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“The Office” on the decline of “The Office”

5 Hours A Day — “The Office” had been getting bad for a few years, but wow, have they given up since Michael Scott left. The show itself seems to comment on its obsolescence regularly this season, so...

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Roger & Roger

5 Hours A Day — Hedonistic, witty, and named Roger: Roger Smith from “American Dad!” and Roger Sterling from “Mad Men” have exactly 3 things in common. Let’s not get carried away here. But, they do...

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Our 100th episode!

5 Hours A Day — Wow, 100 posts already? It seems like only yesterday we were copying our first Simpsons jokes and trying to start Twitter wars with celebrities. It’s been over a year of blogging,...

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Jeopardy! field report

5 Hours A Day —Thar she blows Somehow, even though it happened weeks ago, I was scooped on my story about the Jeopardy! taping I went to last month. Benjamin Freed at DCist has a writeup of his own...

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From the TV Catacombs: “Jim’ll Fix It”

5 Hours A Day —For the inaugural chapter of this new feature, we read about a “programme” that appears to be a British version of Fantasy Island or Queen for a Day. (Wait, was Queen for a Day British?...

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Veep’s intro is terrible

5 Hours A Day —If you haven’t already, get a load of the awful title sequence to Veep, the new HBO show: I don’t know which is more disgusting: the figurative vomit from whoever is responsible for...

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Flash-Matic remote inventor dies

5 Hours A Day — We were very sorry to hear about the passing of Eugene Polley, who invented the Flash-Matic (above) for Zenith brand TVs in 1955. It was the first version of the remote control. While I...

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Small Town Security: A real deal

5 Hours A Day —“Television’s a facade. You only see what you see.” — Judy O’Neal, public-access TV maven, Small Town Security Sunday was the Breaking Bad season premiere, followed by the series...

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Satellite Wars

5 Hours A Day — This was the week that we all learned about bundling — channel bundling, not the historic Pennsylvania Dutch courtship practice. It was also the week that a dispute with a single pay-TV...

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Bland Finale

5 Hours A Day —With this week’s overdue announcement that The Office will finally end, we find ourselves reflecting on the best way to end TV shows. Even the best of shows have trouble tackling the...

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