OK, no clouds or grumbling today. Just fun. First, some fun announcements. The BCCB has given WINTERGIRLS its 5th starred review!! Thank you, BCCB! The audio version of WINTERGIRLS has won an Audiofiles Earphones Award. (I wonder if it comes with a statue of giant earphones...) I had a very nice not...

I'm a week behind on The Closer, but I finally watched "Power of Attorney" and holy crap, love this show! I figured out that it was the lawyer pretty early on, given the clues about the assailant's description and the fact that he walked into the PHD room with all of their eviden...

The Round Mound Of BJ Hound will return to his rightful place in the TNT analyst chair after NBA All-Star weekend. [SI]...

Many 20-something women fell in love with Bill Murray in "Broken Flowers" or "Lost in Translation." But for us, it was "Groundhog Day." We couldn't get enough of Murray's grumbly, impatient, somewhat creepy newscaster. Needless to say, we're pretty disappoin...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten Have you seen TNT's new show, Leverage yet? It's been called a new age A-Team, but I see it more as a lighthearted combination of Ocean's 11, Alias, Burn Notice and even How I Met Your Mother. In fact, I'm willing to go out on a limb a...

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......

Filed under: TNT-HD Anyone watching Tuesday's episode of Leverage (The Wedding Job) probably quickly noticed that instead of the crisp 720p image we've become accustomed to, it was being delivered in TNT's disorienting stretch format, taking a 4x3 picture and adjusting whatever it thought we weren't...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free, The Mentalist More TCA news: an actor from Lie to Me calls The Mentalist "a scam." Reporters asked the panel from the new FOX drama about the possible similarities between the two shows (which a lot of people have b...

TNT has conveniently dropped the news that Charles Barkley will be taking some time off from its NBA broadcasts while he deals with all his "legal and personal issues" stemming from the DUI/blow job mess. Via Awful Announcing via USA Today: "I have spoken with Charles Barkley regarding the incident....

That might be the one point we're all missing in this drunken, blow-jobby mess. The transition from Charles Barkley to the bane of a sports writer's existence (in his early playing days) to the quote-starved writer's best friend dramatically altered the perception of a man who's personal problems co...