Welcome to another edition of Channel Chaser! Few characters in television have received more attention in recent years than one of the most iconic super-sleuths of all time: Sherlock Holmes. Following the wildly successful revival films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, a host of other shows have sprung up around Sherlock characters: most notably, the BBC’s Sherlock and [Read more…]
Welcome back to this week’s edition of Channel Chaser! So maybe it’s just me, but I think that so far I’ve been pretty charitable in my reviews of TV shows, and I’ve tried to point my readers toward shows I think they might enjoy. Well, it’s time to change that. This week, I’ll be talking about a program that you [Read more…]
Welcome to another edition of Channel Chaser! This week, I’d like to take a break from my regularly scheduled writing about fictional shows and bring you all some more current news from the land of television. As you may have guessed from the title, I’m talking about the two biggest faces in comedy today, and probably my personal favorites of [Read more…]
Welcome back to Channel Chaser! As you may have guessed from the title of this week’s column, I’ll be diving in the wild, wacky world of the BBC’s sci-fi fantasy epic, Doctor Who. It’s difficult to judge Doctor Who as a whole simply because every version of the title character is so fundamentally different; and to be clear, I’m just [Read more…]
Welcome back to another edition of Channel Chaser! This week I’m eager to discuss with you what has been on my mind–and I’m sure many other people’s minds–since Sunday; the season four premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Before I go any further, if you have not yet watched the episode, I would ask that you turn back now to [Read more…]
Welcome back to Channel Chaser! It seems like it’s all the rage these days to get your favorite TV shows from the Internet rather than having to go through all the effort of sitting down in front of the old tube at the same time every week; maybe it’s just the fact that mobile devices are huge now, or that [Read more…]
Welcome to another edition of Channel Chaser. When anyone talks about a new television show that pops up on the tube, the primary topic on everyone’s mind seems to be the originality factor; in other words, what is this show doing or saying through its plot, characters, setting, or other elements that has never been done before? The novelty and [Read more…]
Welcome to another edition of Channel Chaser! Today, I would like to take a trip back to 2008–and maybe even a little bit further–to discuss a lost gem of American popular culture; the short-lived but spectacular series Life on Mars. Life on Mars premiered on ABC in the fall of 2008 as yet another Americanized spin-off version of a foreign [Read more…]
For all my readers, welcome to the first edition of Channel Chaser! In this column, I’ll be discussing everything TV-related, from reviews and trends to discussion and analysis. First, a bit about myself: I am a senior journalism major at Ithaca College in New York, originally from Philadelphia, an aspiring writer, and an avid watcher of all things television. While [Read more…]