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November 29, 2012
TV Mailbag: The Mount Rushmore of Bad Characters on Good Shows, Stunt-Casting The Walking Dead, and the Mystery of Jon Hamm’s Emmy-less Existence

You sent in your questions to grantlandTVmailbag@gmail.com. And now Andy Greenwald will answer them. It’s TV mailbag time! Who’s your Mount Rushmore of bad characters from good shows? Current and past shows. — Shane M., Philadelphia I was so anxious about my very first mailbag question that I spent three days misreading it. I thought […]
September 21, 2012
NBC Comedy Recap: The Beginning of the End of Must See TV Thursdays

Every week in this space, Grantland’s Andy Greenwald will run down the happenings and mishappenings in NBC’s Thursday comedy night done mostly right. (Note: The order reflects newsworthiness, not quality. Although occasionally the two just might overlap.) When this column launched one year ago, the intent was both to celebrate and chronicle the ill health […]
September 20, 2012
Judging The X Factor: Britney’s Marilyn Monroe Birthday Song Moment, Positive Raps, and an Amazing Panda

For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. This is their story, and it does not end well.
September 30, 2011
Fall TV Cancellation Fantasy Scorecard: Playboy Club Disappoints, Free Agents Is Doomed

The early going of a baseball season is often slow: Teams need extra time to gel, personalities need to mesh, and scoring is down. The inaugural Grantland Fall TV Cancellation League is no different: two weeks in and action, as well as the pickings, are slim. There is only one out-of-the-box breakout hit — Fox’s […]
June 20, 2011
What’s the Score?

The Fox Box and the demise of the most ubiquitous phrase in the English language.

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