“Silicon Valley” gets former Twitter exec – We feel like first and foremost, the goal of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” is to convince you to laugh your face off. So what’s the second goal? Making sure that the setting and the lifestyle is at least reasonably authentic. With that in mind, the following news could not be […]
For one reason or another, “Empire” is starting to lose some steam already in its second season. Did Fox get a little greedy with the show? For the time being we’d say that our immediate answer to that is “yes.” Maybe they should have kept the show around 12 episodes, and then waited until the […]
How did “The Flash” premiere on The CW? We’ll be honest here and admit for a minute or two after seeing it trend worldwide on Twitter last night, we started to think that maybe the show actually improved on its series premiere rating … though we’re not sure why we thought that was possible given […]
“Blindspot” lands Lou Diamond Phillips – While we await the future of “Longmire” over on Netflix, Lou Diamond Phillips has landed himself another notable role! Per Deadline, Phillips will recur in multiple episodes of NBC’s “Blindspot” (a rather cush gig) as Saúl Guerrero, a dangerous man who has ties to Bethany Mayfair’s past. While we have certainly seen […]
For the first time since it launched decades ago, ABC Family is undergoing a big change: “Family” will no longer be a part of its name. The network announced on Tuesday that they are switching their name to Freeform, which is going to be a way for the network to appeal further to their new […]
Ladies and gentlemen, we are on the cusp of the first major cancellation of the fall TV season, and it goes by a familiar name: “Minority Report.” The Fox series ended up drawing a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic for its latest new episode Monday night, which marks a new series low and is […]
The CW must really be feeling their new series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” After all, they have now officially announced that they are ordering more scripts even before seeing the premiere episode. Both this series and “iZombie” have been specifically given five more scripts, which could in theory would bring the two shows to 18 episodes of […]
Welcome to the new normal on Sunday nights, were suddenly getting somewhere close to a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic is suddenly worthy of being considered a smash hit. Take, for example, “Quantico.” The fact that it held to its entire 1.9 rating that it got last week is a tremendous achievement, and we’re […]
Tonight, AMC is closing the door on the first season of “Fear the Walking Dead,” and to go along with that, they are doing something with the show that they have not be so inclined to do the rest of the year: Give you a “Talking Dead” aftershow hosted by Chris Hardwick. After the finale […]
We’re starting this particular edition of TV quick hits with something a little more serious, and that is Stephen Colbert having an open, candid discussion of the shooting that took place in Oregon on Friday night’s edition of “The Late Show.” This is a moment of clear vulnerability for Stephen, and it comes with him […]
