From eating healthier to putting a stop to our fiscally irresponsible TV on DVD purchases, your very own TV Addict is embarrassed to admit that our track-record for keeping New Year’s Resolutions is spotty at best. So in leu of our traditional end-of-year post that has us setting lofty goals like cutting back on hours spent in front of the small screen (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, why can’t we quit you?) or improving of PVR/DVR management skills (We swear, we’re totally planning on watching those last three episode of THE EVENT that we’ve been saving since November), we’ve decided to narrow down our resolutions resolution to one very simple goal for the year: Watch three shows that have been gathering dust on our DVD shelf for more time than we care to remember. How about you?
Archives for December 2010
Your Ultimate Guide to the Best of the Web: New Year’s Resolutions Edition
It’s the time of year for New Year’s resolutions, however for many of us those optimistic lists we make will never be more than lists. But remember that the Internet is full of web videos that can help you finally accomplish those goals. Here’s a countdown of popular resolutions and web videos you can use to work on them.
TEN! “Get a Better Career”: The Job Club is a web series with tips on things like improving your current career, finding a new job, and starting a business.
NINE! “Travel More”: The Frugal Traveler gives advice on how to see the world on a budget.
EIGHT! “Get More Exercise” Find workouts, fitness tips and more at Exercise TV. [Read more…]
First Look: Alyson Hannigan Gets Simpsonized!
When THE SIMPSONS returns with its first new episode of 2011 on January 16, it’s about to get a helluva lot better for the citizens of Springfield. Not only do Kristen Wiig and Alyson Hannigan drop by as a mother daughter duo that sweeps Principal Skinner, and to a lesser extent, Bart off of their feet. But Smithers (alongside Grady, voiced by special guest star Scott Thompson) will give Moe a much-needed lesson in acceptance when they help transform his dingy pub into “Mo’s,” Springfield’s new local gay hangout. More first look photos of which can be found after the jump.
Blogger Beat Down: TVGuide.com’s Year End Wrap Up Fail
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ are… various TVGuide.com staffers, who may-or-may-not have gone a wee bit overboard on the eggnog while compiling their annual year end wrap up this holiday season. [Read more…]
Our Top 10 TV Shows of 2010
While they may not have been the year’s most critically acclaimed or the country’s most popular, each the following shows made this TV Addict’s Top 10 of ’10 for the simple reason that each week, they left us jonesing another fix. You know those people who say “less is more?” Yeah, they’re totally wrong. As the following programs prove, too much is never enough.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About GLEE Star Chord Overstreet
Watch, PVR, Pass: Tuesday December 28, 2010
When the World Cracks: The cancellation of STARGATE: UNIVERSE has left a fan-base reeling in after-shock
By: Tiffany Vogt
On the fateful day that it was announced the Syfy had canceled STARGATE: UNIVERSE the sci-fi fans rose up in anger and the sleeping horde of sci-fi fans let their voices be heard. It was the second time in as many months that a beloved sci-fi series had been canceled – on the same television network no less. It was a double-blow to an increasingly diminishing genre.
Science fiction has always been a hard sell on television. For one, the mass viewing audience tends to avoid anything remotely looking like science fiction. Another reason for the problems surrounding sci-fi shows gaining traction on the television landscape is that sci-fi fans are picky in what they will embrace. They are unforgiving of so-called bad sci-fi shows or lackluster writing.
Whatever the multitude of reasons, sci-fi fans did not whole-heartedly embrace CAPRICA and STARGATE: UNIVERSE. Thus, it was with a heavy-heart that both were reluctantly canceled. But the ratings showed that fans were abandoning the shows, not sticking by them. So in light of the eroding audience retention, the ax fell.
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Morning Static: FALLING SKIES, THE MENTALIST, THE DAILY SHOW & More!
• First Look: Noah Wyle returns to TV in Steven Spielberg’s FALLING SKIES (See Trailer Above)
• Is Jon Stewart the new Edward R. Murrow? Discuss.
• In Memoriam: Remembering the TV Shows we lost this year.
• Gay actor Richard Chamberlain has a message for up and coming actors who may-or-may-not-still be in the closet: Stay there.
• Best Christmas ever for THE MENTALIST star Simon Baker? Ummm.. .yeah.