Q. I have noticed over the past few months that when a program goes to commercial, the commercial starts and within five seconds it skips to another one. The rest of the commercials are shown without a problem. This happens on many of the channels....

    There has been an obituary-like reaction to Oprah Winfrey's announcement that she is ending her syndicated daytime show on Sept. 9, 2011. This is way premature.   Oprah is not going away, never to be heard from again, as Johnny Carson did....

    Q. I am so tired of the scrolling words at the bottom of the screen during TV shows. My latest gripe is with NBC-6. During the late afternoon shows and after the midday news they have been running a constant scroll about phone lines open and...

  Lost will return for its final season on Feb. 2, then will air regularly on Tuesday nights at 9. This means there will be weeks when Lost and American Idol go head to head.    An hour-long recap at 8 p.m. will lead into Lost's new season,...

  California--ground zero for environmental looniness--has done it again.   The state, which pioneered "paper or plastic?"; "plastic, no paper" and now "neither" and soon will allow eco-nuts to go after toilet paper, has gone to war with big...