All right, I’ve finally decided after two abortive attempts to squeeze a show into my impossible schedule that this week, there will be no Boxoffice Weekly podcast. Next week will be better. Apologies to our fans all over the globe, and any intergalactic fans.
Generally, American scripted television series follow a familiar cadence of life phases, showing stages of youth, maturity and senescence in the same manner as the humans who created the shows do.
Pilot Era – That crucial first season. This is the stage where a show has to prove its Darwinian fitness. Fresh, full of ideas, often [...]
We’re all excited here at Box Office Weekly over the propinquity (look it up!) of Sonoma’s Annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest. It’s a kind of evil twin to the Westminster Dog show, in which dogs are judged solely on their disturbing countenances. No prancing, no heeling, just “OMFG, what the hell IS that?!” It’s a little more [...]
I watched exactly twelve minutes of the very end of this season of “American Idol.”
I am not really going to go out of my way to say anything too bad about the show. I have to respect what “American Idol” does: connects well with it’s audience, makes ordinary people feel special and gives these ordinary, [...]
This Daily Variety review caught my eye - they’re at Cannes looking at the movies in competition.
No doubt it will be back to the drawings board for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s intricately ambitious, defiantly nondramatic four-hour, 18-minute presentation of scenes from the life of revolutionary icon Che Guevara.
Here’s my thinking - if I were writing a [...]
Box Office Weekly #116 (MP3 - 14 MB - 21 min)
In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: David Bowie struggles to retrieve one of his personas… the theatre chain I used to work for invests in a cool new technology… and in this week’s commentary I note the sad, sad sweeps [...]
It seems like just two years ago I wrote a commentary explaining what sweeps is; and now here we are and sweeps is virtually indistinguishable from regular televsion.
In the old days (two years ago) when November or February or May came around, TV would get cheap and exciting like Paris Hilton before the launch of [...]
Box Office Weekly #114 (MP3 - 14 MB - 21 min)
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In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: Mike Meyers gets poked in the third eye… further proof that vampires and series television don’t mix.. and in this week’s commentary I lament the sparse time I have to produce commentaries. All [...]
Usually by now I’d have written a commentary for this week’s show. But it’s been one hell of a busy week.
Here’s the deal, Box Office Weekly Fans: your host has leant his awesome talents to too many areas lately. The chief time drain is the Stage Door Theatre in Agoura, a little equity-waiver house in [...]
The odyssey that is “Arrangements” sort of met it’s logical conclusion. It was programmed into a screening block called “Homegrown,” a showcase for Santa Cruz filmmakers. It took place in the afternoon, between a women-themed program and one on African hip-hop. The screening venue was the Regal Cinemas Riverfront Theatre, a big ol’ twin-plex [...]
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