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Channel Surfing with C.T.

I seriously fall more in love with ONE TREE HILL every week, Trust me, no one on the planet is more surprised by this development than me. But this show isn’t just a guilty pleasure… it is the guilty pleasure of the season. I mean, last night’s episode gave us everything… including the rare male [...]

9 Posted in big brother, Channel Surfing, One Tree Hill, Quarterlife

Dispatches From the Couch: Smart People, Dumb Choices

Last week, Jim Werdell, the chairman of MENSA — you know, those people who are smarter than not only a fifth grader, but you and me, too — released a list of the 10 brainiest shows on the aptly named boob tube. And for many critics, his list might just as well be titled “Fighting [...]

14 Posted in Channel Surfing

Channel Surfing with C.T.

I sincerely hope some media watchdog group out there analyzes Tuesday night’s extensive coverage of the primary results and offers up a report on how often networks (including MSNBC and Fox News) prematurely called elections which wound up going to someone other than the candidate they predicted. Personally, I believe there should be a moratorium [...]

8 Posted in Channel Surfing, Daytime TV, One Tree Hill

Channel Surfing with C.T.

Okay, I’m not saying I didn’t love last night’s episode of LOST — cause I did, even crying not once but twice thanks to Hurley (please, please, please, someone give Jorge Garcia an Emmy!) — but I truly don’t get the media’s turning last night’s episode into the Second Coming. Let me quote the review [...]

6 Posted in Channel Surfing, Eli Stone, Lost

Channel Surfing with C.T.

I’ve finally realized why I’m nuts about the revamped version of ONE TREE HILL: It’s basically morphed into MELROSE PLACE. I was never a big fan of BEVERLY HILLS 90210, which is what HILL most closely represented before fast-forwarding four years. And I stopped tuning into MP when the show became obsessed with trying to [...]

2 Posted in Channel Surfing, One Tree Hill, The Moment of Truth

CT’s Confession

Forgive me, TVAddict, for I have sinned. Either that, or crappy shows have gotten a whole lot better than they once were. Yeah, let’s go with that. Because otherwise, I’m going to have to eat a bit of crow, and there’s nothing that gets stuck in my craw like crow. That said, I have to [...]

24 Posted in Channel Surfing, One Tree Hill, Supernatural

Channel Surfing with C.T.

Wonder if ABC is kicking itself for having wasted their remaining episode of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to try and lure viewers — much as Bree used son Andrew — to CASHMERE MAFIA. Had it worked, they’d be called brilliant, but as the ratings proved, even strike-deprived TV fans had little interest in Darren Star’s attempt to [...]

4 Posted in Cashmere Mafia, Channel Surfing, Desperate Housewives

Channel Surfing with C.T.

Am I alone in thinking that the GOSSIP GIRL storylines involving the adults tend to be more interesting than those of our central teens? Sure, the kids get the good lines (“I don’t speak Ukranian, but I do speak envelope of cash, and he understood me perfectly.”) but they don’t always click as real human [...]

4 Posted in Channel Surfing, Gossip Girl, Reality TV

A Sneak Preview of TV 2008

Oh, sure, with the writers strike sticking around like Britney Spears at an open bar, the networks are keeping a tight lid on their top-secret plans for 2008. Fortunately, your pal CT is in the know. So here, without further ado, are the hush-hush plot twists set to rock your favorite shows if and when [...]

10 Posted in Channel Surfing

Channel Surfing with C.T.

So ONE TREE HILL will be back in a few weeks, and I find myself asking the age-old question: Am I so hard-up for new programs that I’ll give this monstrosity another try? I think we all know the answer. (Is there anybody out there actually excited about its return?) Could fast-forwarding the plot four [...]

11 Posted in Channel Surfing, One Tree Hill, Reality TV