LB: What’s Up With HOMELAND?

…By which I mean I’ve spent almost a year arguing about the show with my associates here at TVWriter™ . They love it. I, well let’s just say I haven’t watched it all that much because when I did all I felt was disdain. Specifically, disdain for characters the show kept telling me where brilliant at their jobs but who, when I saw them, performed those jobs like inept, untrained idiots.

I would’ve fired everybody: Carrie, Saul, Brody. And, of course, the writers who revealed their immense ignorance of the not just how intelligence organizations like the CIA run, but of how the wheels of real life spin around. read article

LB: Why I’ve Been Crushing on Stevie Nicks for Lo! These Many Years

Nope, sorry, it’s neither her singing nor her songwriting nor her dancing. It’s something far more meaningful than all that. It’s thing like this comment about Nicki Minaj on The Daily.Com:

How dare this little girl! … If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there….I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it.

Woman’s still got um/er, you know: Balls.

For Whovians Only

The most important thing you’ll read today:

Hands On With The Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote [Review]- by SEAN FALLON

Specifications: read article

What Have We Learned from the 1st Week of the 2012 Season?

Some interesting bits, actually:

After One Week, Which TV Shows Look Good and Which Seem Doomed? – by Josef Adalian read article

How “High Concept” Does Your Concept Have to Be?

No point in guessing. Just compare it to the premises for the shows below. Remember, regardless of what their ultimate fates may be, all these shows had premises that got them to the starting line…and scripts that took them beyond:

The Premise-O-Meter: Ranking the New TV Dramas – by Margaret Lyons (Vulture.Com)
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