You know how we keep saying that the only industries safe from this tanking economy are booze and porn? And you know how that keeps proving to not be true? Here it is again:  Eddie Doyle, who has bartended at the inspiration for "Cheers" since 1974, has been fired. The reason given by...

Yes, I’m Still Watching…Damages February 25th, 2009 Oh, Damages. When the show debuted in 2007, there was something very fresh about its structure, something that I couldn’t really put my finger on at the time. It was a show that brought to the table some great acting talent, in pa...

“I Lied, Too” January 7th, 2009 Damages is one of the few shows that, despite airing during the period when I began this blog, I have never honestly blogged about the show. The reason is simple: I wasn’t really doing episodic reviews back when the show first emerged, and it took me...

Damages came back last night to FX, and so far it's just about as powerful, brooding and complex as the first season, which is to say, top notch television. The essence of Damages is that you never know, completely, who is telling the truth, and that pertains, especially, to Patty Hewes, and her sec...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S02E01) "Actually, I take that back. You should be scared. You should be terrified." - Ellen Payback's a bitch, ain't it? Not if you're Ellen Parsons - then it's a slow, methodical, patience-testing process where it apparently take...

Hundreds came out  Orange County’s Laguna Beach for The Sea Change Summer Party to raise money for environmental group Oceana, and to honor Harrison Ford’s consistent work for the environment. Ford sits on many boards for different environmental groups, he’s donated acreage in W...

The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations are in and we’ve got the entire list for you below. Once again, I’ll proclaim my disappointment that Battlestar Galactica never makes it to Drama Series, but whatever. It’s nice to see Damages , Lost and Dexter in there. I just recen...

Emmy nomination morning is kind of like Christmas morning - you’re all excited about it as it approaches, wary of the potential surprises and the like, etc. But, unlike Christmas that ends in the complete elimination of suspense, the Emmy Awards are the start of a whole new game. In this case,...

When I started my Emmys coverage for this year’s ceremony a while ago, I (as always) had a lot of plans: previews of every category (Got through a lot), reviews of every submitted episode (Almost got through those), and all sorts of other grand schemes that never come to fruition. This is the ...

Filed under: Celebrities, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free The Emmy Award nominations will be announced a week from this Thursday, and The Hollywood Reporter got a bunch of TV stars (both Emmy winners and nominees) together at a roundtable* to discuss the awards, and it's pretty lively. While Ted Danson ...