Posts by Juliet Litman

  • Team USA: It’s a Beautiful Summer Day! Time to Binge-Watch Common Law’s Freshman Season

    It’s officially August. The fall shows are coming. You’re holding your breath until Connie Britton makes a triumphant return to network television in Nashville. What will you do until then? It’s the perfect time for a television marathon! Fortunately, USA’s newest original series Common Law premiered this summer, and though it started back in May, […]

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Reality TV Friday

    Huge week for reality TV fans: three-hour wrap-up of The Bachelorette, two-hour Bachelor Pad premiere, and the most action on the Real World yet. Once again, we set out to keep this podcast to 35 or 40 minutes, but with so much material to cover, we failed. After all, former VIP cocktail waitress Blakeley had […]

  • Team TNT: In Which We Make the Executive Decision to Grandfather Leverage Into the Team USA Fold

    This summer, populist television enthusiast Juliet Litman is watching the best shows that the fan-loved, yet often critically overlooked, USA Network has to offer. Each week, she’ll give you a rough guide to the lawyers, spies, and rogue medical practitioners on summer’s favorite channel. We’ve reached a crossroads with this Team USA endeavor. On July […]

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Special Reality Edition

    If the Real World can get an entire episode out of a dead barracuda, then we can get an entire podcast out of a dead fish, too. We decided to run it back with the reality TV podcast, covering not only the wildlife of St. Thomas, but also the “Men Tell All” episode of The […]

  • Team USA: Crazy Car Chases, Peter Gallagher’s Eyebrows, and Other Not-So-Covert Affairs

    This summer, populist television enthusiast Juliet Litman is watching the best shows that the fan-loved, yet often critically overlooked USA Network has to offer. Each week, she’ll give you a rough guide to the lawyers, spies, and rogue medical practitioners on summer’s favorite channel. Finally, a USA show about a girl. Covert Affairs returned last […]

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Reality TV Special Edition

    We decided it was time to turn our standard office conversations into a podcast. Reality tsar David Jacoby invited me to the podcast studio to talk about who Emily will choose on The Bachelorette, why I hate Laura from The Real World, the new royalty on the Real Housewives of New York, and whether Love […]

  • Team USA: White Collar Is Your One-Way Ticket to Bomer Town

    Now that we are well into July, the good old USA Network has begun to trot out its heavyweights. White Collar owned Tuesday nights last summer (with some help with Covert Affairs, too; more on that next week), even beating out the networks in its time slot. We’re just one episode into the fourth season. […]

  • Team USA: The Socioeconomic Case for Royal Pains

    Royal Pains may not be the most watched show on USA right now — that would be Burn Notice — but it comes close. Last week it was USA’s second-highest rated drama (barring wrestling), pulling in 3.874 million people. But more importantly, since it premiered in June 2009, it has been an anchor of USA’s […]

  • BURN NOTICE

    Team USA: It’s Burn Notice Season!

    While you weren’t watching, the USA Network’s Burn Notice has quietly carved out a sizable niche for itself. Last week, the sixth-season premiere won the night (on cable, at least), pulling in a very respectable 3.9 million viewers. There are enough Michael Westen fans out there to sustain a series of five tie-in novels and […]

  • Suits

    Team USA: Why You Should Be Watching Suits

    Now that the “good part” of the television season is over (Mad Men and Game of Thrones), and you have a few weeks before Breaking Bad returns, and even The Bachelorette only has a handful of episodes left, you must be looking for television shows to fill your time. While some people don’t think highly […]

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