The Shield Deserves More Respect

Let's cut right to the chase today, shall we? "The Shield" is by a continent-wide margin the best cop/detective show currently on television. Come with me, then, as I lapse into fanboy mode and attempt to articulate, using words like "awesome" and "unreal" and "super-amazing," why fans of "Deadwood," "Chinatown" and "The Departed" ought to treat themselves to a belated introduction to "The Shield."

Advertisers Will Be Able to Get Taste of 90210 After All

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Attention advertisers who want an early glimpse at characters like Brenda Walsh and Kelly Taylor: You can get a sense of what's going to be included in the CW's "90210" remake, despite reports to the contrary.

How to Reach Out and Touch a Brit (With Media)

LONDON (AdAge.com) -- TouchPoints, a consumer-centric survey created by the U.K.'s Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, looks intimately at daily behavior and media consumption across all platforms in the region.

Is This the End of the FCCs Church Lady Crusade? Amen!

Watching the "Church Lady" legacy of the FCC get slowly dismantled should be more fun than it is. Instead, it's just reminding me how much time we've all wasted thinking about it over the past few years.

Media Guys Pop Pick: Dirty Words

This new quasi-reference book from Bloomsbury USA, "Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex," is thoughtful. Serious. Funny. Scholarly. Accessible. Revelatory. Entertaining.