Perspectives from a Professor
Brothers (FOX 8:00 p.m. Fridays) – love CCH Pounder and Carl Weathers, but everyone is trying way too hard to make this show any fun to watch. The Cleveland Show (FOX 8:30 p.m. Sundays) – we lose King Of The Hill to make room for this? Not a good trade. Community (NBC 9:30 p.m. Thursdays) …
The Greensboro audience surrounding me at the 7:35 screening last night was enthusiastic, but that’s likely because viewers knew what they were going to get with Michael Moore’s new documentary Capitalism: A Love Story and bought tickets based on those expectations. By now, Moore’s shtick is familiar and – while I think he usually …
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Obviously, someone thought a television adaptation of The Witches of Eastwick was a good idea…twice. This is the second time a pilot for the series has aired, and this time more than the pilot has landed on the schedule (Eastwick ABC 10 p.m. Wednesdays). Bottom line: it feels like a 1980s era show without any …
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I thought the fifth episode of Glee was the weakest of the lot – not enough emotional highs and lows with quirkiness pulling everything together – but I’m not giving up on this series! On the other hand, Modern Family (ABC 9 p.m. Wednesdays) went from promising pilot to polished second episode. The series is …
How about some short takes on several of the new fall television series? Accidentally On Purpose (CBS 8:30 p.m. Mondays) is a cross between Cougar Town (more on that series in a later post) and Knocked Up (a film about Peter Pan men and the women who nag them) with more likeable characters and less …
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