Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

I woke up late today hoping to catch the Patriots-Jets game on TV, but the people in charge of my television seemed to have other ideas. To start with, there was only one early game on today: the Colts-Vikings game on CBS. For the late games, Fox got to show the Seahawks-49ers game, and CBS [...]

Every so often, I’d find myself flipping through the channels late on a Sunday night and would stumble onto At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper. The show is on at some crazy time slot (something like 12:35 Sunday night/Monday morning), but every time I caught it I really enjoyed watching the reviews. I would [...]

With the writers’ strike looking more and more like it’s going to lead to a television drought, I thought I’d take a moment and list the shows that I’ve been watching over the past couple of months. Shows like Lost, which haven’t been on for a while, aren’t included. Also, this list isn’t meant to [...]

I’ve been watching a show called High Stakes Poker a lot recently. It’s unique among televised poker in that it shows a cash game instead of a tournament, and you get to see some very good players competing with each other for lots of their own money. The show doesn’t focus too much on the [...]

The other day, Justin commented that he’s never heard me say I didn’t like a TV show. It was just an offhand remark, but it also got me thinking. Am I not critical enough of television? Do I have some kind of tendency to just like whatever they show me? It really had me worried. [...]

This past year, when I played fantasy football, we ran our league on CBS SportsLine. The site was nice enough; they had some down-time, but everybody does when it comes to fantasy football. Evidently, fantasy football is one of the more difficult things to host reliably. CBS was pretty up front about it, though, and [...]

I finally got around to trying out the FrontRow functionality built into my MacBook. I’d always known it was there, but I didn’t think it would work well enough to make me want to go through the trouble of hooking it up to my TV, especially since I already had a Media Center for playing [...]

Just after I got back from my Christmas vacation in Virginia, the second hard drive failed in my Windows Media Center computer. This left me with a fully-functional Media Center, but with very limited space to store my recorded television. I loved my Media Center; I’ve been a fan since first hearing about it, and [...]

So, I’m sitting here watching the football game, and I just saw a new DirecTV commercial. The commercial is mostly old Star Trek footage, but somewhere in the middle of it, Captain Kirk breaks off and starts talking directly to you, the viewer. He’s telling us about how the new view-screen that they put in [...]

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something about Chase’s new credit card commercial seems strange to me. Oh wait, I know what it is. It’s the fact that they’re using a cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” as background music. I mean, didn’t they realize how unbelievably ironic that [...]