"The Jay Leno Show" deserves to live — no, it deserves to die!
The Boston Globe offers "he said, she said" columns defending and blasting the Leno show. "I don’t really need another cop or medical show at 10," says Joanna Weiss. "And so I want 'The Jay Leno Show’' to go on." Meanwhile, Matthew Gilbert denounces 10 o'clock Leno: "This little flurry of staged enthusiasm is as inauthentic as the opening salvo of an infomercial."
Bethenny Frankel is 2 months pregnant
The recently engaged "Real Housewives" star had been trying to keep the news private.
Kate Gosselin will answer your questions in TLC special
Without any more "Jon & Kate" footage, is TLC now flying by the seat of its pants?
"NCIS" boss calls rise to No. 1 "remarkable"
""Everything that is happening is remarkable but it's probably more remarkable to people who haven't watched the show," says exec producer Shane Brennan. "We're a very strange little show," adds Michael Weatherly, of the show's appealing mix of genres. "There's a real '80s and even '70s throwback feeling. You get a kind of 'Barney Miller' feel with it. It's not quite so grim and static and monotone and dour as a lot of crime shows."
Claim: Fans of the smug "Mad Men" like to congratulate themselves
The problem with the AMC "costume drama," says Benjamin Schwartz, " is that it "deliberately shocks its audience by presenting as reasonable and commonplace behavior we now find appalling. He says that "Mad Men" "directs its audience to indulge in a most unlovely—because wholly unearned—smugness. As artistically mistaken as this stance is, it nonetheless helps account for the show’s success. We all like to congratulate ourselves, and as a group, Mad Men’s audience is probably particularly prone to the temptation." PLUS: "Mad Men" used an L.A. landmark as the Rome Hilton.
"Good Wife" and "Cougar Town" portray women the same way
Julianna Margulies' Alicia and Courteney Cox's Jules are "incomprehensible invaders: independent, single (or single-ish) older women seeking change in their lives and succeeding (sometimes, at least)," says Jon Caramanica. "As a result, they're treated like fragile, curious creatures that might implode on contact. Or lash out." PLUS: Margulies elevates "Good Wife."
