0 comments by Steve Lepore on 11/24/2014
Yes, it’s time for another award show that (somewhat) relevant celebrities agreed to participate in! The American Music Awards — AKA another thing Dick Clark invented — were televised Sunday night (Nov. 23) on ABC. The AMAs always seem like the VMAs but just slightly aged up a little bit in case your parents showed up to […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 9/29/2014
As the 2014-15 TV season opens, we will be checking on the state of television comedy, old and new. Check out this space the day after most comedy premieres throughout September and October. Here’s the thing: If the creative team behind Family Guy was going to do a crossover with The Simpsons, they were going to do it, […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 9/23/2014
You may have heard via the internet — or half of the population, depending on your peer group — that Beyonce and Jay-Z were throwing a party on HBO Saturday, with the release of their Jonas Akerlund-directed concert film, On the Run. AP Party writers Steve Lepore and Samantha Murray… did not go to that party […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 9/17/2014
As the 2014-15 TV season opens, we will be checking on the state of television comedy, old and new. Check out this space the day after most comedy premieres throughout September and October. The seminal early episode of New Girl is “Wedding,” which sets up, for the most part, the basis of the friendship between Nick, Jess, Winston and […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 9/12/2014
Hey everybody, remember when U2 put out an album for free? It’s true! It happened, like, three days ago! The Irish rockers put out an album called Songs of Innocence that automatically went to every iTunes subscriber’s library, whether they wanted it or not. The reviews were… pretty much what every U2 album’s reviews have been since […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 8/25/2014
The MTV Video Music Awards are a unique phenomenon in the age of Twitter: It’s like having every celebrity scandal of the year happen all within the span of two hours, and also someone occasionally sings or something. AP Party columnists like myself and Samantha Murray unabashedly love this annual festival of complete nonsense and sometimes shockingly […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 7/1/2014
Netflix is usually the place where the bored and relaxed go to indulge in their usual comforts. A season of a TV show you liked five years ago here, a movie starring your favorite actor there. You don’t necessarily see people leave their typical likes and dislikes. Why not use Netflix to try and discover […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
My only regret is that I can’t do the “Troy and Abed on the internet!” joke since Donald Glover won’t be back. Community, which ran for five seasons and on borrowed time for seemingly all of them, has been renewed for one last season. (We think, though no one would say definitively in the reports […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 6/19/2014
The rise of AMC as one of cable’s powerhouse networks for prestige dramas is one of the much-beloved narratives of pop culture writers. But really, the whole thing can kind of be narrowed down to three things: The Walking Dead becoming a legitimate phenomenon, Breaking Bad building into a phenomenon for one season, and Mad Men not really being a ratings phenomenon, […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 6/17/2014
Netflix is usually the place where the bored and relaxed go to indulge in their usual comforts. A season of a TV show you liked five years ago here, a movie starring your favorite actor there. You don’t necessarily see people leave their typical likes and dislikes. Why not use Netflix to try and discover […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 6/4/2014
Netflix is usually the place where the bored and relaxed go to indulge in their usual comforts. A season of a TV show you liked five years ago here, a movie starring your favorite actor there. You don’t necessarily see people leave their typical likes and dislikes. Why not use Netflix to try and discover […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 6/2/2014
First thing’s first: Catfish is not the realest. I am fully aware of this, and do not care. I enjoy the show, despite all of the TV machinations that go into making it a compelling television show. For the past two-plus years, I have made Catfish my indulgence in schlock, and not for its realism. For one thing, I […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 5/22/2014
Netflix is usually the place where the bored and relaxed go to indulge in their usual comforts. A season of a TV show you liked five years ago here, a movie starring your favorite actor there. You don’t necessarily see people leave their typical likes and dislikes. Why not use Netflix to try and discover new movies […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 5/14/2014
ABC is in fourth place, but they’re not necessarily in dire straits. Modern Family, Dancing with the Stars, Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time and Castle are all fading, but still viable. Scandal is still the most talked about show on television. They even developed a little comedy hit in The Goldbergs that they’ll try to increase the profile of next year. Yes, ABC is […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 5/13/2014
So Fox kinda fell off of a cliff at some point within the last few seasons. American Idol, and Glee faded drastically, The X Factor never was, New Girl can’t hold its own and even The Simpsons and Family Guy have started to edge towards “is it really worth it?” territory. I don’t say any of this gleefully. In New Girl, Brooklyn Nine Nine and Bob’s Burgers, Fox broadcasts three of […]
