously believe that Jamie Lynn Spears has glamorized teenage pregnancies. These same people are probably not taking these two very important factors into consideration:
- I’m sure Jamie-Lynn didn’t want to be a 17-year-old mother.
- The Zoey 101 star can probably afford to raise a child, unlike a lot of teenage mothers out there. Therefore, giving her baby up for adoption might not have been a necessary option.
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Lovin It/Hatin It: The Nip/Tuck Season Finale
Let me start off by saying that plausibility has never been Nip/Tuck‘s strong suit. If it was, the series wouldn’t be so deliciously bad. But after watching last night’s episode, I seriously had to say: “C’mon!”
I really loved the show’s move to Los Angeles and talked about the reinvigorated program a few months ago. Unfortunately, Tuesday’s closer was way too over the top for me….and now I’m afraid I have to admit I hated it.
Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have taken us through a lot of strange storylines, so when things got ugly with pseudo-agent Colleen Rose this season, I grimaced but went along with it. (As disgusting as the murder of the real agent was, I had to admit that ‘stuffing’ him was at least creative.) Really, things weren’t that much different this year than when The Carver was still around.
But seriously….how could one family have so many problems? And at the same time?
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Follow Up: Verizon makes good on our FiOS privacy woes
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Broadband, Editorial, Features, Internet,
A little under two weeks ago, we made a long-standing issue that we had with Verizon public. The fact that they had ignored our request to fix a huge oversight that resulted in our private FiOS account info to fall into the wrong hands for over 8 months was starting to upset us just a tad. We knew that if we shared it with you, our readers, that Verizon would have no choice but to respond quickly. At least, that was the hope.
Well, sure enough, after the story was picked up on The Consumerist as well as made it to the front page of Digg, we received a phone call. Then an email. Then another phone call. Then a couple more emails. Verizon Damage Control had stepped in.
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Our Verizon FiOS customer service nightmare: Why won’t they protect my private customer information?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Broadband, Editorial, Features, Internet,
Seeing as we’ve been experiencing a ton of customer service issues with our Verizon FiOS service for the past 8 months, we figured it was time to put out a warning to you guys. After all, we typically hear that the FiOS Internet service is remarkably amazing, and people have been dumping cable in droves when FiOS becomes available in their area. Hey, there is good reason to. Where we are at, right outside Seattle, our choices are slow DSL, Comcast at 8.0 down and 768k up, or FiOS with a max speed of 30.0 down and 15.0 up (which is the plan we are on.)
Now let’s be clear here, we love the FiOS service. It works fantastically, it has never gone down in the 8 months we’ve been using it, and it’s, well, fast.
So what is the problem? To put it bluntly, Verizon has shown that they don’t care - at all - about protecting their users private, confidential information. Now, why would we make a statement like that? Check it.
The TV Viewers’ Bill of Rights
Posted by David L. Williams Categories: Drama, Reality, Editorial, Features,
Lots of people watch television. That may seem like an obvious statement (especially to somebody reading a site called TV Envy), but I think we viewers tend to forget how strong of a lobby we are. “Cane,” for example, had a little more than 11 million viewers for its first episode, a number that most newspapers called good but not great. But if a movie had 11 million people go see it in one night, it would have grossed somewhere around $90 million dollars.
That’s $90 million dollars in one day. That’s a big fat, Spiderman-Harry Potter-Transformin’ hit.
And yes, I know, movies aren’t TV. TV is free (mostly), and you don’t have to leave your home to watch TV, but it’s still a pretty frickin’ big audience. And that was just for one show, while there were two other broadcast networks (and hundreds of cable channels) competing against it. And “Cane,” by the way, wasn’t even the most watched show in that time slow. That was “Law & Order: SVU” (and more about that in a little bit.)
So … you would think that with such a big audience, such a mighty and powerful audience, the people who are making television would do what they can to not make us angry. And they do, to some extent. But they think “not making us angry” is the same as “not putting anything slightly controversial” on television, forgetting that all of us watched shows like “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Nip/Tuck,” and even “Seinfeld, which I’ll remind you had episodes that got humor out of killing George’s fiancée and a contest to see who could refrain the longest from self-pleasure.
Ignoring that, though, what they’ve done to make me and a lot of the television-watching population angry is treating us like we are stupid. Here’s the thing, television networks: we’re really smart. I know, I know, some of us still watch “Two and a Half Men” and “According to Jim,” but even more of us don’t. We follow the intricate plots of “Lost,” we laugh at the cringe-inducing humor of “The Office,” we delight in the brilliant references, call-backs and jokes of 30 Rock, we even find a way to separate the good reality shows (The Amazing Race & Survivor) from the horrible ones (Pirate Master & The Bachelor).
In short, we’re smart. We’re very smart and we’d like to be treated properly. So I propose a TV Viewers’ Bill of Rights. Bills of rights, be they for airline passengers, internet users, or consumers, are very popular these days. (Ironically, the actual, original Bill of Rights? Not so popular right now. Or enforced, really.) Here goes…
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