Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'tnt'
July 28, 2008
What’s new and/or interesting in TV this week. Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever (Tue, 8PM-9PM, Discovery) It’s Shark Week on Discovery Channel, meaning that you can expect a lot of shows based upon people getting killed or nearly killed by Great White sharks. If this is your sort of thing, and you can only catch one show, this would have to be it. Remember in Jaws where the old sea captain tells the......
Continue Reading "TelePhillyist"December 10, 2007
What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Paranormal State (Mon, 10PM-11PM, A&E) - The debut of a new reality show featuring members of Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society investigating reports of paranormal phenomena. During this hour, they seem to be playing two episodes, one about a boy who can supposedly see dead people, and another about a supposedly haunted house where murders were committed. Independent Lens (Tue, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - It's another Penn......
Continue Reading "TelePhillyist"September 13, 2007
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Love Guitar Hero, but tired of your lame old guitar controller that's just like everybody else's? Well, if you feel like splurging, you can pick up a $399 limited edition AG Riff Master Guitar Controller for the PS2, which is an actual guitar that's been heavily modified to have the regular fret buttons and so forth. It also features KISS artwork on the......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"July 23, 2007
What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Mon, 10PM-10:30PM, Food Network) - This week, amongst other restaurants, this show visits the Bay Way Diner in Linden, NJ and tries their Philly cheesesteaks. Saving Grace (Mon, 10PM-11PM, TNT) - TNT has a new cop drama, and this one stars Holly Hunter as a hard-living Oklahoma City detective who, in this first episode alone, gets involved in a deadly drunken-driving accident, becomes......
Continue Reading "TelePhillyist"June 18, 2007
What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Simon Schama's The Power of Art (Mon, 9PM-10PM, PBS [WHYY, WLVT]) - The guy in the title is a Columbia University art history professor, and in this new show he takes a look at famous artists: their masterworks, and crucial moments in their lives. In the debut, he's talking about Van Gogh and his painting Wheatfield with Crows (pictured here). Heartland (Mon, 10PM-11PM, TNT) - Another medical......
Continue Reading "TelePhillyist"December 6, 2006
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. We feel very bad for the Wii-less among you, which is why we're happy to present to you two fun ways to win one of your own. Good luck! Speaking of the Wii...guess who had the best week ever?! That's right, biotches!! (Via) If you love your Wii so much that you just can't put your remote down, even when you......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"September 29, 2006
Nonprofit organization Campus Philly, in association with the city, IKEA, and plenty of other companies and organizations, is holding a huge free concert and festival Saturday afternoon to welcome and celebrate new and returning college students. It's called Campus Philly Kick-Off, and it will lead to un-fun things like road closings (the 2000 block of Winter Street will be closed during setup, and both directions of the inner drives of the Parkway, from 20th......
Continue Reading "Kicking It for the College Kids"