Television review
NBC’s ‘Smash’ is a guilty pleasure. VERY guilty.
Smash. 10-11 p.m. Monday. WTVJ-NBC 6.
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I almost smiled during that Super Bowl ad where the dog goes on a diet so he can slip out his pet door and chase a Volkswagen. Almost. And if I hadnt already seen it 30 times on the Internet...
Smash. 10-11 p.m. Monday. WTVJ-NBC 6.
Special-interest-group spending on TV ads has skyrocketed in the first presidential race since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a ban on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, a study released Monday says.
A corporate spat over money that kept WSVN-Fox 7 off DirecTV’s satellite dishes for nearly two weeks ended Thursday when the two sides signed a deal on retransmission fees.
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, who made his mark with a wild rant against — well — everything, is doing his show from Miami Beach. Keep your head down.
As TV executives gather on Miami Beach for their annual convention, no one knows where their industry is going.
Television viewers, who’ve mostly been collateral damage in the contractual crossfire between WSVN-Fox 7 and DirecTV over the past week, caught a break Thursday when WSVN announced it will lift its blackout of DirecTV satellite dishes Sunday night to air an NFL playoff game and American Idol special.
An appellate court tossed a jury award of nearly $1 million to former WSVN-Fox 7 reporter Marilyn Mitzel.
The scorched-earth financial battle between WSVN-Fox 7 and DirecTV continued Wednesday, with WSVN blacked out for a fifth straight day on the satellite company’s dish-shaped antennas, and no cease-fire in sight.
Napoleon Dynamite. 8:30-9 p.m. Sunday. WSVN-Fox 7.Alcatraz. 8-10 p.m. Monday. WSVN-Fox 7.
A quarter of a million South Florida homes lost access to WSVN-Fox 7 Saturday when the station yanked its signal from DirecTV’s satellite service in a dispute over retransmission fees that’s getting uglier by the minute.
'Rob.' 8:30-9 p.m. Thursday. WFOR-CBS 4. 'The Finder.' 9-10 p.m. Thursday. WSVN-Fox 7.
Ten years and one day ago, my byline ran for the first time on a Miami Herald column about television. I didn’t see it. I was aboard an airliner flying to Los Angeles, where TV critics from all over the country were gathering to get a look at the spring season shows. When I got off the plane, I discovered that slumping ABC had fired all of its top programming executives.
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones. 9-11 p.m. Sunday. A&E.
So there you are, creeping along the Palmetto, enduring the contemptuous stares of insects flying by at 10 times your velocity and wondering about your chances of being struck by lightning and turned into The Flash.
I Hate My Teenage Daughter. 9:20-10 p.m. Wednesday. WSVN-Fox 7.
JFK: The Lost Bullet. 10-11 p.m. Sunday. National Geographic Channel.
When Howard Gordon takes the stage at the Alper Jewish Community Center Thursday night, he will show a clip of his new TV show Homeland, about an Al Qaida mole planning a murderous attack on Washington. Hell probably get some questions about his last show, 24, about a counterterrorist super-hero who saved the world 192 times in eight years. And of course hes appearing at the Jewish Book Festival, so hell want to talk for a while about his last novel ( Gideons War, about a terrorist attack on an offshore oil rig) or his next one ( Hard Target, about a terrorist campaign by a home-grown American militia).
Vietnam in HD. 9-11 p.m. Tuesday. History Channel.
Hell on Wheels. 10-11 p.m. Sunday. AMC.