Not quite ready for bed last night, and uninspired by other syndicated options, I flipped over to The Late Show with David Letterman (11:30pm CBS). It was a commercial. I saw via the guide that John McCain was the guest. I wasn’t particularly in the mood for more politics, especially before bed [...]
“WTF?”, I hear you saying. Who is this, and why has he hijacked “I ♥ Television?”
A brief introduction:
I ain’t no blog terrorist: just a man with an abiding passion for red, green and blue pixels transmitted via cathode ray (or high-tech equivalent) directly into my visual cortex . You can call me “Gene.”
And, without further [...]
There is no doubt that Tina Fey inspired a “lady-writer” look. Survey the population of television fans and writers with two X chromosomes and chances are high that you will find many pairs of sassy glasses among them.* While popular opinion of girls who wear glasses has changed over time, Tina Fey gave a bespectacled [...]
In her discussion of the new season’s sitcom fare, Alessandra Stanley of the NY Times makes some interesting points about the role taboo plays in sitcom humor. One question she raises is, how can writers best subvert social norms for the sake of a joke when social norms have shifted so dramatically over time and [...]
The fourth season of The New Adventures of Old Christine premieres on its new night and time next Wednesday (September 24, CBS 8:00 PM EST). Previously part of the well-branded CBS Monday night comedy block (a nicely established piece of television real estate that features the inexplicable ratings machine Two and a Half Men), [...]
Because the new season is just getting its legs, the Emmy’s are around the corner and we’re making some progress on our own spec scripts. Yes, we are television nerds. We ♥ television, writing about television, writing television, writing about writing television and every other permutation therein. We’ll be documenting our relationship [...]