The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ are… the various TVLine.com staffers who insist on crafting headlines that leave readers with the incorrect impression that current shows may be “over” as a result of actors jumping on board new Fall Pilots.
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Blogger Beat Down: Extreme Makeover TVLine Headline Edition!
By theTVaddict on March 2nd, 2011 at March 2nd, 2011
Blogger Beat Down: TVGuide.com’s Year End Wrap Up Fail
By theTVaddict on December 30th, 2010 at December 30th, 2010
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.
Blogger Beat Down: HITFIX Wants to Kill DEXTER? Say it Ain’t So!
By theTVaddict on December 6th, 2010 at December 6th, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall, one of the country’s most prolific and popular TV critics whose reaction to today’s fantastic news that Showtime has officially renewed DEXTER for a sixth season was a little along the lines of… Why?
Blogger Beat Down: AOL TV says LONE STAR’s demise a “symptom of everything that has gone wrong at the broadcast networks”
By theTVaddict on October 1st, 2010 at October 1st, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… AOLTV’s Mo Ryan, who in a post earlier in the week asserted that FOX’s swift cancellation of LONE STAR is a “symptom of everything that has gone wrong at the broadcast networks.” Our Take: As much as it pains us to say this to the usually [...]
Blogger Beat Down: Movieline Misses the Mark on TV’s top earners
By theTVaddict on August 12th, 2010 at August 12th, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… Movieline’s Julie Miller who, based on TVGuide Magazine’s just released list of “TV’s Top Earners” seems surprised that the likes of JERSEY SHORE’s Snooki gets paid as much as GLEE’s Matthew Morrison in a piece called “Matthew Morrison is Paid the Same as Snooki, and 5 [...]
Blogger Beat Down: Too Much TV *May* Have Gotten to EW Critic Ken Tucker!
By theTVaddict on August 3rd, 2010 at August 3rd, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… Entertainment Weekly TV Critic extraordinaire Ken Tucker, who last week put forth the opinion that hot on the heels of Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres’ exit, it might behoove FOX to cancel AMERICAN IDOL, “since it’s looking more and more as though it’s going to be [...]
Blogger Beat Down: The Wrap Names TV’s Biggest Show-Killers, We Throw the Book, err… Dictionary at them!
By theTVaddict on June 9th, 2010 at June 9th, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… The Wrap writer Brent Lang who in an obvious (and we should mention very successful) attempt for page views, named Alex O’Loughlin, Mark Feuerstein and Mark Valley among “TV’s 8 Biggest Show-Killers.” Our Take: Putting aside the obvious fact that right out of the gate, author [...]
Blogger Beat Down: In Defense of Ted Mosby
By theTVaddict on March 23rd, 2010 at March 23rd, 2010
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… Entertainment Weekly writer Margeret Lyons who following last night’s episode of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER dubbed Ted Mosby, “the biggest douche in the universe.” Our Take: With all due respect Mrs. Lyons, have ya met Ted? For if you had, you might have clued into [...]
Time Magazine Critic Jumps Shark On BIG LOVE
By theTVaddict on February 23rd, 2010 at February 23rd, 2010
It’s sad when someone who should be an expert on something reveals just how little they know about the genre on which they’re pontificating. Take, for example, Time magazine’s Richard Corliss, who on Sunday decided to declare that BIG LOVE had jumped the shark several weeks earlier. Unfortunately, he gets off to something of a [...]
Blogger Beat Down: Newsweek Wants to Bury DEXTER Six Feet Under!
By theTVaddict on October 19th, 2009 at October 19th, 2009
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… Newsweek writer Joshua Alston who included DEXTER in its list of “Five Failing TV Shows We Should Take Off the Respirator” Our Take: Had this article been written last season —where Dexter learning about friendship had us learning about our PVR’s fast-forward capabilities — we’d be in [...]



