“Falling Skies” beats “The Walking Dead” to win Spookiest Series in Channel Guide’s Viewers Voice Awards

National Geographic Channel Takes An In-Depth Look At The Era That Brought Us Televised Warfare, The World Wide Web, Vanilla Ice And Springer. If the 1980s were America’s technicolor candy land, filled with shoulder pads and parachute pants, MTV and the Brat Pack, the 90s was the decade that grew us up a little and connected us a lot, in ways that both thrilled and horrified us. With television cameras in places they’d never gone before — courtrooms, war zones, emerging crime scenes — the line between news and entertainment blurred and then nearly disappeared, while, in the White House, […]

On May 31, Hallmark Movie Channel presents The Color of Rain, inspired by the true story of Gina Kell and Michael Spehn and their New York Times bestselling memoir. On Christmas Day 2005, 35-year-old Matt Kell lost his three-year battle with a rare form of cancer, leaving behind his wife Gina and their two small sons. Just six weeks later, a fast-growing brain tumor claimed Matt’s childhood friend and neighbor Cathy Spehn, making a widower of her stunned husband Michael, who was left to raise their own three young children alone. United by grief, faith and the determination to help […]

“IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T WATCH IT!” the Internet commenters scream via their keyboards. If only it were that simple. Someone pays me money to watch and write about terrible TV shows. What’s your excuse? Not that long ago, if a TV show was bad, people didn’t watch it and the show went away. But in today’s media culture, a bad TV show can thrive so long as it is bad enough that it becomes awesome in its badness. Thus is born the concept of “hate-watching.” Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich defines hate-watching as “the practice of watching a TV […]