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 Staff Writer at CableTV.com, Bill is a syndicated streaming TV columnist forSalt 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, Versus Reviews
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.
Read more
Where You Can Watch The Walking Dead
by Bill Frost | Jan 27, 2025 | Entertainment, TV FAQs
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.
Read more
The Best Christmas Musicals of the Modern Day
by Bill Frost | Jan 15, 2025 | Best Of, Entertainment
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?
Read more
How to Watch Friends
by Bill Frost | Jan 3, 2025 | Entertainment, TV FAQs
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?
Read more
Sling Orange vs. Sling Blue: What’s the Difference?
by Bill Frost and Randy Harward | Dec 17, 2024 | Brand Reviews, Reviews, Versus Reviews
How do you choose between Sling TV’s same-priced, color-coded livestreaming plans? It depends on what you’re looking for: Blue gives you more channels and streams, but Orange carries a handful of gotta-have networks like ESPN and Disney. And neither is great for local programming, FYI.
Read more
What Channel Is TCM On?
by Bill Frost | Dec 17, 2024 | TV FAQs
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).
Read more
8 Best Christmas TV Episodes
by Bill Frost | Nov 27, 2024 | Entertainment
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.)
Read more
Get Cozy with 25 New Christmas Movies This Holiday Season
by Bill Frost | Nov 21, 2024 | Entertainment
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.
Read more
What To Watch This Week: Relax With Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (October 21–27)
by Bill Frost | Oct 21, 2024 | Entertainment
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?
Read more
Binge or Cringe: English Teacher
by Bill Frost | Oct 16, 2024 | Entertainment
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.
Read more