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Tuning In: Liz Lemon's ringtone

TV post by Alyx Vesey on April 12, 2010 - 11:06am; tagged 30 Rock, fandom, Fuck the Pain Away, Liz Lemon, Peaches, Tina Fey, Tuning In.
Last month, NBC aired 30 Rock's "Future Husband" episode, wherein TGS creator/head writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) tracks down the man she labeled her spouse-to-be on her iPhone. It was a follow-up to the Valentine's Day-themed "Anna Howard Shaw Day," which found the show's heroine spending the most romantic day of the year at the dentist, haunted by hallucinations of ex-boyfriends as the painkillers took hold. Apparently while doped up, Lemon met a British man named Wesley Snipes (Michael Sheen). When they exchanged phone numbers, both parties were looking to settle. "Future Husband" focuses on them not wanting to acknowledge that society thinks their age and relationship status thinks that they should. For those who'd like to watch the episode in full, go here.

As I was anticipating this blog series at the time of my viewing, imagine my good fortune when I realized that Lemon changed her ringtone from Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" (i.e., Elmer Fudd's "Kill the Wabbit") to Peaches's "Fuck the Pain Away."

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Tuning In: Neko Case as Cheyenne Cinnamon

TV post by Alyx Vesey on April 9, 2010 - 12:30pm; tagged Adult Swim, Britney Spears, Cheyenne Cinnamon, female pop stars, Neko Case, Tuning In.
Neko Case stars in an Adult Swim pilot about a female pop star who doesn't save the day.
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Welcome to Kabletown, Population: Irony (Sort of)

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on April 8, 2010 - 12:25pm; tagged 30 Rock, comcast, irony, Kabletown.


If you've been watching 30 Rock this season, you might be familiar with Kabletown, the fictional media company that is in the process of purchasing NBC on the show. If you've been paying attention to media news recently, you might be familiar with Comcast, the real media company that is in the process of purchasing NBC in real life. Art imitates life! Even when life is in a Brave New World state controlled by media monopolies! In an added twist, NBC has launched a Kabletown website that contains some jokes that are so over-the-top they would be hilarious, if they weren't describing a dismal media future that is all too imminent for NBC/Comcast. Looks like a fake website is covering a real merger in a more effective way than most news outlets. Thanks, Tina Fey?
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Tuning In: Janelle Monáe's "Tightrope"

TV post by Alyx Vesey on April 7, 2010 - 8:00am; tagged androgyny, Janelle Monáe, Lauri Faggioni, music videos, race, The ArchAndroid, Tightrope, Tuning In, Wendy Morgan.

A look at Janelle Monáe's music video for "Tightrope."

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Tuning In: Lane Kim

TV post by Alyx Vesey on April 5, 2010 - 12:44pm; tagged Alexis Bledel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, CW, female drummers, Gilmore Girls, Hep Alien, Keiko Agena, Lane Kim, Lauren Graham, Tuning In, WB.


Welcome to the first entry in a series I'll be doing called "Tuning In." Over the next eight weeks, I will be highlighting intersections of music culture and television from a feminist perspective. As music is often relegated to the background or given minimal consideration when used in other mediums, I thought a post on Lane Kim, protagonist Rory Gilmore's best friend in the long-running series Gilmore Girls, would be a good introduction to my interests here.
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Tuning in to Marlee Matlin's new network--YouTube

TV post by Kjerstin Johnson on April 2, 2010 - 1:07pm; tagged disability, Marlee Matlin, My Deaf Family, reality TV.

Marlee Matlin, best known for her Oscar-winning performance on Children of a Lesser God and her role as Jodi on The L Word, is now behind the camera on a new reality show, My Deaf Family. "Deaf and hard of hearing people make up one of the largest minority groups, and yet there has never been a show, a reality documentary series that features what life is like for them," Matlin said in an LA Times post. Although only on YouTube for now, the pilot proves the show definitely will have staying power.
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Crip Drag No More?

TV post by Sara Reihani on March 20, 2010 - 4:39pm; tagged crip drag, disability, Glee, social commentary, TV, wheelchair users.
Are you counting down the days until Glee returns for a second season (23!) or are you groaning at the mere mention of a show you hoped would be wiped from the national memory once American Idol came back on the air and satisfied the public urge to see young people engage in petty competition and sweaty vocal gymnastics? Whichever camp you fall into, you may remember the amount of controversy surrounding Glee's use and attempted subversion of various stereotypes, which was covered in some detail by our very pithy Transcontinental Disability Choir guest blog back in November.
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On the Map: Brazilian Feminists Get Played by a Naughty Blonde

TV post by Mandy Van Deven on March 3, 2010 - 11:21am; tagged advertisement, Bem Loura, Brazil, commercial, Devassa, Grupo Schincariol, Paris Hilton.

American beer commercials may be able to overtly portray women as sexual objects, but as brewer Grupo Schincariol found out yesterday, doing so in Brazil can get your ad banned.

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Seeking: Dynamic Women Who Don't Need A Hero

TV post by LatoyaPeterson on March 2, 2010 - 1:59pm; tagged A song of fire and ice, epic, Fantasy, fantasy, gender, Legend of the Seeker, legend of the seeker, SciFI.
Confession time: I love me a good low budget fantasy series. If it's on a second rate cable network, and it features magic, medieval times, and roaming adventures, I'm in. I lived for Xena: Warrior Princess and all its chakram throwing, ululating battle crying, lesbian subtext possessing glory. Later, I started watching Hercules - hell, I even gave Sinbad a try. But for the past few years, it appeared that the glory days of historic revisionism were over.
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The Marriage Ref: Not worth fighting for.

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on March 1, 2010 - 8:00am; tagged Alec Baldwin, Jerry Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa, marriage, television, The Marriage Ref, Tom Papa.
After viewing roughly 1.2 million promos for it during the Winter Olympics, I decided to give NBC's new prime time show The Marriage Ref a chance during last night's "special sneak preview." Sure, the promos made it look like a boring, offensive excuse to parade NBC celebrities in front of the cameras and portray marriage as a hilarious prison, but Jerry Seinfeld created it and he used to have a show that was pretty funny. Yeah. USED to.

The Call: This show is pointless.
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