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June 2015

June 10, 2015

TV Goes Trans

Many minority groups complain -- and often rightfully so -- that they are underrepresented on...

June 09, 2015

ABC Pulls Biblical Drama ‘Of Kings and Prophets’ From Fall Schedule

As far as we know, the anti-Catholic sitcom "The Real O'Neals" is still in ABC's...

June 05, 2015

Voting for TV Awards: An Exercise in Managing Disappointment

For the record, I have belonged to the Television Critics Association for almost two decades....

May 2015

May 23, 2015

The Duggars and the High Price of Reality

Why do TV reality-show families tend to have problems? First, they're families. Families have problems....

May 21, 2015

Twin Friars Do TV in Search of ‘Icons’

I've been talking a lot in this blog about how Catholics should seize the opportunity...

May 13, 2015

The Sky’s the Limit for the Creative Potential of Video

With the announcement of shows like ABC's midseason comedy "The Real O'Neals," which uses a stereotyped...

May 05, 2015

Laverne Cox, Bruce Jenner and a New Evangelization

Whatever you think of the physical and psychological realities of transgenderism, there's a concerted push...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Now You Get to Vote on ‘Little Boy’

Mainstream-media movie reviewers don't think much of "Little Boy," from executive producers Mark Burnett, Roma...

April 22, 2015

Who Dies on TV, and Why?

The debate over how TV does or doesn't reflect reality will never end, mostly because...

April 11, 2015

‘Texas Rising’ on the French Riviera …

From my other home over at the venerable entertainment-industry trade publication Variety ... It’s a...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

‘Lost’ No More: Writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach Explains It All to You

Early on in the life of Pax Culturati, I published a compilation of tweets from writer

March 25, 2015

‘House of Cards’: Spitting on Christ; Spitting on Hollywood

Recently, I was talking to Father David Guffey of Family Theater Productions in Hollywood, an...

March 23, 2015

RIP John Litvack: The WB Exec Behind ‘Buffy’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek’

It could be said that behind every great showrunner is a great executive -- or...

March 09, 2015

Why ‘Elementary’ Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe Won’t Read Your Script

It doesn't take the mind of Sherlock Holmes to figure out why an established writer...

March 03, 2015

@MysteryExec Tells You How to Survive Hollywood Success

As faithful Catholics, we'd like to think that if we had success in Hollywood, we'd...

March 03, 2015

‘Jane the Virgin’ Candles: Cute Tchotchkes or Sacrilege?

Celebrity prayer candles are a thing. Earlier today, Patheos' own Deacon Greg Kandra posted a...

February 2015

February 08, 2015

Showbiz 101: Not-quite 62 Rules for Negotiating Hollywood (Part 2)

On Friday, Feb. 6, entertainment lawyer Peter Kaufman, from his @Dealfatigue Twitter account, sent out 61 tweets...

February 08, 2015

Showbiz 101: Not-quite 62 Rules for Negotiating Hollywood (Part 1)

On Friday, Feb. 6, entertainment lawyer Peter Kaufman, from his @Dealfatigue Twitter account, sent out...

February 07, 2015

Showbiz 101: A TV Showrunner Explains How to Be a Staff Writer

On Jan. 30, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a veteran TV writer and producer, shared some wisdom on...

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