The Tube: If it looks like quality?
Every mall in America has a kiosk full of bright colored, often gaudy purses, intended to mimic designer styles but sold for a fraction of the price. While some of them look quality at first glance, ...
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The Tube: Why the classics?
Although people nowadays don't delve into its past as actively as before, film is a medium with a past that is acknowledged and cherished. If it wasn’t, there wouldn't be any effort by people like Ma...
The Tube: Social television connects us to content, but not each other...
A couple weeks ago, a professor said to me, “Since you’re a TV person, you are used to watching stuff alone.” For a few minutes I freaked out about potentially being this sad loner screening televisi...
The Tube: Saying goodbye to 30 Rock
2006 saw the debut of two series that built their plots around the behind-the-scenes action of shows with disturbing similarities to Saturday Night Live. The first was Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the...
The Tube: Free yourself from traditional cable packages
In the second installment of a two-part series on a la carte television, Melissa Zimdars asks whether viewers can already unbundle themselves by moving away from traditional cable packages and toward...
The Tube: The Price of Choice
In the first installment of a two-part series on a la carte television, A.C. Hawley asks if viewers can expect to save money by moving away from traditional cable packages and toward purchasing indiv...
The Tube: America’s Favorite Scapegoat
I was recently in Austin, Texas, for a television studies conference. Yes, people actually study TV. While I was there, I picked up a copy of the publication Infowars, which is either a collection of...
The Tube: Fall Lineup Report Cards
With the fall in full effect, TV watchers are moving toward mid-season, the time when some shows get their walking papers while others get a vote of confidence. This serves as an excellent time to ch...
The Tube: Parenthood and Friendship
After seven years of watching “Gilmore Girls,” the series finale was bittersweet. I went through high school and college during the same time as the main character, Rory. I identified with her nerdy ...
The Tube: Television Flow Trips
It all began with a British tourist’s trip to Miami. The man noticed the movie he was watching one night was actively connected to two other movie trailers that played during commercial breaks. The m...
The Tube: Fall TV Preview
We’re upon one of my favorite times of year: the fall TV season! Increasingly, program releases are staggered throughout the year, with some of my favorites airing in the traditionally rerun-dominate...
The Tube: Go-Go Juiced
The mid-August debut of TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” (HCHBB) was surrounded by an inordinate amount of hype for a reality television show. However, the hype wasn’t because TV critics anticipated...
The Tube: The Queen Isn't Dead
According to my Tumblr feed, all the hip kids are raving about David Lynch’s early ‘90s serial drama Twin Peaks. Bloggers such as high school pop culture genius Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie wr...
The Tube: Breakfast Bland
Regis Philbin’s announced retirement, after 28 years, from the syndicated Live franchise that he shared first with Kathie Lee Gifford and then with Kelly Ripa, hasn’t exactly set the industry trade p...
The Tube: Breakfast Bland
Regis Philbin’s announced retirement, after 28 years, from the syndicated Live franchise that he shared first with Kathie Lee Gifford and then with Kelly Ripa, hasn’t exactly set the industry trade p...