The Boyhood Memoirs of A. E. Hotchner: King of the Hill and Looking for Miracles
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The "All Seth, All the Time" block of animation on FOX is getting stronger every week. I think this may have been the most wholly satisfying episode of The Cleveland Show we've had yet. The show finally knows what it is, the characters are settled in and established, and it even knows where it's going to derive its humor. There's a sweetness to The Cleveland Show that is more reminiscent...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Fox, also, promoted the man-made global warming scam with its popular TV shows the Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Prison Break. Dana Walden, Fox chairman said, “The most powerful way we could communicate the commitment on behalf of our company, was to change the practices within production, as well as work in a message about global warming, about environmental changes, about empowering...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Every year, there's a show that's on the top of viewers' "You mean that's still on the air?" list. Whether the show was good or not, it was one that hung on in obscurity for years and years, getting just enough of an audience to keep it going. You know the shows I'm talking about: The Facts of Life. Wings. Yes, Dear. Matlock.Just Shoot Me. George Lopez. King of the Hill. JAG. Heck, even...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
...I don't know if there are any fellow Olympics nerds out there, but the rollout to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games is getting started, and it is very exciting. On Nov. 4th NBC will run a one-minute promo for the Games across all of its networks, right when primetime starts. The network will also be airing many of the World Cup events that can determine Winter Olympic participation for many athletes....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
In the fall of 2001, these were the comedies that the Fox network was airing: "Futurama," "King of the Hill," "Malcolm in the Middle," "That '70s Show," "Undeclared," "Grounded for Life," "The Bernie Mac Show," "Titus," "Family Guy" and "The Tick." This fall,...
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Last week, we discussed the surprising, albeit less surreal in 2009, news that Fox had picked up an animated TV pilot based on the characters of subversive comic book legend Peter Bagge. Today, the network has greenlit another new animated series, this one from Jonah Hill, who will co-write, provide voice work, and executive produce. Details after the jump... A title for the series was not announced...
Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
You know something is popular when its name becomes synonymous with an entire product category and people start using it as a verb. We don’t search, we Google. We don’t photocopy, we Xerox. We don’t eat gelatin dessert, we eat Jell-O--well, except for us vegetarians. Most importantly though, when we crop Dick Cheney’s face onto a picture of a quail and give it a witty caption...
sheletta.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
OK, there are not too many things I get upset about, but when Fox TV cancelled their long running animated series King of the Hill, I nearly lost it. When I decided to be a stay at home mom and quit got fired from my job, the one thing I looked forward to every day was watching King of the Hill. The repeat episodes were on a local UPN channel every day at 1 p.m., just when Andrew would go down daily...
iMod (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
A California man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to opening tens of thousands of bogus online brokerage accounts and then pocketing the tiny test deposits made by companies like E-Trade Financial and Charles Schwab. Michael Largent, 22, of Plumas Lake, California, had pleaded guilty to two computer fraud charges in May. He had been facing a possible five-year...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Is there anything left to say about the Fox animation bloc at this point? Somewhere along the way, we’ve all decided if we’re Family Guy fans or if we think The Simpsons is still worth keeping up with or whether or not we’re down with American Dad , I think, and now that the four shows making up the animation bloc show off less divergence in worldview than they ever have before, without...
The T Dog Media Blog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The new season is here, and here's the first T Dog's Four Pack for the fall 2009 season: Winners. The Emmy Awards. Neil Patrick Harris rocked as host with a smooth and speedy presentation - and the ratings weren't too bad either. Glee. This Fox musical dramedy has been picked up for a full season after a strong start and a ratings increase from its So You Think You Can Dance lead-in. The Dr. Oz Show....
NAMIC (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
What is said about the great state of Texas (aka The Republic of…) in the other 49 states is mostly true. “Friday Night Lights” isn’t just a book turned movie turned TV series … it’s a ritual and a lifestyle. I knew guys like Boomhauer from FOX’s “King of the Hill,” beer in hand and mumbling gibberish in lieu of speaking. Texas is huge –...
The T Dog Media Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The early returns for Dr. Oz have been positive and Sony Pictures Television and Harpo Productions hope Oz can lead the company down the Yellow Brick Road to riches. The three day average of Dr. Oz - a new medical talk show hosted by Memhet Oz which premiered on Sept. 14 - had a three day average of a 1.7 household rating and a 5 household share , according to Nielsen, up 31 percent from its lead-in...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
A California man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to opening tens of thousands of bogus online brokerage accounts and then pocketing the tiny test deposits made by companies like E-Trade Financial and Charles Schwab. Michael Largent, 22, of Plumas Lake, California, had pleaded guilty to two computer fraud charges in May. He had been facing a possible five-year...
Yikes! (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
From Laugh-In to Boston Legal , Who didn't love the many faces of Henry Gibson? I know I did. Sadly, Gibson died Monday at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73. There it is again ... cancer ... I hate cancer. Gibson's breakthrough came in 1968 when he was cast as a member of the original ensemble of NBC's top-rated "Laugh-In," on which he performed for three seasons....
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