If I’m ever striking up a conversation with someone about underrated game shows (which sounds like a totally valid conversation topic to me…), there’s a very good chance that I’ll be mentioning the legendary 90s game show, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? This show had it all - mystery, geography, trivia, animated hijinks…

The original TGIF programming block overlapped almost perfectly with the 1990s - it premiered on September 22, 1989, and ran through September 8, 2000 (in its first run). TGIF was a perfect example of how television viewing can transcend beyond individual shows and be more about the experience itself. This was exactly what TGIF was all about.

One of my absolute favorite television genres (no judgment, please) is the teen drama. It doesn’t matter how old I get, there will always be something comforting about watching characters partake in coming-of-age journeys, young love, and all of the excitement and uncertainties of growing up…

In some ways, traditional network sitcoms feel like a bit of a dying art form. For the first time in 50+ years, when NBC released its fall lineup (for its upcoming 2021 season), there were ZERO half-hour comedies on its schedule. Yes, you read that correctly: zero. In 2015, when NBC’s Superstore first premiered…

The appearance of a character name in an episode title often signifies an important role that the character is playing in one of the episode’s main storylines, so it can be a possible signal of which character(s) are crucial to the series overall…

Before I started watching What We Do in the Shadows, the most common way it was described to me was: “It’s basically The Office, but with vampires.” You would think that would have been enough to have sold me from the start, but I was honestly a bit skeptical that it might be a bit too kooky for my taste…

When I first started doing some research to put together the above graph, I quickly learned that I wasn’t the only person out there with clear childhood memories tied to television shows making the transition from black and white to color…

WandaVision was the show that made me (and millions of other fans) fall completely back in love with weekly, episodic TV viewing. It was a brilliant decision to have a show like WandaVision, which was both a sitcom of its own right…

Let’s be honest: no one does recurring bits (and recurring characters) quite like Arrested Development. From the banana stand to “her?” to “no touching!” to that very literal doctor to all those great chicken impersonations…

I grew up on Friends. I fell in love with it in junior high, my group of girlfriends was all mutually obsessed with it in high school, and I graduated in 2004, the year the series ended…