How to Save Pushing Daisies

On Medialoper: How to Save Pushing Daisies

Here’s the idea: guest star Crispin Glover invents a Time Machine — disguised as an easter egg in an iPhone App called “Easter Egg” — that allows Emerson, Olive, Chuck and the Piemaker to go around in history and solve the mysterious or controversial deaths of famous people: JFK, Kurt Cobain, Howard Hughes, Harry Houdini.

Katherine Heigl Does Not Want What She Should Not Have Got

New on Medialoper: Katherine Heigl Does Not Want What She Should Not Have Got

This is a woman who is obviously now so full of herself that little bits of her ego drop on the sidewalk as she walks.

How ABC and Disney Spoiled "Wall-E" For The Entire World

New on Medialoper: How ABC and Disney Spoiled "Wall-E" For The Entire World

Is your life going so well that you get to hang out as a Celebrity at the 2008 NBA Finals? So now that we know that Wall-E ends up with a better life than all of the rest of us, why go see the movie?

Why ABC Should Give Up on "Life on Mars"

New Medialoper Post: Why ABC Should Give Up on "Life on Mars"

One of the things that made the original series so interesting was how it was a meditation on how much the world changes in just our lifetime, and how we automatically assume that things now are how they’ve always been, even when we know that’s not possible.

In other words, it wasn’t just about “ha ha, stupid 1972 cops don’t know what DNA is.” It was much deeper than that: Sam Tyler had to learn all about a world that he assumed he knew from heart.

ABC Fights the FCC and Cultural Correctness

New post on Medialoper: ABC Fights the FCC and Cultural Correctness.

It gives a little love to ABC for appealing their recent fine and not giving into the Parents Television Council's campaign of Cultural Correctness.