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Some people despise reality TV shows and can’t wait to point out to you how it’s brain numbing TV at its worst. Now I fall both sides of the fence on the argument, because I do think quite a lot of “reality” TV is about as real as a scripted soap, but I also believe ...
Television
Channel 4
Apparently Oprah has a bit of a huge announcement in the works and it’s not going to please fans of her long running talk show. The first lady of talk is allegedly calling it quits on completion of her 25th season. That means Oprah fans will be tuning in for the last time around ...
Television
Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show
You know how I was saying some reality shows are informative and some are insipid bowls of garbage (well that’s not exactly word for word, but close enough), well Beauty and the Geek is the latter as far as I’m concerned. That said this show has managed to garner a second season ...
Celebrities
Beauty and the Geek
Australia
I have no idea how this show has managed to squeeze out four seasons, but it has; someone has friends in high places. That said the ratings are still on the slippery slope with the series reaching an all new low of just over 5 million viewers, around a quarter of a million less than last ...
Television
Heroes
If you were a fan of Guiding Light and in particular a fan of the Otalia duo, this one is for you. The couple Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera Aitoro are soon to be featured in a web series called Venice. Yes they were that popular! The couple are played by Crystal Chappell, and Jessica ...
Television
Guiding Light
Heads Up
I know we usually cover TV shows in all their genres here at Snarkerati, but one area that we tend to overlook is the arena of TV news. This is odd given TV news is something all networks feature (in some form) and there are even entire networks dedicated to this particular TV genre, but is ...
Television
Writer, director, producer and cool looking dude Larry Charles seems to be working on something new for NBC. Possibly most famous for writing shows like Mad About You (loved that show!) and Seinfeld, Charles is now said to be working on a comedy series about scifi geeks.
In Charles’ ...
Television
Larry Charles
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
It’s caused more than its fair share of upset, Jennifer Morrison leaving House, walking out on her men in the show, never to be seen again. The blogging world went nutso and House fansites cried afoul that Morrison was an awesome character and how could the producers do this!
Well ...
Movies
Jennifer Morrison
Star Trek
Apparently anonymous blogger ‘Belle de Jour’ has outed herself after an ex threatened to do it for her. Now scientist Brooke Magnanti says it was she who penned the blog which led to numerous books and the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper.
Magnanti ...
Celebrities
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Billie Piper
It seems the Aussie public are relatively split in their feelings as to whether Rove’s announcement on Sunday night to quit his show was a good or bad thing. Rove McManus for those outside of Australia is essentially Australia’s Jay Leno, he is the face of weekly, late night talk ...
Celebrities
Australia
Jay Leno
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
AMC’s The Prisoner remake premiered over the weekend and the ratings came back not too bad for a miniseries premiere, with around a 2.2 million pickup. The show is a reworking of the original 1960’s TV series of the same name. Back in the day the series starred Patrick McGoohan, ...
Television
Patrick McGoohan
Don’t all groan at once. The Hills ’stars’ Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are apparently touting their own reality series around Hollywood. The pair allegedly want to show people more of their day to day lives and the things they do.
Personally I’d rather poke my ...
Television
The Hills
Spencer Pratt
Heidi Montag
Jon Gosselin
Excellent new ABC comedy Modern Family has managed to secure Minnie Driver for a guest stint on the show.
Driver will play a former co-worker of Claire in an upcoming episode which will air in the new year. Apparently they’ll bump into each other many years after they last saw each other ...
Celebrities
Modern Family
Minnie Driver
Young girls raised in the 70’s all either wanted to be one of Charlie’s Angels or knew someone who did. With stars who became iconic in their respective roles, Charlie’s Angels were independent, smart, adventurous and above all glamorous. Those who then went on to see the new Charlie’s ...
Celebrities
Charlie's Angels
Drew Barrymore
Lucy Liu
Cameron Diaz
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Lovely Charmed actress Alyssa Milano has signed up for a guest spot on ABC show Castle. Milano will play the ex of quirky Richard Castle in an episode due to air in early 2010. The title of the episode will be “A Rose for Everafter”, and no doubt Milano will play some kind of cutesy ex on ...
Television
Castle
Alyssa Milano
There have been rumors swirling for a few days now that TV show Flash Forward might be on its last legs.
The show which deals with an international blackout where people saw glimpses of their futures, could be doing with a little time traveling or fortune telling itself. The ratings have ...
Television
Flash Forward
FlashForward
This is truly devastating news. FOX has carried out what we all feared most and canceled the excellent Josh Whedon/Eliza Dushku vehicle, Dollhouse.
The show has been struggling since its beginning, with rewrites, episodes being moved around, a terrible time slot and very little backing ...
Celebrities
Dollhouse
Eliza Dushku
Joss Whedon
Ghost Whisperer
There has to be something worth getting excited about when the writer of the outstanding Buffy episode “Once More With Feeling” and Mad Men puts pen to paper for a Fright Night remake.
Marti Noxon will be reworking the hit cult horror movie Fright Night, which was a camp , amusing creepy ...
Television
Mad Men
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Great news for fans of the fifth cylon from Battlestar Galactica. Kate Vernon who played Ellen Tigh, will be joining the cast of Heroes, and no, it’s not just a rumor.
Greg Grunberg revealed the news that Kate would be taking up a role on the show via his Twitter account a few days ago. ...
Celebrities
Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
Greg Grunberg
Just quick note to our wonderful regulars (and those passing by!). You may have noted a distinct lack of TV news posts this last week… apologies! Unforeseen circumstances have meant no computer. On the upside this means I am making it my personal mission to bring you a massive dose of TV ...
