Blog Profile / The A.V. Club - TV
| URL : | http://www.avclub.com/channels/tv/ | |
|---|---|---|
| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Television | |
| Posts on Regator: | 14218 | |
| Posts / Week: | 74.8 | |
| Archived Since: | October 27, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
TV: So You Think You Can Dance: “Meet The Top 20”
After auditions in five cities and a week in Vegas, So You Think You Can Dance finally hits the Hollywood studio to introduce its Top 20 contestants, and like last season, the competition starts with a jam-packed episode of spectacular choreography. Show More Summary
TV: Pretty Little Liars: “Turn Off The Shoe”
It’s safe to say at this point that Pretty Little Liars knows exactly what it is. Even if no one watching can ever quite figure out what in the hell is happening to who and why Aria’s wearing the better half of a Californian condor, the show is confident enough in its nighttime soap identity that the big picture rarely matters. Show More Summary
TV: Inventory: Meddling Kids + Sidekick + Mysteries = Series: 13 Hanna-Barbera productions that recycled the Scooby-Doo format
1. Josie And The Pussycats (1970-1971) Throughout the majority of the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera Studios had several significant successes on the small screen, capturing the imaginations of viewers with animated series revolving around funny...Show More Summary
TV: TV Club 10: How The Mary Tyler Moore Show reinvented the sitcom in just 10 episodes
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD every day, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. Show More Summary
TV: What's On Tonight?: Futurama airs the first episode of its second final season
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, June 19. All times are Eastern. TOP PICK Futurama (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.): TV shows are just ending all over the place! Last week, in this very space, Don’t Trust The B---- In Apt....Show More Summary
TV: The Voice: “Live Finale”
The Voice has passed its most important test this Spring. With Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green on the bench, Mark Burnett and company successfully slotted in Shakira and Usher during their absence, and delivered a season that lived...Show More Summary
TV: Great Job, Internet!: Russell Brand eviscerated the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe
After tackling newspaper journalism with a Margaret Thatcher op-ed for The Guardian, Russell Brand has moved on to dominating television journalism as well. A video captures Brand eviscerating the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe for essentially laughing at him to his face during an interview. Show More Summary
TV: Newswire: Sesame Street to add a Muppet whose parent is in jail
After introducing an impoverished Muppet in 2011, Sesame Street will continue to help America's preschoolers cope with society's ongoing collapse by introducing Alex, a Muppet whose dad is in jail. For the moment, Alex will not appear...Show More Summary
TV: The Office (Classic): “Basketball”/“Hot Girl”
“Basketball” (season one, episode five; originally aired 4/19/2005) In which it’s definitely about whether you win or lose—and how you play the game… It’s telling that none of Michael Scott’s talking heads about basketball mention team play. Show More Summary
TV: Six Feet Under: “You Never Know”
“You Never Know” (season three, episode two; originally aired 3/9/2003) Now that we’re into season three of Six Feet Under, we expect some misdirection in the opening deaths. So when we see a bachelor struggling to light his gas-powered...Show More Summary
TV: Newswire: Dan Harmon is sorry he had such predictably harsh words for Community's fourth season
Yesterday the question of what Dan Harmon thought of Community’s fourth season was answered in typically unfiltered, impolitic Dan Harmon fashion. No sir, he didn’t like it: He found it to be an “unflattering” impression of his style and supposed quirks. Show More Summary
TV: Great Job, Internet!: Science finally creates Periodic Table Of Muppets
In what has to be the biggest boon to science since the invention of the gorilla detector, artist Mike Boon has scientifically classified The Muppets. His Periodic Table Of Muppets works simply as pop art, with each character reduced to a basic color scheme, a two-letter abbreviation, and a set of googly eyes. Show More Summary
TV: The Shield (Classic): “Dominoes Falling”
Is season two elegantly structured or is “Dominoes Falling” just so damn good it looks like it? Not to be vulgar about things like Armadillo or Connie’s murder, but the small payoffs have been cresting pretty regularly even before this final, epic wave, and now every storyline connects in this moody, pulse-pounding climax. Show More Summary
TV: Defiance: “If I Ever Leave This World Alive”
One of the greatest benefits of speculative fiction is that it can take aspects of society which are metaphorical or difficult to tackle head-on and render them literal. (Buffy's “high school is literally hell” is probably the best example...Show More Summary
TV: Switched At Birth: “Distorted House”
When people close to you change, it rarely happens all of a sudden. It usually occurs in subtle increments, slowly shifting your relationship dynamics until you look up one day and your relationship becomes one you might not even recognize. Show More Summary
TV: Other Shows: Love, Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe is the most enduringly fetishized celebrity in movie history, her cultural cachet outlasting similarly worshipped contemporaries like James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, and even Elvis Presley. Fifty years after Monroe’s death,...Show More Summary
TV: What's On Tonight?: After a brutal round of Vegas Week cuts, So You Think You Can Dance is ready to introduce its chosen Top 20
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, June 18. All times are Eastern. TOP PICK So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8 p.m.): In last week’s episode, one of reality TV’s most unforgiving competitions reached Las Vegas and promptly winnowed the field down from 159 to just 33 dancing hopefuls. Show More Summary
TV: Expert Witness: How to score a TV show, according to Arrested Development’s David Schwartz
In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music-festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. Show More Summary
TV: For Our Consideration: Will country music be the savior of The Voice?
If you ever wonder what happens to the former contestants from The Voice after all the hoopla and shouts of “You’re gonna be a star!” die down, all you have to do is watch them return to perform on the show in subsequent seasons. The...Show More Summary
TV: Teen Wolf: “Ice Pick”
Since the beginning of this series, JR Bourne has been doing solid, estimable work in a pretty thankless role. Chris Argent is supposed to be the paterfamilias of a clan of werewolf hunters, whose animosity toward werewolves provides...Show More Summary