An Apology
I seem to apologize a lot on this blog and most of the time those apologies are about my not posting on a more regular basis. This isn’t going to be any different, so I suppose I should apologize for...
View ArticleImitation Cheese
There are some shows where you can just picture the “elevator pitch” made to the network. Take the new ABC reality competition series The Taste for example. I imagine the elevator pitch went something...
View ArticleNBC’s 2013-14 Season
NBC was the first network to announce their new schedule on Sunday, following a precedent that they had set last year (and which I completely forgot about). The network, which was once the premiere...
View ArticleCBS’s 2013-14 Schedule
CBS is a network that has the luxury of doing things that other networks wouldn’t do, like cancelling shows that win their time periods because they didn’t win in the “right” way. Which is to say that...
View ArticleThe CW’s 2013-14 Schedule
The CW has its own standards of success that aren’t necessarily the standards of other networks. It explains why shows like Gossip Girl and 90210 lasted as long as they did. What is of interest is that...
View ArticleI’m Ba-ack
Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be back reviewing this season’s new shows in the next day or two. Who am, you ask? I’m Brent McKee the proprietor of this little corner of the Internet that is...
View ArticleThe First Series Cancelled Is…
The ironically named Lucky 7 after two episodes. The second episode of the ABC Tuesday night drama had a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic (which we know are the only people whose buying habits...
View ArticleFirst Comedy Cancelled No Surprise
It’s We Are Men.And I’m not kidding that it wasn’t a surprise. There are so many reasons why this show was going to fail that would be apparent to anyone who isn’t a network TV executive that it really...
View ArticleLate Night Turnover
So Craig Ferguson has announced that he’ll be leaving the Late Late Show in December of 2014. This the the fourth of the broadcast network late night talk shows to either replace their hosts or...
View ArticlePrelude to Upfronts: Cancellations and Pick-ups
Before I started this blog, the whole business of “Network Upfronts” was as foreign as the Greek language to me. All I knew is that sometime in May the US networks would announce their new shows and...
View ArticleNBC Upfronts 2015-16
It’s that time of year again when the US broadcast TV networks cancel the shows they decided didn’t work last season and unveil the new shows that they believe will sweep up audiences in droves… most...
View ArticleTroubles
I am officially having problems posting to this blog. In the past I’ve used Microsoft Live Writer to post new entries to my blog, and before that Microsoft Word. However during my recent almost year...
View ArticleProblem Resolved
Title says it all. It was related to two factor authentication from Google and the need for a Google generated password to access Google websites with third-party, non-browser tools. Complicated and I...
View ArticleMy Latest Blog
I just started a new blog called That’s What I Think About That. Don’t bother going there yet; there’s nothing there yet. It’s a work in progress that hasn’t progressed very much. What I wanted was a...
View Article2015 Emmy Predictions
I’m going to try to predict this year’s Emmy awards “scientifically” using four basic rules. Two of the rules are Positive, one is Negative, and one is what I guess you could call Neutral or...
View ArticleAm I Getting Too Old For This?
This isn’t a review of the show I’m going to be talking about because I broke one of my cardinal rules of reviewing anything. I suppose you could call it more of a musing about the universe and my...
View ArticleFirst Cancellation–Wicked City
ABC has announced that they will be pulling their new series Wicked City after three episodes. For now it will be replaced by reruns of reality series Shark Tank which had held down the time slot while...
View ArticleStreaming Boxes–A Biased Overview
I should start by stating a few things that should really disqualify me from writing about this subject, but really when has this ever stopped anyone. I have a third generation Apple TV. I don’t have...
View ArticleCheck Out My New Blog
Check out my new Blog First Against The Wall Come The Revolution. It's a work in progress, which you can tell because there are no ads on it yet. but I'm having a bit of fun with some of the dumb...
View ArticleFOX Upfronts 2016-17
(Writer’s Note: I’m falling behind on doing these upfront reports. A big part of it is that I seem to have limited time to do the actual writing during the daytime – it’s may and among other things I...
View ArticleWell That Was Embarassing
So last night I posted my evaluation of the new FOX network shows to go along with my NBC evaluation. I THOUGHT! What actually happened was that my NBC evaluation vanished. I think I know what...
View ArticleCBS Upfronts 2016-17
Well hopefully this will post properly without devestating the FOX upfronts post or destroying the multiverse.CBS is the most viewed TV network in the United States, although there are those who say...
View ArticleI’m A Republican (And I Didn’t Even Know It)
I’m a pretty liberal kind of guy. I vote for the NDP (I’m Canadian) and I take for granted things like single payer government health care, gun control and allowing Syrian refugees to immigrate into...
View Article2016 Emmy Awards – By The Rules
Or as it should probably be known: the night that a broadcast network gives up three hours at the start of the season to honour cable and streaming TV – particularly HBO. It’s true. Cable and streaming...
View ArticleMixed Results for The Rules
Well that was an “interesting” Emmy Awards. There were enough surprises to make the alteration of the voting rules to a single round plurality rather than a ranked ballot majority seem like a “good...
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