Is the sun setting on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei?
It does seem the sun is setting, after 25 years, on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei on RTL. Last Thursday, the network released three episodes from 8.15 p.m., and to heck with the low ratings of the last episode which would be far too late for younger viewers. They’re doing the same this […]
New series Design Genius showcases designer ingenuity, with Indashio as host and judge
Indashio, whom Lucire first covered in 2003, and who had styled a number of our print-edition covers in the 2000s, already known through VH1’s Glam God, will host and judge a new series for Fashion One, called Design Genius. The show sees three designers competing for a top prize of US$25,000. Designers are given […]
The longest-running animated series, The Simpsons, will celebrate its 500-episode landmark on February 19. Creator Matt Groening recalls how viewers of the Fox network’s The Tracey Ullman Show liked the brief cartoons that filled the gaps in each episode—and The Simpsons was spun off into its own half-hour show in 1989. For some, […]
The Beautiful Life was out of step
The CW Above Nico Tortorella and Mischa Barton in The Beautiful Life. We didn’t think the CW’s The Beautiful Life would last long, but we didn’t expect it to be canned after two episodes. It didn’t help that one of its stars, Anglo-American actress Mischa Barton, sought psychiatric treatment months before the series’ […]
Our Cal’s in Ride with the Devil
[Cross-posted] During my last trip to Auckland, I was telling a lot of people this: Ride with the Devil, premières TV2, September 4, 11 p.m. This is a new TV show that stars my friend Caleigh Cheung, an occasional correspondent with Lucire. It’s her first major role in a networked drama, I believe, but […]
