You can keep your first-impression roses — the real first sign of summer is Cat Deeley standing on a rooftop, announcing a new season of So You Think You Can Dance. “The dance competition you know and love is back,” declares Our Lady of Making That Outfit Work. And she means back — back to a time before the series tried aging down its talent pool or pitting stage and street dancers against each other. Read More...
Seth MacFarlane makes cartoons about dumb guys. That’s his job, and he’s done it so well with clueless buffoons like Peter Griffin that Family Guy has becomeone of the top-rated shows on Fox. So why is his latest pilot, Dads, which he created alongside fellow Family Guy producers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, inspiring so much outrage over its “racist” humor that one watchdog group is calling for Fox to reshoot the pilot? Read More...
Okay, maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea for ABC to yank All My Children from the schedule: For the 2010-11 season that ended May 22, the aging sudser was down 18% in the key women 18-49 demo (0.9 rating versus last year’s 1.1 rating). That makes it the lowest-rated soap in daytime, not to mention the least watched (2.4 million this season, down from last year’s 2.7 million). Sorry, Susan Lucci, but that’s just not good. Read More...
