Despite being at the end of the run for both UPN and The WB, the gang spends most of the time talking about The CW. And bros killin’ stuff. Continue reading »
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TV Book Club: Season Finale, Chapters 7-10
Cory feels that Susanne Daniels doesn’t appreciate Smallville enough, and Kerensa blames Jamie Kellner for everything. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Season Finale, Chapters 4-6
The book club crew discusses Buffy, Creek and the UPN dumpster fire. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Season Finale, Prologue – Chapter 3
Kerensa “WHAT” Cadenas and Eric Thurm join the book club as we talk about fin-syn, celebrity power couples, and cast the Aaron Sorkin-scripted adaptation of the book. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: It’s the Pictures That Got Small, Chapter 5-Conclusion
For the end of our second TWTV book club, stunt casting aplenty! Or rather, a discussion of what it meant and continues to mean for TV. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: It’s the Pictures That Got Small, Chapter 4
This week’s book club explores the early sitcoms and the women who made them possible. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: It’s The Pictures That Got Small, Chapter 3
The drama anthology host isn’t around much these days, but a look at them in 1950s says a lot. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: It’s The Pictures That Got Small, Chapter 2
Chapter 2 asks what it took to be a television personality in the 1950s, and the TWTV book club asks how those standards play into the current day. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: It’s The Pictures That Got Small, Introduction – Chapter 1
We discuss Hollywood history and whether the Web is the new TV for actors in this week’s book club. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: A chat with Christine Becker, author of It’s The Pictures That Got Small
We talk with Christine Becker, the author of It’s The Pictures That Got Small, about the book’s inspiration and its appeal for TV and film history buffs. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Top of the Rock, Chapters 13-16
Will & Grace marks the end of Must See TV and our first book club. Oh, and punching post-Littlefield NBC in the face for 20 pages. Don’t forget that. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Top of the Rock, Chapters 10-12
In this week’s book club, it’s all about ER and we think NBC comes off as really REALLY lucky. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Top of the Rock, Chapters 6-9
This week’s installment of the TV Book Club considers Mad About You, Frasier, Friends, and fake TV executives. Continue reading »
TV Book Club: Top of the Rock, Introduction-Chapter 5
What makes NBC so damn compelling? Why is Warren Littlefield so self-congratulatory? Who knew Whoopi Goldberg was such a Yoko? Continue reading »