Moraes on TV - Television columnist Lisa de Moraes. - June 7, 2009

Sarah Palin's Traveling 'David Letterman's A Pervert' Tour

Alaska's Governess Sarah Palin took her David Letterman Is A Pervert Media Tour to NBC and CNN on Friday. On NBC's morning infotainment show, "Today," she told Matt Lauer how she'd found out Letterman had made a "comment" Monday on his CBS late-night show "about the statutory rape of...

MTV Discovers It's Coming to Washington for Next "Real World"

MTV finally got around to confirming what we've known for ages: the 23rd season of "The Real World" will explore the finer points of binge drinking and friends-with-benefits in our fair city of Washington, D.C. (Marissa Newhall -- The Washington Post) MTV said production starts "in the summer of...

Dave Bites Conan

CBS late-night star David Letterman took off his gloves and pounded his new NBC rival Conan O'Brien in preliminary ratings Tuesday night. Letterman clocked 3.4 percent of the TV homes in the metered markets, which represent about 70 percent of the country. Conan snagged 2.9 percent. It's the first...

Washington: "Real"-er by the minute

Late last week, we brought word that MTV's creaky "Real World" -- the series that is now older than MTV's target audience -- is finally coming to explore the finer points of binge drinking in our fair city of Washington, D.C. Over the weekend, Web sleuths skulked around a...

"Tony, She Won"

The return of Angela Lansbury -- patron saint of CBS -- drove 7.5 million viewers to the network's Sunday broadcast of the 63rd annual Tony Awards. That's the trophy show's biggest audience in three years and second biggest in the last five. The three-hour orgy of excess -- the...

Moraes on TV: June 7, 2009 - June 13, 2009

Sarah Palin's Traveling 'David Letterman's A Pervert' Tour

MTV Discovers It's Coming to Washington for Next "Real World"

Dave Bites Conan

Washington: "Real"-er by the minute

"Tony, She Won"