Critics

Love It! Hate It! 08.28.07


The Murder of Princess Diana (Lifetime)
" ... salacious."
Laura Fries, Variety

Rock of Love (VH1)
" ... carnival sludge: a nauseating paste of fried dough, cigarette ash, salt and grain alcohol."
Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.24.07


Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
" ... the usual eclectic mix of guests."
Staff of zap2it.com

Boston Legal (ABC)
" ... isn't a great show, but it does come up with some great, flashy ideas."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

Love It! Hate It! 08.23.07


Star Jones (Court TV)
" ... utterly off-putting."
Brian Lowry, Variety

Murder (Spike TV)
" ... disturbing, to say the least."
Susan Stewart, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.21.07


Anchorwoman (FOX)
" ... think of this as 'The Simple Life' in a different venue."
Brian Lowry, Variety

God's Warriors (CNN)
" ... there is much to learn from and to be said about (it)."
Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter


As You Like It (HBO)
" ... a handsomely mounted production."
Brian Lowry, Variety

Amazing Adventures of a Nobody (Fox Reality)
" ... the latest televised attempt to make Americans look like extraterrestrials."
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.18.07


It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX)
" ... contains ... spark and irreverence."
Brian Lowry, Variety

Yo Gabba Gabba (Nick Jr.)
" ... nonstop, extremely colorful and tuneful to the hilt."
Marilyn Moss, The Hollywood Reporter

Love It! Hate It! 08.17.07


Meerkat Manor (Animal Planet)
"The greatest soap opera the desert has ever known."
Staff of aol.com

The Fashionista Diaries (Soapnet)
" ... avoids submitting to every cliché of the fashion world, and to this I raise my glass."
Ginia Bellafante, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.16.07


Live from Lincoln Center (PBS)
"It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
Staff of zap2it.com

NASCAR in Primetime (ABC)
" ... basically an extended commercial."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

Love It! Hate It! 08.15.07


i-Caught (ABC)
" ... an hourlong commercial for YouTube and MySpace."
Mike Hale, New York Times

The Hills (MTV)
" ... what it's like to be young, tan and have really white teeth in Los Angeles."
Staff of LA Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.14.07


High School Musical 2 (Disney Channel)
" ... offers plenty to tune in for."
Laura Fries, Variety

Weeds (Showtime)
" ... at last has become a show about consequences."
Ginia Bellafante, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.11.07


Californication (Showtime)
" ... by turns, tawdry and funny."
Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter

John From Cincinnati (HBO)
" ... almost completely inaccessible."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

Love It! Hate It! 08.10.07


Claire (Hallmark Channel)
" ... it appears everybody is just waiting for it all to be over."
Laura Fries, Variety

Bounty Girls Miami (Court TV)
" ... enlightening, specious and rabid."
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.09.07


Hotel Babylon (BBC America)
"British reviewers pegged "Hotel Babylon" correctly when they called it flashy, trashy, cheeky, frothy and 'like a perfectly executed souffle.'"
Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter

Baldwin Hills (BET)
" ... highly satisfying, if not exactly exciting, television."
Mike Hale, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.08.07


The Power of 10 (CBS)
" ... an extended Family Feud."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

The Knights of Prosperity (ABC)
"Enjoy them while you can, because it'll be 'nighty-night, Knights' soon."
Staff of zap2it.com

Love It! Hate It! 08.07.07


Lights! Action! Music! (PBS)
" ... a fluffy, disorganized, woefully incomplete compendium of interviews and film clips."
Stephen Holden, New York Times

Jekyll (BBC America)
" ... a strange case of tinkering with a classic, wonder of wonders, without screwing it up."
Brian Lowry, Variety

Love It! Hate It! 08.04.07


Masters of Science Fiction (ABC)
"One is quite good, another's better than OK, and two are fairly lousy"
Brian Lowry, Variety

The Company (TNT)
" ... a spicy drama."
Alessandra Stanley, New York Times

Love It! Hate It! 08.03.07


Drake and Josh: Really Big Shrimp (Nickelodeon)
"Humor runs the gamut from clever to base, and the pic feels kind of like a contempo version of "The Monkees," only without the gimmicky camerawork."
Laura Fries, Variety

The Office (NBC)
"Michael is a guest speaker at Ryan's business school ... directed by Buffy creator Joss Whedon. Having seen the networks' new fall offerings, all I can say is boy, could we use Whedon back full time."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story (PBS)
"... memorable clips just keep on rolling. Totally cool."
Mike Duffy, The Detroit Free Press

Love It! Hate It! 08.02.07


Indie Sex (IFC)
" ... an intriguing snapshot of where we are and how we got here without delivering much depth."
Brian Lowry, Variety

Hey Paula (Bravo)
" ... kinda crazy, but we can't look away."
Staff of Aol.com

Love It! Hate It! 08.01.07


Murder (Spike TV)
"So slickly produced it's easy to overlook just how inane the premise is."
Brian Lowry, Variety

The Singing Bee (NBC)
" ... wouldn't be the first such show to start big and collapse fast as people get it, grow bored and move on."
Robert Bianco, USA Today

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