January 2013

AFT #71: 30 Rock, Girls, Super Bowl, Shows about shows, Glee rips off Jonathan Coulton, HIMYM, and more

by Joel Keller January 31, 2013 Podcasts

The Super Bowl will be the biggest TV event of the week, and we talk about it at the top of the podcast, along with the other TV doings: We talked about how we don’t want to see the ads before the game, why it seems the game is an attraction to non-fans, the prospects [...]

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AFT #70: Fringe finale, Parenthood, The Following, how Netflix will ruin TV recapping, and more

by Joel Keller January 24, 2013 Podcasts

It’s friggin’ cold outside, and we start the podcast by talking about the standard stories about the cold on the local and national news. Then we get into the events of the week: We talked about the coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration, how it seemed to be more extensive than coverage than any other [...]

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AFT #69: Golden Globes, Girls, HIMYM, Idol and X Factor, how networks need to step things up and more

by Joel Keller January 17, 2013 Podcasts

The Golden Globes dominated our conversation this week, mainly because the ceremony had so many fun moments and the awards themselves were the usual level of odd: We talked about the Golden Globes show, how Fey and Poehler killed it, why they needed to be there more in the second half, Jodie Foster’s insane speech [...]

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AFT #68: More Arrested Development, TCA goings-on, The Following, the violence strawman, Jimmy Kimmel and more

by Joel Keller January 10, 2013 Podcasts

As shows come back from the holiday break, other shows have their season premieres and series premieres… but most of them bow next week. So this week, we get to riff on some interesting topics: We talked about the Winter TCA tour, which is going on as we speak in Pasadena. As usual, we talk [...]

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AFT #67: Arrested Development, New Year’s on TV, Critics’ Polls, Winter preview and more

by Joel Keller January 3, 2013 Podcasts

Happy 2013! We recorded the podcast on Jan. 2 because we just couldn’t wait to yap about… well…. Let’s say this was a very esoteric podcast: We talked about the the New Year’s Eve shows — no Dick Clark, Kathy Griffin “going down” on Anderson Cooper, etc. — and about what we miss now that [...]

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