TV Watch

A trailer for HBO's Clear History

Who to vote for? Damaris, Rodney, or Russell? Um, no, thanks.by KenActually, the post title is a little misleading, with that "everything you need to know before casting your vote." For those who haven't heard, this year the choice among the final three candidates is being made by viewers.

If I don't have access to CBS programming by the time new episodes of The Good Wife begin airing in the fall, I'll be peeved. Otherwise, I think I'm good.by KenIt sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? An entire Big Four TV network simply disappearing?

Creator-writer-producer Aaron Sorkin talks about Episode 1 of the Season 2 of The Newsroom."What's more frightening than the perversion of our great history is that sensible, smart, strong Republicans, the very men and women who should be standing up to radical fundamentalism, are so frightened of losing primary battles to religious zealots that they've thrown in the towel on sanity."-- News Night anchor and managing editor Will McEvoy(Jeff Daniels), in the Season 1 finale of The Newsroomby KenVery Sorkinesque -- how better to describe the way that creator-writer-producer Aaron Sorkin has w

I've just finished watching the 2004 film of Michael P's epic 2003 journey through the Himalaya and surrounding regions. The map above should be intelligible enough (you should be able to click to enlarge it) to suggest the scope of the journey, except that the copy of the book covers over the early segments in Pakistan and India.by KenI've written about my excitement at rediscovering the early Michael Palin travel-trek series on British DVDs.

Easily the dopiest challenge of Season 9 of Next Food Network Star was Episode 4's "Dinner and a Movie," in which three-person teams not only had to create a dinner suitable for a genre of movie -- romance, Western, and musical -- but do a trailer for it. Team Musical (Rodney the pie man, Chris, and Lovely) sang, God help us.

Tony takes care of business in "College" (Season 1, Episode 5).by KenIt so happens that a couple of nights before word reached us that James Gandolfini had died of a heart attack in Rome at 51, I watched most of a Sopranos episode that I happened to notice on one of the HBO channels.

by KenNormally I wouldn't try to write about a show like USA's Graceland after only two episodes, especially when I'm so conflicted about it. It's always possible, for example, that once I've absorbed all the characters and circumstances piled on us in these early episodes, it will all fit together more credibly and interestingly.

MDL's Boys of NY: "I Feel Pretty" Ryan, "I HateSchnitzel" Fredrik, and "My Hair! My Hair!" Luisby KenI let slip last week that I have been known to watch Bravo's Million Dollar Listing. I'm not proud of this. Still, maybe it's something we ought to talk about.It started with the original version of MDL, which is to say the version that's now called Million Dollar Listing L.A. or something like that, now that there's a Million Dollar Listing New York.