Yesterday it was revealed that Tom Shales and James A. Miller, co-authors of the fascinating Live From New York! uncensored history of SNL are currently working on one about ESPN. Brace yourselves. The details about the book are sketchy at this point but according to Miller, they're still in the pro...

Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales trashed President Bush’s farewell address in the Thursday newspaper. Shales was so harsh in his review – headlined "A President’s Parting Words – Convincing, at Least to Himself" – that he thought it was "delusion and denial" that Bu...

CNN is airing a special called "Scream Bloody Murder" on Thursday night, and Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales previewed it Thursday morning as powerful, even as he suggested the show's host, foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour, is too blatantly patting herself on the back: CNN i...

 Washington Post Style TV columnist Tom Shales blames the FCC because tonight's premiere of CBS's "Swingtown" doesn't show enough skin to suit him. "Swingtown," a drama set in the free-loving, drug-hazed summer of 1976, lacks the "kind of intimacy and even eroticism that is...

In a Sunday review of the HBO film "Recount," Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales raves over the film, and over how much greater America would have been with President Gore: If the mess in Florida had been resolved with as much skill and savvy as went into the making of the movie, the wor...

Reporting that “ABC News is getting hammered by the mainstream and liberal media,� as if they aren't the same, FNC's Brit Hume led his Thursday “Grapevine� segment with examples of the left-wing outrage over Barack Obama being pressed at Wednesday's debate on subjects the media consider off ...

The Democratic debate in Philadelphia last night was dominated by a wall of stupid painstakingly constructed by ABC’s moderators, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Their obsession with trivia and avoidance of substance submerged this affair from its opening introduction. It’s har...

Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during Wednesday's Democrat presidential debate on ABC. Yet, the Washington Post's television critic Tom Shales wasn't happy about this, and actually felt the event represented "anot...

I write this before seeing the miniseries "John Adams," previewed by Tom Shales [" 'John Adams,' Second to None; HBO Can Claim Victory With Bold Miniseries," Style, March 15], but that is fair since Shales wrote the review without appearing to know much about Adams....

In Monday's Washington Post, it became clear which Super Bowl ad the liberal Posties dislike the most: one from the athletic apparel (and now shoe) makers at Under Armour. They probably shudder at the brand name. The Post sports section ran snippets of its columnist (and radio and TV personality) T...