My annual year in review. You can check out 2013 here , and 2014 here . As always, I do not purport to have watched every great show on tele...

Decades after his heyday, Blake Hunter remains one of my favorite sitcom writers, and like so many of my favorites (e.g., Bernard Slade on B...

The great soap writer Ann Marcus was first brought aboard Knots Landing in 1981, to shore up the series after a shaky Season 2, and here...

Last January, in my year-in-review post , I made note of my "big break-up" with CBS, and my decision to start devoting more time t...

1. The failed trip. I was re-watching an Old Christine the other night, and wanted to tear my (remaining) hair out. First, because it was ...

Greg Sumner : Abby, you don't believe in anything. Abby Ewing Sumner : That's not true: I believe in money... and power... And in t...

Some random thoughts for a stormy Saturday morning... Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014)

Last spring, CBS and I had an ugly break-up. You probably read about it; it made all the tabloids. First I grew disillusioned with Survivor ...

The conclusion of my latest Doctor Who three-parter: reflections on the Jon Pertwee years. You can read my overview of the era here , and m...

The second chapter of my latest Doctor Who three-parter, beginning a countdown of my top ten Pertwee serials. (You can check out the first ...