In which we continue to draw Life Lessons from this season’s surprise source of integral wisdom (and ripping-good reality TV), “Project Runway.” Lesson 10: There’s No Room for Drama on a Deadline In Episode 4, the designers had to go from working solo to a cluster fuck collaborating in teams! Of three designers each. Mon [...]
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Coming off of a self-imposed, five-year cable hiatus, it figures that my first real Destination TV airs on network. “Medium” (NBC, Mondays 10/9pm) stars Patricia Arquette as Arizona psychic Allison Dubois. Nominally a show about the super-dooper mental powers she employs in the service of various tricky cases for the D.A.’s office (she sees dead [...]
Seems ABC has elected not to play host to the Miss America Pageant anymore. I’m not surprised. As a brand, “Miss America” has utterly failed to keep pace with the times. In his TVWatch column for MediaPost, Wayne Friedman wisely sums it up: Broadcasting & Cable (B&C) needed nearly 2,000 words to explain why “Miss [...]
I love TV like I love an ever-evolving list of items (peppermint tea, salted cashews and heavy blankets) that make me feel safe and comforted. Perhaps as I grow more adept at comforting myself in other ways (meditation? yoga? naps?), TV will lose its luster as my psychic pacifier, but for now, I’ve got it [...]
