The Artful Blogger

It hurt me today to find out that my beloved The Office has received a record lowrating . This was the lowest for the American version of...

I don’t know who exercises to those morning TV shows anymore. In the 80s they had those Jane Fonda videos. Local stations still put on those...

I have officially given up writing my memoirs. I have thrown out all electronic drafts, random pieces of paper with quotes, notebooks half-...

Christmas has come early to a lot of us who love Jennifer Saunders’s thoroughly subversive celebrity industry comedy Absolutely Fabulous . ...

I couldn’t put my finger on what was missing from this year’s fall TV series lineup. The failure of The Playboy Club , the disappointment th...

One of my absolute favourite people on one of my absolute favourite TV series in life, The Office , is comedy writer Mindy Kaling , who pla...

Dear producers of Glee : You have so far given us the Madonna special, built an episode of self-empowerment around Lady Gaga, and gave us a...

The Blogger grew up in a house with several women. As is common with ethnic families, several generations of the same family lived in the sa...

Note: this originally appeared on the Blogger’s previous blog a few years ago, and is re-published on the eve of Oprah’s farewell episode. ...

Albert Brooks’s 1996 film Mother is the underrated modern classic comedy (for those of us who saw it) that should have become required Moth...