Happy Holidays

I will be heading off to spend the holidays in a warmer clime that is not conducive to long stints on the Internet. You may see me on Twitter, but I feel that anything longer than 140 characters is just too much for me.
Thus, I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a glorious [...]

Top Time-Shifted Shows

Ad Age ran an interesting piece on time shifting of TV shows yesterday. They looked at the trends and what time shifting means for advertisers. But of the most interest to me was the list of the top time shifted shows:

House
Grey’s Anatomy
The Office
NCIS
The Mentalist
V
Deperate Housewives
The Big Bang [...]

Top 5 Posts

Here’s a collection of the top 5 posts of the year, based on traffic and return visits. (A caveat: By far, the most popular posts are the Supernatural blog carnivals, but they don’t have as much power when you re-read them, so they are not included here. If you want to read the old editions, [...]

Glee and HBO Are the Big Golden Globes Winners for Television

The Golden Globe nominations are out, and boy do those Hollywood Foreign Press folks love their musicals. Glee leads the television show nominations with 4, and Nine came in second for film nominations with 5.
HBO leads the network pack with 17 nominations, including best show nods for True Blood and Big Love. Now I love [...]

The New Year of TV

I am looking forward to January as if it were the beginning of the new fall season.
I can’t wait to see how they explain the Kate/Peter relationship on White Collar. I am looking forward to seeing all of the loose ends get tied up on Lost. And our Winchesters will be back!
But, by far the [...]

Weird Pop Culture Crap

Perhaps I’m tired, but today seems to be filled with inexplicable pop culture stories.
Jessica Simpson and Billy Corgan
The rumor is that J. Simps and the rat in a cage are getting quite cozy. What sort of weird-ass match up is that? How would they have met? What would they possibly talk about?
Miley Cyrus is Covering [...]

The End of the Daytime Drama?

With the recent news that CBS is canceling As the World Turns, it makes me wonder if the daytime drama will soon go the way of the dinosaur.
My mom watches her stories every day. In fact, one of my earliest memories was of mom feeding me in my high chair while the opening of Days [...]

There’s One Less Pop Culture Dog in Our Household

The Pop Culture Curmudgeon household experienced a loss over the weekend. Our miniature dachshund, Heidi, succumbed to the treatment for Cushing’s Disease. If you have an older dog who shows any symptoms of Cushing’s, please get them tested. Early detection offers more treatment options and a stronger dog to undergo treatment.
Some of the symptoms include [...]

New Michael Jackson Cologne: A Disgusting Way to Capitalize on His Death

So, when you heard that Michael Jackson had died, was your first thought something about how you could make money off his fanbase without having to share any of it with him? If you are John Reznikoff and the folks at My DNA Fragrance, it may have been.
They have partnered to create a fragrance based [...]