0 comments by Steve Lepore on 5/12/2014
Remember when NBC was a gong show? That was like, a year ago. The network was in last place, trying to fix itself, with tons of insiders wondering if it even could be fixed. This year, NBC will beat the other three major networks among Adults 18-49, the demographic most valued by advertisers. This is […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 5/7/2014
Here’s a ratings story no one’s really talking about: returning to the air after a nearly four-year hiatus and without its creator, The Boondocks has been a massive hit for Adult Swim in its fourth (and supposedly final) season. While the show has always been popular with a cult audience, the premiere hit 2.9 million viewers (with […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
The New York Mets have spent 50 years in the Big Apple, many of those being the butt of a joke. While we love the Amazins for their grand runs to World Series titles in 1969 and 1986, there are unfortunately many more bad years than good. The team has made the postseason seven times […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 3/19/2014
When you write about television, you tend to use super flowery language. It can become a little… not grating, but it kind of misses the point sometimes. When’s the last time you watched a show where all you could think was “Oh my god… awesome.” That show, for me, is Rick and Morty, which is close […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 3/14/2014
I totally forgot the Veronica Mars movie was coming out until about two days ago. I passed through a review and realized that in just 48 hours, it would be a real thing that I could consume in a movie theater or on my laptop. And I did, despite having not thought of it lately […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 2/12/2014
Jay Leno’s comedy legacy is almost entirely tarnished from his run on The Tonight Show. By now, every critic has danced and spit on the grave of his run on the NBC institution. Very few people will ever debate that Leno did much of anything other than continue to want that show for the sole […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 2/5/2014
Fox did a solid job of driving viewers to Brooklyn Nine-Nine and (especially) New Girl on Sunday following Super Bowl XLVIII. Twenty-six million watched Zooey Deschannel get weird with Prince (more than watched The Office, The Simpsons, Alias or The Practice), while a series-high 15 million stuck around to see Andy Samberg’s Golden Globe-winning new […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 1/21/2014
There are a lot of moments during Against Me!'s sixth album, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, where the music is so good that I reach a moment of euphoria. It's not really the typical "this is a great album" euphoria (though Transgender Dysphoria Blues is), it's more of a gratefulness. "I'm so pleased that this exists," is […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore on 1/7/2014
One of the late-to-the-game things I did in 2013 was get really into comedy podcasts. Obviously you know and try out stuff like Nerdist and WTF, which are easy listening, and as an avid fan of Community, I was pre-disposed early on to the weekly enabling festival that is Harmontown, and the TV show indoctrinated […]
