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If You Don’t Watch “The Walking Dead” This Following Ramble Will Mean Nothing To You

by Willtelevision 10/17/201110/17/2011Comments are Disabled

There was a great opportunity missed to kick some serious momentary ass in last night’s mostly comatose and soap-operatic premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” but given how overwrought and overacted and frankly over-tedious the 90-minute episode was to watch, it isn’t a surprise to me that the chance escapedÂ the series’ dimwitted block of …

Between The Pit Of Mans Fears, And The Summit Of His Knowledge

by Willtelevision 07/25/201107/26/2011Comments are Disabled

In the bookcase that constitutes the majority of my analog library resides a trade-paperback-sized volume. To describe it as dog-earred would be a lie. It’s spine is in tatters, its back cover is long gone. To describe it as cherished would also be a lie. Over the years I’ve shed hundreds of pounds of books …

All I’m Going To Blog About Last Night’s Academy Awards

by Willtelevision 02/28/201102/28/2011Comments are Disabled

Had “The King’s Speech” not won the Best Picture Oscar last night, I had some incredulous columnist’s headline packed up and ready to tweet: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Stutter!

Follow-up: LA Plays Someplace Else

by Willads, landmarks, los angeles, television 01/27/201101/27/2011Comments are Disabled

Back in November on Blogging.la, I posted about a fancy new fully cinematic and futuristic Air Force “It’s Not Science Fiction” commercial I saw on TV that utilized a decidedly disaster-struckÂ 6th Street Viaduct (over a CGI’d full LA River below) upon which a dramatic rescue operation takes place. I paused the TV to get …

“Recount” Bummed Me Out

by Willpolitics, television 05/27/2008Comments are Disabled

The Memorial Day weekend was rolling strong and steady. Dodger game Friday. Errands and “Indiana Jones” Saturday. Then Sunday Susan and I rose early to drive out the 5 to the 126 all the way out to San Buenaventura to explore the town a bit and ride bikes along the awesome Ventura River Trail and …

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Bionic Rhymes With Moronic

by Willtelevision 09/27/200709/27/2007Comments are Disabled

As with every fall TV season I usually get all revved up about a show. Last year it was “Heroes,” and this time around it was “The Bionic Woman,” which NBC went to such serious lengths to hype. Sure enough the biggity bigbig debut was last night and I bought into the massive build-up enough …

Four’s Company

by Willtelevision 07/30/200707/30/2007Comments are Disabled

That HBO’s Entourage survived my post-Suckpranos-finale boycott of the network surprised me. Seriously, John From Cinncinnati suffered my dismissive wrath. Debuting immediately after Tony and family and a plate of onion rings left us forever in limbo I couldn’t change the channel fast enough and vowed never to return no matter how rave the reviews. …