One Utah

This is another one of these stories that mysteriously do not appear on the front page, or any page, of the newspaper. I even made a comment on Salt Lake Tribune TV critic Vince Horiuchi’s blog. Nothing. The only place this was reported: a one-sentence notice on my monthly cable bill that [...]

Anybody who is over a hundred years old, and as bewildered as I am about why a cover for “The New Yorker” has caused a controversy among Barack Obama supporters and even evades a decent comment from Obama himself, might get a kick out of this post. This cover, which portrays Obama dressed in Muslim [...]

I spent five minutes surveying the FISA/Obama wreckage over at Daily Kos and knew I had to write up some good news. Get ready to be entertained, starting tomorrow night.
Spies don’t get fired. They get burned. Why was Michael Westen burned? And what’s he gonna do about it? Imagine “Rockford Files” [...]

If you know the series “Battlestar Galactica”, you know about the Battlestar Pegasus and Rear Admiral Helena Cain (Michelle Forbes). The new TV movie “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” tells their story (available now on DVD). Series creator Ron Moore is among the best in the business, and he makes great TV.
Pegasus was [...]

Forget those unintentionally funny spy shows like “24″ and “The Unit” and watch USA Network’s witty and clever comedy-drama “Burn Notice” on Thursday nights at 11 pm.
Jeffrey Donovan stars as Michael Westen, an international spy who suddenly finds himself blacklisted. Dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, Michael struggles to put his [...]

For this post only, I’m going to take the liberty of digressing from real-world to fictional fiasco. Though it has received little attention compared to the right-wing fantasy “24,” there is one show on TV that tries to take a semi-realistic look at what might happen to us if Dick Cheney’s nightmare comes true [...]