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Many reality television shows have some kind of secret twist at the end for the contestant, a scintilating surprise that only the audience is in on. Recall Bravo’s 2003 “Boy Meets Boy,” a gay dating show where not all the suitors were gay, unbeknownst to the suitor. But rarely has the audience itself been “punked,”…

I remember being equal parts curious and disturbed several years ago when my mother told me that she really enjoyed “The 40-year old Virgin.” Disturbed, since one naively doesn’t like to imagine one’s mother enjoying such sexually explicit humor (much in the same way we don’t like to think of our parents actually having sex)…

In announcement that will surely crush every sci-fi fanboy and fangirl out there, not to mention this reporter, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, executive producers of “Battlestar Galactica,” have decided that season four will be the last for the Peabody Award-winning series. “This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and…

Nearly 50 years after they met, and despite thousands of articles, books, radio interviews, film documentaries and tribute albums, we’re still finding out how little we know about The Beatles, as a band and a phenomenon. Even Paul McCartney is finding out about his own songs, as John Colapinto’s profile “When I’m Sixty Four” in…

“In Christian music, ‘show business’ is an irrelevant concept,” a Christian singer said in CCM magazine recently. Her statement wasn’t meant as a criticism but a kind of brag, and until earlier this month, it could have served neatly as the motto of CCM itself. But now the granddaddy of Christian music magazines–fearing that it…

I’m sick and tired of committing to shows, watching faithfully every week, and then seeing them cancelled without any resolution of the story lines. Last year it was the abrupt cancellation of “Invasion” after what I thought was a pretty gripping first year. This year I could accept the “Gilmore Girls” ending after seven seasons–that…

I’ve already got a new television addiction for the summer months (thank God!). It may not be deep and layered like “The Sopranos” (I’ve maintained the ban on my former favorite HBO series since last season’s horribly disturbing Vito storyline), but it’s as relentlessly nonstop as “24.” In fact, it might be the new “24.”…

Reality shows have often toed the line between taste and tact–think “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire.” But there have been times when audiences find a concept even too distasteful for their voracious appetites–remember CBS’s cancelled-after-one-airing “The Will,” wherein the contestants vied for the inheritance of a ranch in Kansas? Or how about the British…

Will Ferrell just made a new movie for free, and 30 million people have already seen it. What? You didn’t see the trailer? You didn’t hear the build-up? Not much talk about it on E! or Premiere? Welcome to a new trend that could be really cool or could fade really fast. According to today’s…

Lindsay Lohan was arrested again and is back in rehab. Britney Spears is blogging theology and confessions. Paris Hilton is talking about how much she dreads her upcoming jail sentence. Who decided that these women’s tales were newsworthy? I hope that someday in the near future, the party girls that the tabloids love and the…
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