The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.