There’s a bit of a media brouhaha over at 1150 15th Street NW concerning the future of Washington Post television and culture critic Tom Shales. Shales, who has been working on contract for the Post after taking the newspaper’s buyout back in 2006, wrote on Washington Post Co. CEO Don Graham’s Facebook wall that he was up and quitting his job come December 31. Shales reconfirmed late last night with TBD’s Andrew Beaujon that he…

Get ready to set your DVR’s and TiVo’s, D.C. The major networks have already started rolling out their new line-ups, but this week there are seemingly unlimited primetime viewing options as the new fall TV season kicks into high gear. Family sitcoms are back, as are shows about aliens. Where does D.C. fit into this prime time muddle? Lucky for us, it looks like the political drama is still going strong. We’ll have more then…

Dan Rather leaves the anchor chair at CBS Evening News tonight after 24 years. His final broadcast is at 7 p.m. and while DCist hasn’t watched a network news broadcast in, say, years, we feel bad for the guy that’s apparently been brought down by bloggers. Will this DCist miss him? Um, probably not. Of all the high profile media anchors that have been jumping ship recently, we have to say it was Bob Edward’s…

So it wasn’t Philadelphia’s night. We’re sure Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven, where ever they are, are rolling in their graves, pissed off that their dejected city lost out on football’s top prize. Are you happy New England won? Or do you think Philadelphia should have taken home the Lombardi trophy? (This DCist had divided loyalties of sorts. First, in our undergraduate days in Ann Arbor, we were introduced to a very drunk Tom…

(From DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) The fall TV season kicks into high gear with the premiere of Jack & Bobby tonight at 9 p.m. on the WB. The political drama genre was becoming sparse on network television with just The West Wing, but now the city’s politicos and C-SPAN junkies have another show they can call their own. (One of the show’s co-creators, Brad Meltzer, is the author of the Capitol Hill bestseller “The Zero…