Bill Frost
Bill Frost has been a journalist and TV reviewer since the 4:3-aspect-ratio ’90s. His pulse-pounding prose has been featured in The Salt Lake Tribune, Inlander, Coachella Valley Independent, Las Vegas Weekly, and many other dead-tree publications (see BillFrost.tv). In addition to being a Senior Contributing Writer at CableTV.com, Bill is a syndicated streaming TV columnist for Salt Lake City Weekly and other alternative weeklies, and host/producer of TV Tan Podcast. By night, Bill cranks a Flying V with his band at the bar.
Amazon Prime Video vs. Netflix
by Bill Frost | Jan 27, 2025 | Reviews, Streaming
Should you go with Prime Video or Netflix? Depends on what you’re looking for. Prime Video offers a higher quantity of TV shows and movies (over 15,000), and even more content through one-time rentals and premium channel subscriptions. Only a few Prime Video original shows and movies have dented the TV zeitgeist, however—hello, Mrs. Maisel.
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Where You Can Watch The Walking Dead
by Bill Frost | Jan 27, 2025 | Entertainment, Horror, How to Watch, Streaming, TV
The Walking Dead (TWD) is a character-based horror series about a zombie apocalypse, based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics graphic novel of the same name. The TV series premiered in 2010 on AMC and concluded its 11th and final season in 2022.
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The Best Christmas Musicals of the Modern Day
by Bill Frost | Jan 15, 2025 | Entertainment, Holiday, Listicles
You know the usual suspects: White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the rest of the Christmas musicals you see ticked off on holiday listicles year after year. Most of them came out before your parents (or parents’ parents) were born. What if we told you there are other Christmas musicals?
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How to Watch Friends
by Bill Frost | Jan 3, 2025 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Streaming, TV
Friends is one of the most popular American sitcoms of all time, airing for 10 seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004, which adds up to 236 episodes—that’s a lotta lattes. Did we mention that the show mostly takes place in a Manhattan coffee shop?
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What Channel Is TCM On?
by Bill Frost | Dec 17, 2024 | TV
Turner Classic Movies, commonly known as TCM, launched in 1994 as a cable home for classic films dating back to the ‘20s—the 1920s, to be clear. These days, TCM is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, but it remains commercial-free and uncensored (for now).
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8 Best Christmas TV Episodes
by Bill Frost | Nov 27, 2024 | Entertainment, Family, Holiday, Listicles, TV
TV Christmas episodes are better than Christmas movies in at least one aspect: They’re shorter—do you have time to watch a two-hour film during the holiday season? Ho-ho-nope. Here are some great modern-classic TV Christmas episodes to squeeze in this yuletide season, including a couple that may spike your familial anxiety. (You’ve been warned.)
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Get Cozy with 25 New Christmas Movies This Holiday Season
by Bill Frost | Nov 21, 2024 | Entertainment, Family, Holiday, Listicles
CableTV.com has covered the avalanche of new Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies premiering this season, but what’s happening outside of the Christmas Cable Industrial Complex? We’ve unwrapped fresh holiday (and holiday-adjacent) movies you won’t find on Hallmark or Lifetime.
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What To Watch This Week: Relax With Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (October 21–27)
by Bill Frost | Oct 21, 2024 | Entertainment, What to Watch
This week’s What To Watch recs include the final season of What We Do in the Shadows, new comedy Poppa’s House, Kate Beckinsale spy thriller Canary Black, the return of Somebody Somewhere, and the tip-off of the 2024–2025 NBA season. Where’s the remote?
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Binge or Cringe: ‘The English Teacher’
by Bill Frost | Oct 16, 2024 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Streaming, TV, What to Watch
On Labor Day 2024, FX casually dropped the first two episodes of English Teacher, a high school workplace comedy about, you guessed it, an English teacher. The eight-episode series follows Evan Marques (show creator and star Brian Jordan Alvarez), a chronically late and overly principled Austin high school teacher. He’s also gay, which is simultaneously irrelevant and central to the story.
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Prime Horror: The Best Horror Movies on Amazon Prime Video
by Randy Harward and Bill Frost | Oct 10, 2024 | Entertainment, Horror, Listicles, Streaming
The Amazon Prime Video library is massive, with 20,000+ movies—and 3,000+ are in the horror category, which sickos like us find delightful. We’ve combed through Prime Video’s horror section to bring you 11 recommendations—but these are only some of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime Video.
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