Last night's How I Met Your Mother finally saw Britney take a meaningful stab at no longer appearing to the public as a drugged-up/sex-crazed ditz by taking on a role as a receptionist/sex-crazed…   Read Story »

Remember the sleepover party video for "All For Swinging You Around"? Imagine how much more fun it would've been if John Kruk was there. Or not. In case you didn't grow up in the Tri-State area, or…   Read Story »

Fresh premises don't come easy for a show 19 years into its existence, but hats off to last night's The Simpsons, mining nostalgia for the decade after the show was created. It was That '90s Show:…   Read Story »

Kanye's Connect Four thrashing was our excuse to bring up The Wire yesterday. Today's excuse: Tom Waits and Steve Earle. Show obsessives (there are no casual fans, here) know that Steve plays…   Read Story »

Spotted: C in the back of his limo driving up and down Park Ave. Heard: "One Week Of Danger," one of five songs by the Virgins featured in last night's episode of Josh Schwartz's CW soap Gossip Girl.…   Read Story »

As mentioned yesterday morning before our little site malfunction, a recent night in PJs watching a bygone Gossip Girl (the Ivy Week one, where all the kids vie to escort Ivy League school…   Read Story »

Gotta love Tracy Morgan, right? Well, even if you haven't in his SNL past -- which we find hard to believe -- dude nails it with this seemingly unending, "sweaty," riffing Halloween and Judaism tune,…   Read Story »

Queens Of The Stone Age are playing a mile underground in a German salt mine next month (true), but when it comes to the holidays, there's no place like the warm kitchen of a celebrity chef: Oui,…   Read Story »

Summer was fun etc., but we've been riding unreasonable levels of excitement for the fall TV season; us high culture junkies are in need of a fix. And this fall more than any other -- riding the well…   Read Story »

Bit the bullet and spent an hour with CBS's Cold Case last night, sorta like CSI series, except set in Philadelphia: dealing with old, unresolved crimes; and for last night's very special show only,…   Read Story »