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- Keeping It Real: 13 Great TV Comedies Inspired by Actual Events
- The Chef You Can Bring Home to Mom: Graci Adds a Pinch of Integrity to ITV Cooking
- NBC’s Debut Save Me Takes a Page from ITV’s Bible: The Book of Dallas
- Let There Be Light! Sun Valley and the Sunshine State Brighten Up Our Day
- 5 TV Guardian Angels That Walk, Talk, Smite, Smoke, and Save like a Human Being
- Closeted Comedy: If You Come Out And You’re Not Famous, Does Anyone Care?
- The Top 10 Most Disastrous Movie and TV Threesomes
- Revenge Was Only The Beginning: Knerd Knews Redefines ITV News By Waving Its Geek Flag High
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NBC’s Debut Save Me Takes a Page from ITV’s Bible: The Book of Dallas
By Ariel Nishli
As network television continues to suffer losses, now is the time to introduce new material that will hook viewers and sustain their attention. As executives reasoned, what better way to do so than with a show about G-d?
NBC’s latest offering Save Me, starring Anne Heche, premieres Thursday, May 23…
Let There Be Light! Sun Valley and the Sunshine State Brighten Up Our Day
By Adam Pliskin
As long as people are unsatisfied, there’ll be multitudes of stories for them to read about the best jobs to look for and best companies to work at. We always want to excel at our careers, but, if we’re honest, lurking behind all that drive is the desire to bow out of the rat race, pack a bag, and travel the w…
Closeted Comedy: If You Come Out And You’re Not Famous, Does Anyone Care?
By Maria Kern
KoldCast TV’s bold new comedy, Acting Out, explores the double life of a gay actor trying to reconcile his identity with making it big in image conscious Hollywood. “To come out or not to come out” is the flamboyant protagonist Bogie’s ultimate question, and he’s looking for answers in all the wrong p…
Revenge Was Only The Beginning: Knerd Knews Redefines ITV News By Waving Its Geek Flag High
By Toby Burns
There was a time not too long ago when “nerd” was a dirty word. It conjured images of pocket protectors, acne, meticulous hair parts, and tasteless plaid button-downs. But those days are no more. Ours is an era so technologically hip, so wirelessly connected, so reliant upon the screen and the keyboa…
Livin’ Off the Fat of the Land: ITV Travel Series Next Stop Keeps It Simple
By Kira Hesser
In John Steinbeck’s great American novel, Of Mice and Men, a downtrodden George reassures his dimwitted pal Lenny about their plans for the future. “We’re gonna have us a little house and a couple of acres. We gonna live off the fat of the land… and have rabbits.” In 1937 when the novel was published, th…
Great Myths Think Alike: The Curiously Modern Ancient Greek Revival on ITV
By Maria Kern
American television, cinema, and the culture at large are experiencing a late, great, Greek revival. From endless Clash of the Titans sequels to the battle raging between yogurt labels, Grecian is in fashion.
Greek mythology has always had its hand in the stories we tell, but its role was covert, ut…
Two Hundred Babysitters Are Better Than One: Crowdfunding Comedy… Responsibly
By Brad Pike
New York City’s over-the-top babysitting culture was just asking for it: the precocious children, roving helicopter parents, and of course the caretakers themselves, who are often less mature than the kids they watch.
“I’m eleven years old… Somehow, I’m her career advisor,” complains an eleven…
Award Winning ITV Comedy Those With Class Proves Dignity Is Overrated
By Toby Burns
At what moment in life does the wine glass start to feel more comfortable than the red Solo cup? To what extant can you talk about your sexual idiosyncrasies while still remaining a likable party guest? How much domestic squalor is too much domestic squalor? These are the sorts of in-your-face questi…
By Dogsled or Lego Train, Next Stop’s Jon Olson Takes You for a Wild ITV Ride
By Kira Hesser
Jon Olson has devoted his career to making our hearts race. He first tried moving audiences as an actor in Los Angeles, before relocating to the best-kept secret in America – Portland, Oregon – where he enjoyed a brief stint selling defibrillators for a medical supplies company.
While…
The Chef You Can Bring Home to Mom: Graci Adds a Pinch of Integrity to ITV Cooking
By Toby Burns
The last decade or so has seen a glut of culinary entertainment. Food shows have become mainstays on cable, dominated network primetime, and have even given birth to their own channels.
Accordingly, cooking show hosts have proliferated across the television landscape, attuning themselves to di…