Network Television on Townhall

• Zombies vs. Jesus Sat Apr 6
  Bill O'Reilly
  On Easter Sunday evening, a TV show about good and evil aired on the History Channel -- the final installment of "The Bible" miniseries in which Jesus is executed. AMC ran the season-ending episode of "The Walking Dead" -- the series where zombies try to eat the brains of human beings. ... more
• Bad News About Childhood TV Watching and Adult Criminality Tue Feb 19
  Michael Brown
  According to a major study carried out by a New Zealand university over a period of more than 20 years, “Children who watch excessive amounts of television are more likely to have criminal convictions and show aggressive personality traits as adults.” Is that really a surprise? ... more
• Privileges and Responsibilities Tue Sep 4
  Cal Thomas
  My first political convention was in 1964 when Democrats convened in Atlantic City to nominate Lyndon Johnson for a full term as president. I was a young copyboy at the NBC News network bureau in Washington. We arrived from Washington aboard a chartered DC-3 plane that also carried the late anchor/reporter Frank McGee and his wife. ... more
• Comedy is king again on network television Mon May 21
  AP News
• NBC Revives Howard Stern Fri May 18
  Brent Bozell
  Howard Stern has not been missed since he took his smutty shtick off the airwaves and onto the unregulated Sirius satellite radio. His super fans -- the brainiacs still playing their VHS tapes of a Stern show called "Butt Bongo Fiesta" -- have made the satellite radio chiefs happy, but Stern has almost vanished as an icon of pop culture. He even scaled back his radio schedule to three days a week, semi-retiring. ... more
• Glee Celebrates the 'T' Fri Apr 27
  Brent Bozell
  It was a very special disco-themed episode of "Glee" on Fox the other night. A new character named Wade from a different high school shared that he was born in the wrong body. ... more
• Lifetime's Perky Prostitute Fri Apr 20
  Brent Bozell
  Ten years ago, perky actress Jennifer Love Hewitt tried to jump-start a music career with a song titled "Bare Naked." Now she's trying that attention-grabbing tactic again with a sleazy new Lifetime series called "The Client List." She plays a massage therapist who turns tricks. ... more
• Dick Clark Remembered Fri Apr 20
  Cal Thomas
  Dick Clark, who died Wednesday at 82, was called "America's oldest teenager." That's not only because he looked so good late into life, but also because he carried with him the teen memories of those of us who grew up watching "American Bandstand" on glorious black-and-white, small-screen television sets. ... more
• First World Problems Tue Mar 20
  Rachel Marsden
  After being bombarded with news of Third World problems for so long, I figured it was time to give a bit of equal time to First World suffering. ... more
• Hollywood's Snotty Day in Court Fri Jan 13
  Brent Bozell
  It was symbolically perfect that on the same day Hollywood went to the Supreme Court to make the case for broadcast profanity, Entertainment Weekly reported that the next showing of the ABC smutcom "Modern Family" would feature a two-year-old girl dropping the F-bomb. The episode's title will be "Little Bo Bleep." ... more
• Hollywood's Soda-Pop Statism Fri Dec 2
  Brent Bozell
  The Hollywood elite's concern for the children stops at the water's edge of physical fitness. They simply do not (SET ITAL) touch (END ITAL) the subject of moral fitness. On The Huffington Post, former entertainment executive Laurie David offered this pre-holiday piece of encouragement: "Thanksgiving Conversation Starter: Is It Time to Ban Soda Ads on Prime Time Television?" ... more
• (Almost) Nothing Is Sacred Fri Nov 18
  Brent Bozell
  In advance of Tinseltown's parade of Christmas insensitivities -- they've already unloaded the marijuana movie "A Very Harold and Kumar 3-D Christmas" -- let us stipulate that it's not just seasonal. The manufacturers of pop culture thrive on offending every traditional value. ... more
• No 'Glee' About Virginity Fri Nov 11
  Brent Bozell
  In Hollywood, the only truly serious sexual disease is virginity. It's a dire and embarrassing condition, desperately in need of elimination. Teenagers that still have "it" are woefully immature. They might as well consider themselves to be walking the school hallways in diapers. ... more
• GLEE's Gay Garden Goes Too Far Sun Nov 6
  Kevin McCullough
  This week's episode is dangerous for family viewing for several reasons, the most significant being that regardless of orientation the episode will justify unsafe sex between high-school children too young to understand the responsibility. ... more
• 'Reality Shows' Distort the Real World Fri Oct 21
  Brent Bozell
  Networks hungry for viewers know the cheapest way to nab eyeballs is to produce a "reality show" with no stars and often uber-sleazy, supposedly-unscripted-but-in-reality-very-scripted content. But in the rush for the prized 18-49 adult viewers, what about the millions of youngsters, the audience aged 11 to 17, who are also lured into the soup? ... more
• Police using warrant to search home of missing Missouri baby Wed Oct 19
  Reuters News
• Pageants and Prosti-Tots Fri Sep 16
  Brent Bozell
  People who love reality television often have a special attraction to "train wreck" shows. For two years now, the tasteless titans of the cable channel TLC have been exploiting the spectacle of hyper-ambitious stage mothers parading around "beauty queens" just barely out of diapers in thousand-dollar gowns. The program is titled "Toddlers and Tiaras."? ... more
• Role Model Opposites: Snooki and Kirk Cousins Wed Aug 10
  Marybeth Hicks
  Among last week’s troubling headlines: ” ‘Jersey Shore’ scores most-watched season premiere ever: Opener drew 8.8 million total viewers.” ... more
• Townhall Exclusive: Major Network Exec Admits TV Programming Slants Left Tue May 31
  Guy Benson
• Institutional Collapse and Flight From the Printed Word Thu Apr 21
  Ross Mackenzie
  What are some principal developments and changes witnessed during a 30-year career in syndication -- indeed, a 46-year career in the newspaper business? ... more
• Why Spanking the Intolerant Left is Right Sun Mar 13
  Kevin McCullough
  The majority of things on network television appear there by design. And since it is the American left that controls most of the agenda coming out of popular culture and hence television programming, you have to ask yourself, "Who are they hoping to convince?" ... more
• Desperate Libs Ratchet Up Extremist Label Tue Nov 30
  David Limbaugh
  With the advent of the tea party movement and President Obama's recent "shellacking," the left's long-established effort to marginalize mainstream conservative Americans as fringe extremists has reached a new stage of desperation. ... more

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