The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
July 16, 2012
’Shipping Newsroom Season 1, Episode 4: ‘I’ll Try to Fix You’
With the summer TV pickings so terribly slim this year, Hollywood Prospectus editor Emily Yoshida has had to get creative in the search for some scripted romantic intrigue until her CW shows come back. Here’s your week in ‘ships on HBO’s The Newsroom. Will & Wade Mac asks Will if it’s OK for her boyfriend […]
Read moreInsane Clown Posse Gather the Juggalos Once More Via 23-Minute, Zombie-Infested Infomercial
Guess who’s playing the annual Gathering of the Juggalos?
Read moreB.S. Report Rewind: The American Idol Overhaul Fantasy Draft
Back in mid-March, when the two-month-old American Idol season had started to devolve from “semi-fun way to waste a couple of hours on a Wednesday night” to “unbearable death-slog during which a crow that looks like Phillip Phillips pecked out your eyes and cawed the melody to ‘Ants Marching’ in your ear,” we took some […]
Read moreTrue Blood Season 5, Episode 6: ‘Hopeless’
A yellow-eyed werewolf drags B.D.W.R. down a hospital corridor as two others go in for The Scarecrow (Bill) and The Tin Man (Eric). A reconstituted Russell wearing dirty blue striped linen pajamas tries to make Sookie part with more of her precious fairy blood. Sookie shoots a burst of Spidey-Stackhouse energy from her palms, which […]
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Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 1: ‘Live Free or Die’
The fifth season of Breaking Bad opens with a series of images so shocking, confusing, and disorienting that it makes Season 2’s floating teddy bear acid trip seem downright conventional. Yes, the time jump is surprising, as is Walt’s full head (and face!) of hair, his new identity as a proud New Hampshirite, and the […]
Read moreComic-Con 2012: All-New Godzilla! All-New Superman! All-New Three-Boobed Lady From Total Recall!
What went down this weekend in San Diego?
Read moreJuly 13, 2012
Songs of the Week: Frank Ocean Likes Golden Girls, Beanie Sigel Says Good-bye
Hear seven days of jams.
Read moreTrailers of the Week: Gangster Squad, Cosmopolis, Sleepwalk With Me and More
Oz: The Great and Powerful (March 8, 2013) Silver: I make no secret of my steadfast and wholehearted love for Sam Raimi. I’ll get his back when needed (“Spider-Man 3 was not his fault. It’s one of the clearest examples of studio meddling”), apologize for him (“But you have to admit the baseball scenes in […]
Read moreHollywood 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 […]
Read moreNew Community Showrunners Humbly Pledge Not to Screw Up the Show
There’s softball, there’s whiffleball, and then there’s what happened at Comic-Con on Friday morning, when Moses Port and David Guarascio, Community’s newly installed replicant showrunners, faced tough questioning from a room full of people dressed as Nightcrawler. (This isn’t a cheap Comic-Con joke. Someone dressed as Nightcrawler actually asked a thoughtful query about Asperger’s syndrome. […]
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Your Breaking Bad Season 5 Gambling Prop Guide
Breaking Bad! It’s back! Finally! Actually it’s only been gone for nine months — basically a human gestation period — but for some reason it’s definitely felt more like a Jessica Simpson pregnancy. The truth is we needed the time to recover. It’s not good for the heart to deal with mass alcohol poisonings and […]
Read moreAll Hell Breaks Loose on American Idol
Steven Tyler is out. Jennifer Lopez is out. Mariah Carey is in? Randy Jackson, whom you’d assume would step away from the judges’ table only if prompted by a swarm of SWAT team laser-sights dancing across his forehead at the end of a 36-hour standoff involving a Comme des Garçons dynamite vest, a Patek Philippe […]
Read moreM. Night Shyamalan Literature! Bobby Digital! Kristen Stewart Eating Mountain Lions! It’s Comic-Con 2012!
Hear what’s going on in San Diego this week.
Read moreVideo on Demand Report: Geeks, Graffiti, and a Pro-life Love Story
The Headliner Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope If you’re like me, the idea of spending good American money to hang out with all the weirdos at San Diego Comic-Con (which is happening right now, as you probably know, since you are on the Internet right now) is unthinkable, what with the noise and the […]
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Grantland Reality Fantasy League: The Greatest Excuse in Television History
Look, I’m smart enough to know that I’m not smart enough to understand all the implications of the breakdown between DirecTV and Viacom. But I would like to point out that one of the results of the breakdown in their negotiations, the fact that I no longer have Viacom channels in my living room, is […]
Read moreWant to Know Some Stuff About Homeland’s Second Season?
Not that much stuff. Just a small amount of stuff.
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