Mike Hughes

TV TODAY: 'House' finale gets repeat showing

Over two Wednesdays, Fox will rerun last year's brilliant season finale. Battered by an accident, Dr. House has only shards of memory. Why was he on a bus? And who was the passenger who showed dangerous symptoms? This rerun...

Richard Thomsen, BoarsHead Theater co-founder, mourned

Mike Hughes • Lansing State Journal • November 18, 2008 • From lsj.com Richard Thomsen -- who co-founded BoarsHead Theater and transformed Lansing's arts scene -- is being mourned by local theatergoers. "He was a brilliant...

NBC hopes moving 'Life' collars a larger audience

Charlie Crews is a patient man. But how much longer is this Zen-striving Los Angeles police detective supposed to wait for TV viewers to discover that they can't live without his quick wit, astute observations or sparkling red...

Tutor mingles with the rich in CW's 'Privileged'

The big attention goes to "Gossip Girl," "90210" and "One Tree Hill," filled with young people who have wealth and beauty. "Privileged" covers the same turf lightly. "It's very much, 'Wouldn't it be interesting if the "Gilmore...

PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience :: UXmatters

By Mike Hughes Published: November 17, 2008 “If we’re giving manuals to users to read online, why do we design and write them for paper?” What the user finds there is a PDF file containing the manual—or a collection of PDF...

Writers' strike paved way for Web series

By Jake Coyle • Associated Press • November 17, 2008 Strike.TV was born on the picket line. The new Web site was conceived during the Hollywood writers' strike a year ago. At the time, writers -- ironically or fittingly,...

TV today: 'Wedding Crashers,' 'Godfather,' Ricky Gervais, more

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: "Wedding Crashers," 8 p.m., WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS. Big weddings seem to have endless food, fun and drink. So why not just slip in? That works fine for two guys -- until one falls in love.

TV TODAY: Twists take shows in new directions

Twists take shows in new directions TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: "Ghost Whisperer," 8 p.m., WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS. Last week, Melinda's husband was accidentally killed. We didn't like the plot -- which absurdly had a cop shoot at an...

For Keke Palmer, excelling is the norm

If all of her roles stuck with her, Keke Palmer would be nearly perfect. She'd be a chess champ, a spelling champ and a jump-rope champ. She'd be throwing perfect passes and exhibiting great fashion sense. Now the movie actress...

Students tune in to bygone eras for theater shows

Mike Hughes mhughes@lsj.com Right now, the way-back machines are warming up. "This is a historical piece for them," DeWitt High director Jeff Croley said of his "Disco Inferno" actors. "People loaned us a real surrey," director...

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