February 2012

AFT #26: Community, The Simpsons, Why we stick with comedies, and more

by Joel Keller February 24, 2012 Podcasts

We were sort of feeling our way through a week that was relatively light news-wise, but there were a few topics that held our interest: Community’s back, back on Thursday nights. We talk about why that’s a good thing for the show and NBC, We also talk about why we stick with comedies, even though [...]

Read more →

AFT #25: Whitney Houston, Grammys, Linsanity, Walking Dead, Late Night Interviews and more

by Joel Keller February 16, 2012 Podcasts

It was an interesting week in TV, mostly having to do with things that aren’t TV related. Jason and Joel talk about how TV viewers experienced these events, and other, more mundane TV news: We talk about how the coverage of Whitney Houston’s death feels weirdly backwards to us (praiseworthy then questioning instead of the [...]

Read more →

AFT #24: Super Bowl, Madonna, The Voice, Smash, The River, Key & Peele and More

by Joel Keller February 9, 2012 Podcasts

At least one of us was very happy with the result of the Super Bowl (one of us really didn’t care), and most of our conversation revolves around the game broadcast and its repercussions: We start by talking about the game and the broadcast, loving the fact that NBC played it fairly straightforward, Then we [...]

Read more →

AFT #23: Super Bowl Ads, X Factor Shakeup, Smash, The Office and more

by Joel Keller February 3, 2012 Podcasts

We’ve already slipped up on our schedule, thanks to Joel’s deadlines and Jason’s sleepiness. But we’re back, just under the wire to talk about one of the biggest TV events of the year… plus the Giants-Patriots game that will wrap around it: First, though, we talk a little about the goings on during pilot season, [...]

Read more →