S omewhere along the way into the new millennium, cable television woke up in a nightmare realm. Censors at the major networks lurked along the shadowy periphery ready to cast an uncertain moral l  

Comedian Lewis Black has a very easy job these days. "Where do you want to start? I don't even have to write anything anymore," he says incredulously. "All you have to do is print the headline  

If you're one of the millions of Americans who can't get enough prime-time television programming about procedural justice, there are several permutations of the wildly successful Law & Order. I  

Think of Morgan Spurlock as the anti-Michael Moore. The friendly, handlebar mustachioed documentarian from West Virginia made waves in 2004 with an Oscar-nominated Super Size Me, which chronicled   

One of basic cable's top-rated crime-fighting programs doesn't feature police officers, judges or forensic scientists. In fact, it features three anthropomorphic fast-food products -- a giant mi  

You can read regularly in CityBeat about talented people involved in all sorts of artistic pursuits. Steve Booth is one of them: He's producing XLTV, a local late-night TV show that airs on Cinci  

Suddenly it's January, and there's not much to do. If you're in the grip of the post-holiday vacuum, perhaps a good DVD set will fill the void. There are quite a few channels showing old TV se  

Comic Mitch Hedburg has built a successful career primarily through relentless touring. He spoke to CityBeat from his home in Hollywood, Fla. CityBeat: How did you get into stand-up comedy? Mi  

Elder High class of '83 and Miami University class of '87, Bill Hemmer moved from reporting sports for WCPO-TV to the world and elsewhere. Recently, the co-host of CNN's American Morning phoned  

Wes Cowan owns and operates Cowan's Auctions Inc. in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Linwood. Viewers of the popular PBS series, Antiques Roadshow, recognize him as one of the program's appraiser  

Alan Colmes is the co-host of Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, host of his own radio program (heard on 60 stations) and the author of Red, White and Liberal. He recently spoke to CityBeat b  

The end of a beloved television series is always an event, even though ratings for such episodes have trailed off in the past 20 years. It's highly unlikely we'll ever see 50 million people watc  

"Comedy is not pretty," Steve Martin once said. It's not easy either. The challenges of succeeding on television in the science-fiction genre have been detailed in these pages (see Spaced Out,   

Successful science fiction is hard, especially on television. Two recent DVD releases from 20th Century Fox help define that. Lost in Space: The Complete First Season (on CBS, 1964-1965) and Firef  

North Americans are much more uptight about sexuality than, say, our friends in Europe. OK, the Brits might be as uptight, but we certainly have issues on this side of the pond. A few voices out t