November 29, 2012
Next month, Disney’s newest princess will make her TV debut. Sofia the First is a cartoon for children that will air on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior, according to the original announcement in The New York Times. Sofia, played by Modern Family‘s Ariel Winter, is a little girl who lucks into the princess gig [...]
The other day, I was talking to Kory Wood, the editorial page editor of The Signpost, about sports coverage in America, and I casually mentioned something that may seem weird to most sports fans: I hate ESPN. I haven’t always hated the “worldwide leader in sports.” For much of my life, I religiously watched SportsCenter [...]
Continue reading …Every time I glance at the TV or social media, I get a reminder that Season 3 of The Walking Dead premieres this Sunday. This has become an October tradition since its inception three years ago. ‘Tis the season for the moaners, slow walkers and brain-eaters that much of America has grown to love. Zombies [...]
Continue reading …TV is just amazing these days. Movies are more and more concerned with bigger budgets and making money, which means a lot of the art of filmmaking has moved to the small screen. And it shows in this year’s crop of Emmy nominations. Most of the major categories are flooded with big stars and don’t [...]
Continue reading …Bachelor Survival, Day 1: It’s 5 o’clock at night, and I just dropped my wife off at the airport. She’s going to a work conference in Dallas for the next four nights, which means I’m alone in the wild suburbs of Layton for five days. No one to help me with survival. Nobody to hear [...]
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A new class will be offered fall semester that takes a more modern approach to literature. Scott Rogers is reinventing the course English 3750: Television as Literature, where students will study the television show Firefly. “The point is to demonstrate that we can apply the skills of literary analysis to the analysis of some television [...]
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