Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair. — Tom Shales Hair Copy Share Image
Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave. — Tom Shales Across Copy Share Image
In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been… — Tom Shales After Copy Share Image
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television. — Tom Shales Benign Copy Share Image
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination.… — Tom Shales Admired Copy Share Image
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate… — Tom Shales American idol Copy Share Image
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the… — Tom Shales Best Copy Share Image
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety… — Tom Shales Brief Copy Share Image
For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're… — Tom Shales Craig Copy Share Image
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a… — Tom Shales Ads Copy Share Image
'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's… — Tom Shales Age Copy Share Image
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no… — Tom Shales About Copy Share Image
Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to… — Tom Shales Awful Copy Share Image
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too. — Tom Shales Audience Copy Share Image
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find… — Tom Shales Ability Copy Share Image
“Keith Richards I remember. There was a horse backstage that week, and I was in my dressing area and I saw Keith… — Tom Shales Keith richards Copy Share Image
“Chris Rock, Cast Member: How can anyone hate the guy? A lot of people have problems with Lorne. A lot of people… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently… — Tom Shales Age Copy Share Image
Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He… — Tom Shales Armor Copy Share Image
Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different… — Tom Shales Aisle Copy Share Image
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials… — Tom Shales Been Copy Share Image
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults… — Tom Shales Adult Copy Share Image
'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won… — Tom Shales Ball Copy Share Image
Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering… — Tom Shales Beaver Copy Share Image
The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them. — Tom Shales Astronomy Copy Share Image
