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Article first published as When Good Shows Go Bad on Blogcritics. NBC's The Office was once one of the most praised, funniest sitcoms on network television. Community, on the same channel, was a brilliant, creative, original show that broke all the traditional bounds of what sitcoms were capable of. FOX's House was an intelligent character study wrapped in a medical procedural. What do these al...

Article first published as Will Amazon Change Television? on Blogcritics. It wasn't that long ago I was pondering in this column, "will Netflix change television?" Now, with the streaming release of 14 comedy and children's' pilots by Amazon this week (the dramas will be forthcoming), even more changes are afoot in the television landscape. Streaming video is nothing new. YouTube has be...

Article first published as When Series Break Genre on Blogcritics. Glee shocked many this week, when, in the middle of another goofy choir room scene, shots broke out in the halls of McKinley. For a full 10-minute act, students cowered and cried, terrified for their lives, not sure if they would soon be dead. They made videos to say goodbye to their loved ones, and a teacher even risked his l...

Article first published as Lack of Imports on Blogcritics. The United States severely lacks the importation of television programs from other countries. We only like our own fare. Why? It's extremely common for us to remake shows in the American style. Ugly Betty and Homeland are two examples of successful series from lands far away we've remade in our own studios with our own actors. But how ...

Article first published as Redefining Cancellation on Blogcritics. This week, Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell posted a call on Kickstarter soliciting donations to produce a Veronica Mars film. Within, 12 hours, they'd raised the minimum $2,000,000 needed for the project, breaking all fundraising records for the site. As I'm writing this article, the total now stands at $3,572,678, ...

Article first published as Horror on Television on Blogcritics. This week's topic is about a television genre that has only recently entered the landscape in a notable way: Horror. Yes, one can argue there have horror series before, and there have been. Tales from the Crypt, Stephen King adaptations, and even some episodes of The X-Files spring to mind. There's also been the comedy attempts, l...

Article first published as There's Nothing on TV on Blogcritics. It has become quite commonplace in the past decade or two for people to complain that there is nothing on TV. I hear it from my parents frequently. Hundreds of channels and not a single thing worth watching. It's a pet peeve of mine to hear this, and it makes the speaker sound ignorant. To those people, I say "nonsense!" The...

Article first published as High Definition Versus Standard TV on Blogcritics. It's 2013. Analog television is a thing of the past, and we have all switched over to digital. For years, analog signals could vary in strength based on your location and antenna, but after cable standardized that, all channels mostly looked the same. As high definition (HD) becomes more persistent and prevalent, th...

Article first published as Will Netflix Change Television? on Blogcritics. Netflix has long been thought of as a minor threat to traditional television, and a little bit bigger danger to DVD sales. Launched in 1998, its streaming service is super convenient, available on a wide variety of platforms such as game consoles, smart TVs, blu-ray players, and, my favorite, TiVo. It also offers a d...

Article first published as The Trouble With Football on Blogcritics. It's been a frustration of television fans for a long time that sometimes sports, mainly football, runs over into the favorite programming, pushing the broadcast time later. In the days before DVRs, one tuned in when the show was airing, anyway, and aside from possibly having to stay up a bit later, it wasn't that big a deal. ...

Article first published as Trek Vs. Wars: A Conflict of Interest? on Blogcritics. The news came out recently that J.J. Abrams will be directing the next Star Wars film. Given the fact that he is already heading up the Star Trek franchise, the announcement sparked a negative emotional reaction in me. What if this becomes a conflict of interest? J.J. Abrams is one of the mo...

Article first published as New Trend: Parents Playing Parents? on Blogcritics. Acting is a craft honed with many years of practice and a large degree of talent. But talent alone may not be enough if the actors have to work with other performers with whom they just do not have chemistry. One of the greatest challenges in casting a series is picking people who have the right fit with one an...

Another awards season is upon us, with the Golden Globes just passed, and the Oscars approaching. There will be endless debates about people and films that are undeservedly left off of these lists. This column is not about that. No, my complaint today is with the Golden Globes in particular, and the way that they treat television. Excellent hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened with a joke thi...

A few networks have aired their abandoned pilots as TV specials. These are shows where the first episode was filmed, but production didn't go any further than that, the pilot never having been ordered to series. They don't quite feel like TV movies because there isn't a clear conclusion, but the characters are doomed to never get further development or closure. The most recent examples of th...

With a new year upon us, thoughts turn to fresh starts and new horizons. However, what will be dramatically different for us in 2013 than in 2012? Most people's lives are likely to stay very similar to how they are now. The trick is to make everything old new again. It's a feat our pop culture seems quite dedicated to, especially as of late. I refer, of course, to reboots and remakes of televi...

 With Christmas upon us, everyone's thoughts turn towards the holiday. It's hard even for those not celebrating Christmas to be immune to the season, with stores bustling, selling huge amounts of merchandise, and decked out with various festive decorations. This extends to our favorite television programs, with a great many of them, especially on the broadcast networks, going for a Christ...

 Lost was a seminal television series that changed the face of network offerings. Steeped in mystery, staffed with a large cast, questioning human nature and philosophy, the show took six years to play out, sometimes doling out the clues in tidbits, other times in waves. When it came to an end in 2010, whether fans loved the ending or hated it, many were saddened. Why not? They devot...