Often when comparing two products side-by-side, the breakdown can sometimes appear with a David versus Goliath motif. Well, not this time. Comcast is one of the largest communications conglomerates in the world. It is a company that not only has exclusive rights agreements to broadcast the games of several professional sports franchises all over the ...
During the 1990s, PBS children’s programming began to change. As the decade moved on, the proliferation of more all-cartoon educational programs like Dragontales and The Magic School Bus began to surface. However, a number of mostly or all-“live” programs debuted during the 1990s. In this final installment of Classic PBS Children’s Television, we will look ...
The human race loves to partake in grand debates. My team versus your team; Godfather I versus Godfather II; New York pizza versus Chicago pizza. However, in our time, perhaps the greatest debate of all is which animated, prime time comedy show reigns supreme. Family Guy, led by the imposing trio of Peter Griffin, Stewie ...
The Boondocks by definition is a rural undeveloped area, wild dense brush or jungle. The writer of the comic strip series “The Boondocks”, Aaron McGruder must have a sense of humor and a love for playing on words. The series takes place in the suburbs of America where two young African American kids Huey and ...
Commercials exist on just about every television channel and network out there. All of them are designed to get watchers to buy something or tune into something. Of course, not all of the commercials out there are beneficial in any way. In fact, some of them are flat out scams. It’s pretty simple to figure ...
So you’re watching a classic music video from the good old days of MTV and VH1, and you become curious as to the story behind the video, the song, and the artist who made it a hit. Suddenly, information pops up on the screen to give you the information that you seek, and then some. ...
The one mainstay of late-night TV that’s never changed is one host summarizing the day’s events in a 10-minute uproarious or deliberately bad monologue. Yet as much as the late-night monologue should have evolved beyond the sharp astuteness of Johnny Carson, it’s ultimately devolved. The only true master is David Letterman who manages to garner ...
Moms and dads on the run know just how annoying it is to look forward to a show only to be so caught up in changing diapers, burping babies and more that we forget all about what we wanted to see. Enter the tape-less recorder. Some know it as TIVO and others know it as ...
With the news that AMC’s The Walking Dead pulled in over 12 million viewers on the 2013 mid-season premiere, a question has to be asked. Is The Walking Dead the most popular show on television? While 12 million viewers is certainly a record for the show, AMC and all of cable television and there are ...
SPOILER ALERT: For those who haven’t watched this episode, this is a spoiler alert on part of the show. In this week’s episode of “NCIS – Enemy on the Hill,” Abby finds she has a long lost brother. She didn’t know her parents had another child. She found out when she went to a meeting ...