What's Alan Watching? (Page 280)

End of The O.C.: Try the veal?

Press release excerpts from Fox: The sun will set for the last time on THE O.C. when the series ends its four-season run Thursday, Feb. 22 (9:00-10:00

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 3 Jan 2007

Like school on Saturday

Two new ABC sitcoms tonight, two different columns to deal with them. First is "Knights of Prosperity," where seeing the Mick-less second episode confirmed for me how important

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 3 Jan 2007

Not dirty enough

This morning's column reviews FX's "Dirt," which I did not like: We have such a dysfunctional relationship with our celebrities and the coverage of

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 2 Jan 2007

Welcome to the '07

Happy New Year, everybody! Couple of minor pieces of business before TV gets back to normal (relatively) starting tomorrow. First, David Mills -- who you might remember from his writing

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 1 Jan 2007

Best of the Best '06

Last column of the year, which means it's Top 10 time. As discussed last week, I decided to spread the wealth with two lists, one for returning shows,

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 29 Dec 2006

At the Movies: Children of Men

I know this is a TV blog most of the time, but I did say in my very first post that it would feature "occasional comments on the books

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 27 Dec 2006

Snobbery

A few weeks ago, I finally took the HDTV plunge and bought a lovely plasma set. The thing is beautiful to behold, but I've already become so hooked

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 26 Dec 2006

Holiday pick 'em

Happy holidays to all, regardless of denomination. Here's a very tough question to answer at this time of year: "Lazy Sunday" or "D*ck in

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 25 Dec 2006

The O.C.: If you're here for sex, there's, like, five guys ahead of you

Spoilers for "The O.C." coming up just as soon as I figure out whether Hercules could beat Seven of Nine in a fight... I'll be

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 22 Dec 2006

This blog entry brought to you by The Human Fund

The Festivus column is up. Many, many grievances get aired, though never as many as I want.

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 22 Dec 2006

The Office: The cutting room floor

Since it's a slow day with no new column and no TV from last night to comment on (thank God for "The O.C." tonight, or

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 21 Dec 2006

Help me write my column, part 793

Thanks for all the Festivus suggestions, folks. That story's going to run on Friday (though Festivus doesn't officially begin until Saturday). Now I'm moving

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 20 Dec 2006