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.
What to Watch This Week | September 4–10
by Bill Frost | Sep 18, 2023 | Entertainment, What to Watch
This week’s What to Watch recs include new horror series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, a new season of Netflix hit Virgin River, the premieres of Predators and The Changeling, Labor Day comedy Office Race, and the broadcast debut of Inside the NFL. Fall is (almost) here!
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What to Watch This Week | September 11–17
by Bill Frost | Sep 11, 2023 | Entertainment, What to Watch
This week’s What to Watch picks include the return of Jennifer Aniston/Reese Witherspoon drama The Morning Show, Netflix flicks El Conde and Love at First Sight, the second season of Welcome to Wrexham, scenic thriller series Wilderness, and WNBA Playoffs action. Watch harder!
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How to Watch the 2023 U.S. Elections
by Bill Frost | Sep 7, 2023 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Industry News, Streaming, TV
On Tuesday, November 7, Americans will vote in the 2023 off-year elections. Since we’re in an odd-numbered year, these aren’t technically midterm elections, but they’ll still be referred to as such by some media outlets. On the ballots this year are several gubernatorial and state legislative elections, as well as citizen initiatives and mayoral contests.
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How to Watch Abbott Elementary
by Bill Frost | Sep 5, 2023 | Entertainment, How to Watch, TV
Abbott Elementary, a single-camera comedy that debuted quietly in the dead of winter 2021 on ABC, quickly became the broadcast hit of the past two years, and it’s now available to stream in its entirety on Max and Hulu. Also, ABC will be airing reruns of Abbott Elementary in the fall of 2023, billed as “encores,” on Wednesdays.
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Sex Education, Gen V, and the Biggest New and Returning Shows to Watch
by Bill Frost | Sep 1, 2023 | Entertainment, Streaming, TV, What to Watch
It’s only September, but we’re already seeing some Halloween-y horror TV pop up: American Horror Story: Delicate and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon are premiering this month, as are new seasons of The Kardashians and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (horror is subjective). Oh, and Welcome to Wrexham is back, too—go Dragons!
Read more What to Watch This Week | August 28–September 3
by Bill Frost | Aug 28, 2023 | Entertainment, What to Watch
This week’s What to Watch picks include the return of The Wheel of Time, the final seasons of Archer and Disenchantment, PBS mysteries Professor T and Van der Walk, horror flick Perpetrator, and WWE Payback pro wrestling action. Let’s watch some TV!
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National Cinema Day Is Back With $4 Movie Tickets
by Bill Frost | Aug 24, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News, Outreach
Fall is looming, but the summer movie season isn’t over yet: On Sunday, August 27, National Cinema Day 2023 kicks off a full day of $4 theater tickets to your favorite flicks of the summer, new releases, and classic re-releases. It was such a hit in 2022 that the National Cinema Foundation is going annual with it.
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49 Wildest Riverdale Plotlines
by Bill Frost | Aug 23, 2023 | Entertainment, Listicles, Streaming, TV
Since its debut in 2017, Riverdale has proven itself to be one of the most deliciously deranged teen dramas in TV history, an Archie Comics-meets-Twin Peaks fever dream that never takes a breath or a reality check. We’ve rounded up seven plotlines from seven seasons apiece to prove it.
Read more What to Watch This Week | August 21–27
by Bill Frost | Aug 21, 2023 | Entertainment, What to Watch
This week’s What to Watch recs include the premiere of Star Wars: Ahsoka, action thriller Who Is Erin Carter?, John Cena’s Vacation Friends 2, the series finales of Riverdale and Nancy Drew, and the 2023 PGA Tour Championship. Stop dreaming, start streaming!
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Streaming Finally Beats Linear TV (Momentarily)
by Bill Frost | Aug 17, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News, Streaming, TV
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the bottom falling out of linear television (standard broadcast, cable, and satellite) last month. According to TV ratings and data firm Nielsen, viewership for linear TV dropped below 50% for the first time ever in July 2023, just as streaming TV usage hit a record high of 38.7%, an increase of nearly 3% over June.
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