MTV

And The Award For The Most Ridiculous…

(Jul 15, 2010) I love the MTV Movie Awards. I am not a tween, I have not seen Twilight, I do not wear Uggs or Extreme Couture and I do not ow...

PBS to get serious about the arts?

(Apr 30, 2010) There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about PBS’ arts programming recently… read it yourself. I ha...

Can Pitchfork.tv realize the MTV dream?

(Apr 20, 2010) It’s official: Pitchfork, the tastemaking indie rock criticism site, is launching a web TV channel in April that hopes to fill ...

Back When Music Videos Meant Something

(Mar 15, 2010) As a teenager, I majorly missed out on music videos: I didn’t have MTV, and streaming video was a distant dream. So it̵...

Big Love Returns in a Big Way

(Mar 04, 2010) I wasn’t super excited to start watching Big Love again this season. I actually put off starting it for a couple of weeks, beca...

Creatures from the Zoo on the Loose at MTV

(Jan 28, 2010) Watching MTV lately is like watching wild animals let out of the zoo run amok. The Jersey Shore was way too short. I think thereâ€...

Going indie the mainstream way

(Jan 25, 2010) Musical definitions are so confusing these days. Just check out the Genre Shirt by Carles of Hipsterrunoff if you don’t bel...

Fist Pumpin, Juice Chuggin, Blood Gushin

(Dec 29, 2009) MTV is known for its scripted “reality” shows, but I can’t figure out whether its new series “Jersey Shor...

I Don’t Think I Can Ever Use the Word ‘Guido’ Again

(Dec 21, 2009) After hearing the words “guido” and “guidette” uttered time after time after time on MTV’s newest re...

EMA – BERLIN

(Nov 18, 2009) We had the EMAs over in Berlin last week, most likely because MTV wanted to coincide this TV spectacle with the 20 year anniversa...

Alexa Chung is a babe and a host on MTV even though I don’t watch it

(Oct 22, 2009) Friends occasionally talk about Alexa Chung because she is an MTV host and she lives or lived in Williamsburg and dates british i...

‘My New Best Friend’ with Christian Ulmen

(Oct 02, 2009) 'Mein Neuer Bester Freund' The state of German broadcasting leaves a lot to be desired. Apart from the odd documentary on ...

Flirty MTV reports are antidote to dull television

(Sep 24, 2009) I’ve never seen so many dull tv-shows as today in Russia. Television is well-censored and all you can get are these flirty repor...