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Mike Sadowski
Mike Sadowski is pretty boring, but here's the quick scoop: Lifelong NEPA resident, Abington Heights grad ('93), Elizabethtown College grad ('97), sports reporter ('97-'99), news and cops reporter ('99-'04) and pretty much doing everything at the Read FullCategories
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Author Archives: Mike Sadowski
Mike Sadowski
Rescue Me from Boredom
Two reminders, the same two reminders we’ll have all week:
Reminder 1: The season finale of Rescue Me is tonight.
Just kidding.
The actual reminder is that we’re doing another PopRox live chat Friday at noon. We’ve had fun with these so far, so we’re going to keep doing them as long as it stays fun on the [...]
Contest Time!
Before we get to the contest, this programming note: The next PopRox live chat is Friday at noon. Between the Emmys, the new TV season, fall movies and whatever else might be on your mind, there should be plenty to talk about. So come armed with some good questions and we’ll hang out for a [...]
Emmy Predictions
When the Emmy nominations came out in July, it was glorious. For the first time in … ever? … the Emmy people seemed to get things right honoring the best TV has to offer.
There was no Boston Legal to laugh at, no Mentalist to scratch our heads over, no Entourage to make us think the [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, TV Tagged emmy, fallon, friday night lights, glee, mad men, michael c. hall, modern family 0 Comments
Your Fall Viewing Guide
We’ll be in TV overload for a couple weeks here. There isn’t a good movie coming out for more than a month and with the Emmys coming Sunday (picking the winners in Friday’s blog) and a new TV season on the way, there’s gonna be plenty of TV to cover.
For now, it’s the fall viewing [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, TV Tagged alex o'loughlin, better with you, biggest loser, bleep my dad says, boardwalk empire, caddyshack 2, chase, chuck lorre, Community, cougar town, dancing with the stars, defenders, detroit 1-8-7, emmys, family guy, fringe, glee, good wife, hawaii 5-o, hellcats, human target, it's always sunny in philadelphia, jerry bruckheimer, jerry o'connell, jim belushi, jimmy smits, lonestar, mad men, men of a certain age, mike and molly, modern family, my generation, ncis, nikita, no ordinary family, outsourced, parks and recreation, raising hope, running wilde, simpsons, the bachelor, the event, the good guys, the league, the middle, the office, the whole truth, tom selleck, undercovers, vampire diaries 0 Comments
Learning About Movies, Mad Men and the Emmys
Even though the movies blew, there was a lot to be learned this weekend at the box office, stuff we and every Hollywood studio should already have known, but apparently needed convincing:
--Buddy Ackerman would be proud, because “male macho bullsh!t” wins out again. Sylvester Stallone took a cheesy idea, one that could easily have gone straight [...]
The Weekend Awaits
First notice — we’re two weeks away from another PopRox chat. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
Today’s links:
This is always the most depressing box office week of the year, when studios trot out its trailer trash hoping to get some kind of return on the fact that it’s still summer, even though the movies look like [...]
Posted in Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV Tagged burn notice, espn, greenberg, j-lo, lottery ticket, mariah carey, nanny mcphee, piranha 3-d, rockford files, scott pilgrim, snakes on a plan, spider-man, the switch, time warner, vampire diaries, vampires suck 0 Comments
The Advent of Poconos 3-D
The Poconos has 3-D!
Well, not yet, not til Friday, when the Poconos Movieplex unveils its new 3-D screen for the release of Piranha 3-D. And not that it matters to me since I have yet to even consider seeing a 3-D movie, but not having one feels like we’ve been living in some barren Arctic outpost. There [...]
Posted in Movies, Pop Culture, TV, The Local Scene Tagged batman, caddyshack, danny boyle, death comes to town, flight of the conchords, han solo, hugh jackman, james franco, jerry o'connell, michael douglas, piranha 3-d, salt, scott pilgrim, simpsons, snakes on a plane, spider-man, x-men first class 0 Comments
The Summer That Was
The good news about the box office for the weekend is that all three of the new releases were non-sequels, one of the few times that’s happened this summer. The bad news is that there’s probably already an Expendables 2 script being written right now, the other two were book adaptations and Scott Pilgrim laid [...]
Belushi, Britney, J-Lo and Kayne. That Should Be Enough for One Day.
Because I went all Office on everyone Wednesday, let’s hit the links and play catch-up:
As if Artie Lange wasn’t depressed enough about his drug habit and how it forced him to leave The Howard Stern Show, now comes the news that the part he’s been dying to play his entire career — his hero, John [...]
Posted in Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV Tagged artie lange, bill murray, britney spears, death comes to town, ethan suplee, friday night lights, gambit, glee, j-lo, jimmy fallon, john belushi, jonah hill, kanye west, kids in the hall, lady gaga, madonna, newsradio, real genius, real world, sean duffy, seth rogen, thomas lennon, tim riggins, tyler labine, weird science 0 Comments
It’s Not Hard — Sucky Movies Equal Sucky Returns