Posted by kittson on 08 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
Welcome to Part 5 of our 9 part series. This is the halfway point. Let’s see how the shows are doing.
Pushing Daisies (ABC) – This highly stylized drama about a pie-maker who brings people back to life by touching them is the first show this season that seems to be pushing the art of television […]
Posted by kittson on 03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
All the network executives are sitting around this week scratching their heads, perplexed as to why their new shows’ ratings are so low. Well, beyond the obvious reason of increased use of DVR’s and downloading, there’s another really good explanation: the shows just aren’t very good. Last year we were blessed with so […]
Posted by kittson on 30 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
While the last set was filled with geeks and slackers, this group of shows seems to be all about the alpha male…and female. We have three about the lifestyle of obscenely rich New Yorkers, two about rogue detectives with nothing to lose, one about a world-class neonatal surgeon, and one show with a new […]
Posted by kittson on 26 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
We’re living in the age of the geek. If you doubt me, check out the trend of this season’s new shows. Hoping to match the break-out successes of “Lost” and “Heroes”, the networks have filled the airwaves with myriad science fiction and supernatural shows like “Bionic Woman”, “Moonlight”, and “Pushing Daisies”. Moreover, […]
Posted by kittson on 24 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Music, Worlds Collide
Nothing thrills us more than a familiar face in a music video, so we were pretty excited when “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven showed up in the Common/Lily Allen collaboration “Drivin’ Me Wild”. He doesn’t do much more than hang back, looking cooler than Vincent Chase, but that’s enough for us. Of course he […]
Posted by kittson on 21 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
It’s September 21, the first day of fall, and the day the Peanut Bloggery begins its coverage of the fall television season. Due some cancellations (“Gilmore Girls”, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”) and some shows waiting until January to start (“Lost”, “Jericho”), we have quite a few openings on the Primetime Index. […]
Posted by kittson on 19 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Television, Review, What I Watched
I’d like to introduce guest Peanut Elizabeth Quinn. Together we’ve compiled a list of series that helped make the summer of 2007 the best TV summer ever.
When I hung the “closed for the season” sign on the “Primetime Index” last May, I was resigned to a typical summer of disappointing television, […]
Posted by kittson on 16 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Movies, Television
Folks who love musicals will enjoy Hairspray; folks who don’t probably won’t.
Hairspray has been adapted from the 2002 Broadway show, which was adapted from the 1988 John Waters film (it’s not the first time – The Producers – and it won’t be the last – The Full Monty, anyone?) Unfortunately, something was lost in […]
Posted by kittson on 22 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
Welcome to the fourth and final night of the Peanut Awards, on which we crown the best of the best. We Peanuts would like to thank all our readers for their enthusiastic responses, especially those folks who posted their comments. Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the final act of the […]
Posted by kittson on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Television, What I Watched
This season was somewhat defined by impatient network programmers and their need to shuffle and yank shows that failed to meet their numerical expectations, no matter the quality. This may have been growing pains, as they have yet to figure out how to accurately report viewer numbers from DVR’s and downloads (many of the […]