Aug 23, 2006
New Capitol Hill Series Premieres Tonight
Hill staffers, it’s your turn to bathe in the harsh glare of the reality TV spotlight. The new six-part Capitol Hill documentary series The Hill (not to be confused with the Laguna Beach spin off The Hills) shadows the young staff of Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla) as they navigate the slippery halls of political power. While a documentary about the wonky inner workings of a Hill office sounds mundane at best to us, we are…
Oct 05, 2004
‘Tanner’ on TV
If you can’t stomach the debate this evening, but are still in the mood for some TV viewing in a political vein, catch Robert Altman’s “Tanner on Tanner.” The first of the four-part series airs tonight at 9 p.m. on the Sundance Channel. A follow up to Altman’s well received 1988 TV series about faux presidential candidate Jack Tanner (“Tanner ’88”), “Tanner on Tanner” puts the focus on his daughter, Alex Tanner, played by Cynthia…