TV
New Dr. J Documentary Better Viewing Than Anything the Sixers Have Done Recently
The Doctor begins with archival footage of Magic Johnson asking Isaiah Thomas for his favorite memory of Julius Erving. The Hall of Famers smile as […]
101 Best-Written TV Shows List Insanely Ranks Friends Above Deadwood
The Writer’s Guild of America—the labor union of film and TV writers—has made a list of the 101 Best-Written English-language TV shows of all time. […]
Game of Thrones Fans Burning Down Internet Over Death Shocker
A warning and advice if you’re a Game of Thrones fan who hasn’t seen last night’s episode: major spoilers ahead, and also, stop whatever the […]
Watch: Woman Wins $1 Million By Solving Hardest Wheel of Fortune Puzzle Ever
That kid from New York may have won this week’s National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “knaidel”, but equally as impressive (OK, actually more impressive) […]
The Best and Worst of TV This Year
It was a rough year for network TV. Many of the most talked about shows continued to appear on cable and through streaming services (Netflix’s […]
Koch Brothers Could Soon Become Philly Media Players
Buried in the recent news that the arch-conservative mega-powerful Koch Brothers were considering buying the Chicago-based Tribune Co., were a couple of potential Philly implications. The […]
Inside Comcast’s New Super-DVR, the X1
Since my DVR is like the waistline of my pants—usually at maximum capacity—I’ve written about my relationship with Comcast a few times. To say we […]
Why You Should Binge-Watch the New Arrested Development
Note: This review is spoiler-free! Not everyone is as weird as I am and wanted to spend two nice days indoors watching and writing about […]
HBO’s Liberace: Never Have So Many Sequins Been So Boring
As one of the butchest actors around, Michael Douglas hardly seems the logical choice to play Liberace. Likewise for Matt Damon as Liberace’s lover, […]
18 Reasons Arrested Development Is the Best Show of All Time
After seven long years, the wait is finally over. This Sunday, Netflix will release new episodes of the classic, legendary, groundbreaking Arrested Development—the show that […]
Is This The End of Kirk And Spock’s Gay Love Affair?
It’s a lesson that must be learned and re-learned, yet it always ends up as something of a surprise: There’s nothing either so beautiful or […]
“The Office” Star Performing in Philly for the Summer
Kate Flannery–aka Meredith the sexually irresponsible Supplier Relations Representative on “The Office”–will be in Philly this summer for a two-week run at the Suzanne Roberts […]
TV’s Favorite Female Veep Doesn’t Need “Happy Pills”
It’s good to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus, yet again. It’s even better to see her as the vice president. Season two of Veep is making […]
Why Your Business Should Look Nothing Like Dunder Mifflin
“Dunder Mifflin was a disaster as a business,” writes Neil Irwin of the Washington Post. Why? For a small firm that sells relatively expensive product, […]
The Office Pulls Off a Shocker: An Incredible Last Episode
Finales are hard. Seinfeld, Sopranos, Sex and the City, Sister Sister: all shows with infamous mediocre series finales. (Okay, I don’t really know about that […]