South of Nowhere's Ashley and Spencer
Michael Davis and Mark Nollinger, two dads who write and edit the family page for TV Guide, got to talking recently about the state of teen TV, the importation of Canadian angst, bikini shows and snow parkas.
Michael Davis: What do you think is the best show for teens on TV? My favorite, Everwood, got killed when WB merged with UPN to form CW. So CW is dead to me, even though it hasn't signed on yet.
Mark Nollinger: Yeah, it's too bad about Everwood. I think Smallville and Veronica Mars are pretty cool, too. But speaking as a parent, my favorite show — for older teens, anyway — isn't aimed at teens at all:
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Kathy Griffin
Guilty pleasures are those things that make you feel guilt and shame, and yet you can't stop yourself from indulging. But here's my problem: I don't have any pleasures that aren't guilty. I'd like to say I never miss a Frontline, or that I watch NewsHour with Jim Lehrer every single night, but the truth is I never miss Being Bobby Brown.
My guiltiest pleasure is probably Oprah, because she's gotten so high and mighty and has lost touch with regular people. You don't have to feel guilty on days when there's some wonderful woman on who's built a clinic in Africa and she's saving lives. But when Oprah's telling
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When Rescue Me's rookie firefighter (caught reading The Tao of Pooh) is told "a firehouse is no place for sensitive souls," it's hard to argue.
The sentiment just as easily applies to Rescue Me itself (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET), and to FX dramas in general. This is extreme TV — raw and brutally naked in its adult emotions, language, humor, sexuality and violent rage. It's also magnificently entertaining, if you have the spine for it.
The third season of firehouse drama Rescue Me upholds FX's bold tradition of living on the edge, juggling dark tragedy and raunchy comedy without seeming sentimental or exploitative.
Much credit goes to star and cocreator Denis Leary as Tommy Gavin, a self-destructive train wreck of an antihero. How much more will he be asked to suffer? Last season he lost his only son in a hit-and-run, and his uncle is in jail
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Elvis Presley, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America
What does Elvis Presley's 1956 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show have in common with the 1901 assassination of William McKinley? And the onset of the Pequot War of 1637, for that matter? They are three of the 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, as revisited in a History Channel series airing for five consecutive days starting Sunday at 9 pm/ET. (A detailed schedule appears at the bottom of this page.) To gain insight into this trip down memory lane, TVGuide.com spoke to acclaimed director Joe Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills), a coexecutive producer on the project who also helmed one of its installments.
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