Thursday, June 23 2011
Alexander Skarsgard gets some added bite from ‘True Blood’
LOS ANGELES — Playing an aloof, sexy Viking vampire sheriff on HBO’s “True Blood” requires many things of Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard, not least among…
Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner does television
PHILADELPHIA — Best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner is going Hollywood. And not the way she did when her second book, “In Her Shoes,” was made into…
Wednesday, June 22 2011
With all these new lawyer shows, TV has gone to the dogs
Television, drifting in the deadly horse latitudes the past few weeks, has finally caught a breeze. Just as the summer’s entertainment was beginning to feel…
Tuesday, June 21 2011
Olbermann comes out swinging on Current’s new ‘Countdown’
LOS ANGELES — There’s really no reason to describe the new “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” that debuted Monday night on Current TV when, not surprisingly,…
Monday, June 20 2011
J.J. Abrams is stuck in a huge shadow
There’s a lot to admire in J.J. Abrams’ new film, “Super 8,” starting with the spirited relationship between Joe (Joel Courtney) and Charles (Riley Griffiths),…
Friday, June 10 2011
Cable, broadcast networks set to unleash more than 80 summer shows
When the broadcast networks slammed the brakes on the 2010-11 TV season last week, cable networks were already revving their engines for a fast start…
Wednesday, June 8 2011
TV made for the dog days of summer
It’s June now, which means no more of Scotty McCreery’s boyish smirks on “American Idol” or Kirstie Alley dropping dress sizes on the “Dancing With…
Egypt’s self-styled version of Jon Stewart finds humor in the revolution
CAIRO — Bassem Youssef is barefoot, pacing around the dining room of his apartment in the tony Maadi neighborhood where he has assembled a crack…
Monday, June 6 2011
TV serves up some sizzling, and fizzling, summertime fare
Summer TV’s not the old song and dance anymore. It’s the new song and dance, with NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and Fox’s “So You Think…
TV series puts ‘Unsung’ black music stars back in the spotlight
WASHINGTON — They are performers who made it big but crashed and burned from the lethal mix of sex, drugs and living large. Or they’re…