I hope Meryl Streep dresses better for the Oscars.She didn't try too hard at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and her lack of preparation caught up with her when she won for "Doubt." Dare we say ... frumpy? Streep needs......

Merry Christmas! Here are a few options if you're looking for Christmas-themed programming today: *"A Christmas Story" on TBS. The 24-hour marathon of this beloved 1983 movie continues through 8 p.m. *Jesus movies on TCM. "The Greatest Story Ever Told"......

Look, this has nothing to do with films that air on cable television without commercial interruption. And it's even hard for me to rant against films that air on television with commercial interruption because this is the way it's been done for many years now. I can deal with that. I have a DVR, I c...

Watching baseball online is hard, even if you want to pay for it.  Before we talk about that, though, I should tell you:  I’m a Red Sox fan.  So, while the last few years have been a pleasure (I’m looking at you 2004 and 2007), this year didn’t turn out so good.  On the other h...

“Take My Work Wife…Please” July 9th, 2008 My Boys is not a subtle show. There were some expectations that perhaps dropping the sports metaphors would assist the show in developing a shorthand that relies less on traditional sitcom constructs, but the latest string of episodes have ...

“Spit Take” July 3rd, 2008 Sorry for being a bit missing in action these past few days (And for the weekend) - I’m home for the weekend celebrating a birthday (Happy Birthday, Mom!) and associating with a new operating system on my shiny new MacBook, and as a result my television v...

Has it really been two years since Harold Reynolds was jettisoned from the ESPN Star Destroyer? It's been a long, strange trip over that span — including many skirmishes with the WWL, and a coveted Deadspin SHOTY nomination with us — but now our man is finally back on national TV. TBS brought hi...

“The Shirt Contest” June 26th, 2008 Having just jumped on the My Boys bandwagon in the past week, this is the first time I’ve been able to catch an episode on the night of its airing. It’s a pity, then, that it was an episode that was so slight, a mere distraction with a cent...

If you are one of the millions of Match Game fans who long to return to those halcyon days when life was a breezy '70s cocktail-party-cum-game show—a double-tiered ping pong match of witty innuendo deftly presided over by a comforting, avuncular presence—well, then TBS's proposed update ...

Every year at this time, I complain about the dreck the TV networks throw on during the summer. And this year, after the agony of a long WGA strike and the threat of an actors' walkout, the diet of boring repeats ad inane reality is even worse (with the possible exception of CBS' "Swingtown," which ...