TV

Schur provides ‘Good Place’ for television
By Beth Lindly
November 6, 2016 - 2:25pm
The mind behind Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine has accomplished something wonderful with NBC's new 30-minute comedy 'The Good Place.'

You can’t swear in The Good Place. In this heaven-but-not-quite-Heaven, each unapproved word or phrase has a friendlier alternative, like “bullshirt,” “motherforker” and “ash hole.” If you’re negative at all, the universe responds in kind, sometimes creating sinkholes, sometimes sending shrimp flying through the air. There is a frozen yogurt store on every block.

October's Netflix Line-Up
By Rachel George
October 3, 2016 - 12:19pm
If you're looking for a new Netflix binge session, here are some new shows and movies for you to check out this month.

If you haven’t noticed already, fall is here. It’s time for sweaters, boots and lots of pumpkin spice lattes. Cold weather isn’t too far away, and neither is Halloween.

Looking for love, technology, science fiction or simply a day to play hooky? Maybe an occasional “Netflix and Cuddle” session? Well, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of upcoming shows and films coming to Netflix this month.

October 1

A Cinderella Story (2004)

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

Blue Streak (1999)

Gotham Season 1, Episode 4: We're all just the Penguin's puppets
By Sarah Hope
October 19, 2014 - 9:37pm
Review: An improved story arc involving mob-boss warfare proves yet again that the villains in this pre-Batman series are more captivating than the heroes.

Can a lowly, hobbling dishwasher take over Gotham City without anyone noticing?

In the fourth episode of Gotham, the political tangles of government, law enforcement and the rival gangs reach a climax. The disturbed vigilante justice of the first few episodes gives way to organized crime syndicates at war.

Selfie Season 1, Episode 1: Fun fluff but weak flavor
By Sarah Hope
October 6, 2014 - 9:26am
The show's wit and pop-culture savviness show promise, but it runs the risk of getting old fast (just like its title).

If there was ever a show orchestrated for people in their mid-twenties, Selfie is it. And I mean orchestrated. "Arranged or combined so as to achieve a desired or maximum effect" (thank you, Merriam-Webster).

Gotham Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2: "Relax, Junior."
By Sarah Hope
October 6, 2014 - 9:26am
The new Fox show delves into the city that spawned Batman but could use some tightening and polishing.

Gotham is a serious place. Such crime, such corruption, such stormy skies. Detective James Gordon, a war hero-turned-cop, may be the most serious part of this dark city.

Max Greenfield of 'New Girl' talks Schmidt, life and your 20s
By Allie Caren
April 2, 2014 - 12:17am
Star of FOX's 'New Girl' visits SU, gives Q&A with students.

When asked to speak at SU, New Girl’s Max Greenfield said he would much rather come to accept his honorary degree and serve as this year’s commencement speaker.

“You guys go to the cool school,” he said Tuesday night. “Go ‘Cuse! Carmelo Anthony foreva!”

No, Greenfield didn’t go to SU, but his witty, woman-loving, Jewish-professing character, Schmidt did, and it was Schmidt who showed up to deliver a commencement-styled talk filled with advice, jokes and even a little Judaism on Tuesday night.

Ring in the new year with these TV shows
By Sarah Hope
December 13, 2013 - 1:14am
These returning favorites and series debuts have TV lovers anxiously awaiting the new year.

It’s winter in Syracuse, which means all I really want to do is snuggle up on my couch with a giant mug of tea and some great television. Here are three excellent returning shows I’m looking forward to this winter. (Warning: spoilers!)

The Orange Pop: "Gravity," Fall TV Check-Ins, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees (Episode 6)
By Jack Thomas Williams
October 30, 2013 - 12:39am
The pop culture team drools over Alfonso Cuaron's latest, assesses what's going on with TV that is currently airing (or maybe not airing anymore), before talking about the newest nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This week we tell you why Gravity was amazing. We talk about the directing, the story, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, and the vastness of space.

We then move into talking about established television shows such as How I Met Your Mother and New Girl, shows that have debuted like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and shows that have already kicked the can including We Are Men and Ironside.

We finish by going over the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and who might get in this year.

The Adventures of Jessica DiCicco
By Paige Cooperstein
April 22, 2013 - 12:05pm
DJ, actress, music video director and voice of Flame Princess on the hit animated TV series, 'Adventure Time': Jessica DiCicco is doing it all, and she's only getting started.

“Flame Princess! Flame Princess! Flame Princess!”

A crowd of people wearing fiery-colored dresses, red wigs, cat-eared hoods and green backpacks suddenly rushed the stage as Jessica DiCicco was deejaying.

Scott Sanders unscripted
By Jason Berger
February 23, 2010 - 9:47pm
Writer and director of 'Black Dynamite' discusses the creative and racial challenges of the entertainment industry.

Scott Sanders, writer and director of the film Black Dynamite, came to Syracuse University on Tuesday to participate in a Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media with television, radio and film professor Richard Dubin. The free-flowing discussion, held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III, focused on the changes in the entertainment industry over the past two decades and on Sanders’s thoughts on opportunities for African-Americans in film.