In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Homeland Security USA . NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, then a new Law and Order: SVU . FOX has a new, two-hour American Idol at 8. There's a new Reaper on The CW at 8. At 9, Sci-Fi has a new E...

Lesbian reporter Karen Ocamb has an interesting piece up at Bilerico.com called "Tavis Smiley's Big Day Without Gays" where she asks where were the Black LGBT people at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union conference held at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week? So this year's SOTBU promot...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a n...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty . CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour . NBC has the special Secrets of the Furious Five at 8, followed by a new Kath & Kim . FOX has a new American Idol a...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, NBC has a new Biggest Loser , followed by a new Life . FOX has a new, two-hour American Idol at 8. At 9, ABC has a new Lost , then a new Life on Mars . CBS has a new Criminal Minds at 9, followed ...

Slade Smiley, who featured in the first 3 seasons of the Bravo reality TV series The Real Housewives of Orange County, was recently arrested for failing to pay his child support. Now, I realize that a great many of you prolly don’t even know who this reality TV nobody is but I’ve been in...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Homeland Security, USA . CBS has a new NCIS at 8. NBC has a new Biggest Loser at 8. PBS has a new Nova at 8. At 9, the networks and the news channels have coverage of the Presidentia...

Len Deighton turned 80 last week, I just discovered from the Guardian. He was born on February 18, 1929, according to Wikipedia.(Telegraph photo.) Honestly I didn’t even know he was still around, for I haven’t seen any new book by him for a long time. His last thriller was Charity, published in ...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, followed by new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name ...