I’m watching the episode where Andrew gets axed right now, and the look of sadness/longing in Spike’s eyes! It’s begging to be recut into a timeless love story of epic weirdo male proportions! (With hats! Can you imagine the wardrobe?)
Whether it’s Spike or Lisa who goes tonight (because it can’t be Blais or Stephanie, and [...]

Word just in from Disney:
The date and location for the west coast open casting call for the new reality series, Disney’s “High School Musical: Summer Session,” will be Sunday, April 27 at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California. The east coast open casting call will be held, as previously announced, on Wednesday, May [...]

District investigation of Long Beach Animal Shelter leads to a resignation, a suspension and City Hall’s promise of a massive clean-up

PHOTO by JEFF GOULD
Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown came to the Long Beach Animal Shelter last week to tape an episode of a lighthearted TV contest called The Singing Office—at about the same time City Manager [...]

Yalta 08.

Hard not to feel a bit bummed over the departure of Jack (above) on last night’s ep of Project Runway. Dude was pretty, seemed very genuine and has a lot of talent, and even if his face morphed into something looking like a mask—well, hey, we’ve all been there. Any sort of zit/sore/staph whatever in [...]

The season-ending episode of Kitchen Nightmares was just like the rest of them: Gordon Ramsay jets over, rolls in or gets dropped off at some floundering restaurant, eats bland, boring, awful food, cleans the place up, whips it into shape then disappears.
Formulaic, sure, but that’s not to say the show is never entertaining. This time [...]

There are only two more episodes left in this season of Biggest Loser, and I’m pulling for Hollie—but she probably won’t win. I’m thinking Bill is going to rebound and take it. Still, something to keep in mind: as we learned last night, a good portion of the members of the Biggest Loser Hall of [...]

It’s long been a well-documented fact (thanks, Daniel de Boom!) that CSI: Miami films in Long Beach. I, however, had never actually been privy to an episode featuring our fair city in the background—until last night. There I am, a bit tipsy from champagne (had to buy some for champagne cous-cous . . . didn’t [...]

Classic crime show Big Sleeps out of syndication
By Chris Ziegler

Who killed Jim Rockford? Bad guys in suits were business as usual for television’s best detective but last month they got him for good—as of March 31, Universal Pictures refused all renewals for the syndicated ’70s series, effectively wiping The Rockford Files off the air. KDOC [...]