Television
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Fall TV with Ted CoxSep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - What's new tonight: • "Chuck," 7 p.m., WMAQ Channel 5. TV's season of nerds gets under way on NBC with a Geek Squad-style computer technician having U.S. government secr...
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Regis just can't win!
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Regis Philbin can't get a break. The 76-year-old talk-show host was overlooked yet again for the "Best Regis" award during the fifth annual Relly Awards, ann...
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Alba and Cook raise $260,000 for charity
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Nerd alertSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Blessed be the nerds, for they shall inherit prime time -- if not the rest of the media. The fall TV season formally begins on Monday, and right away one of the top tren...
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Travolta still has the moves 30 years laterSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Thirty years ago, a film about a troubled young man from Brooklyn became a hit around the world. John Travolta starred as Tony Manero, whose ordinary life became magic o...
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Can Tirico's show find local in national?Sep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - I've written it before, and I'll write it again: All sports, like all politics, is local. So it seemed a recipe for disaster earlier this week when Mike Tirico said on a...
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Football trumps Emmys AwardsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Remotely interesting: With the opening "Family Guy" musical number driving viewers away, Fox's Emmy Awards coverage lost to NBC's "Sunday Night Football," even with ...
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Burns zeros in on WWII, but part of bigger picture gets lostSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - World War II is a subject so vast and calamitous, it's almost impossible to grasp for someone who didn't live through it. Filmmaker Ken Burns admits that, calling it "so...
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What's cookin' on 'Top Chef'Sep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - How much more insufferable can Hung Huynh get, you wonder? Way more, as it turns out Wednesday on "Top Chef." In a challenge to dress up chicken, onions and potatoes for...
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Can Tirico's show find local in national?Sep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - I've written it before, and I'll write it again: All sports, like all politics, is local. So it seemed a recipe for disaster earlier this week when Mike Tirico said on a...