TV blogs?

May 14, 2008 2:16 AM

Needing recommendations for TV blogs, including British TV

I've been liking Televisionary a lot. I like the script reviews and previews and ep recaps. Are there any other blogs like this the Hive can recommend?

In particular, I want to track down some British TV blogs. Televisionary will often talk about Brit TV, but I want to know more, and sooner!

posted by mooza to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

For British TV: The Custard is the best. They used to be a non-blog site, but recently switched to the blog format. It has a biting, very British sense of humor, or should I say humour. I especially love their Apprentice recaps. (That of course is the UK version of The Apprentice, which is about a million times better than the Trump version.)

The best source of all things US TV is The Futon Critic. It's not exactly a blog, though you can subscribe to the latest news feed (mostly press releases direct from the sources). Other TV blogs and sites often use The Futon Critic as their source, whether they cite it or not. His reviews of all new pilots are always good, and he is only occasionally wrong in his predictions of what shows will last beyond their first year. (Ugly Betty comes to mind, which he hated.)

Also, for a specialized blog, reality blurred, which is just about reality TV, is very good. I don't even watch most of the shows he talks about but it's still entertaining, cynical without crossing over to the downright nasty.
posted by thread_makimaki at 3:09 AM on May 14, 2008

Seconding The Custard. Also try TV Scoop or OTT Blog.
posted by Cuppatea at 5:05 AM on May 14, 2008

Not really a blog as such but Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn over at the Guardian is a blindingly funny look at what's currently polluting the UK TV schedules.
posted by oh pollo! at 5:39 AM on May 14, 2008

Seconding Brooker...

For Brit TV there is also the Guardian's TV and Radio blog
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:20 AM on May 14, 2008

Washington Post's writers are doing one called Channel This
posted by chickaboo at 6:41 AM on May 14, 2008

Whitney Matheson's Pop Candy is great. Covers a lot of tv, but also music, comics, and other pop culture effluvia. Highly recommended.
posted by namewithoutwords at 7:32 AM on May 14, 2008

I'll second reality blurred. It is quite good for what it aims to be.
posted by mmascolino at 10:04 AM on May 14, 2008

The Washington Post TV Column while not a blog is excellent and has a RSS Feed so you could treat it as a blog without comments.
posted by mmascolino at 10:19 AM on May 14, 2008

For UK television, Digital Spy is good for information about upcoming shows, interviews with cast/directors/producers. The site is obsessed with US imports, but then that reflects current UK tv. The tv blog is called Tubetalk.

Lowculture is brilliant, focusing on rubbish telly and soaps, with very caustic humour but may be difficult to follow if you're not based in the UK.
posted by boudicca at 3:09 AM on May 21, 2008