WATCH OR LISTEN: Chose the full video version of the Rocketship 7 podcast episode (above) or the audio only version (below) Thanks for all the feedback so far on this week’s “Blast off Back to Rocketship 7” episode of brioux.tv: the podcast. Here are a few examples: I live in Ontario. I’m now 67 but
This coming Sunday after 60 Minutes, CBS News will premiere the one-hour special Rob Reiner: Scenes from a Life. The acclaimed actor-writer-director was found murdered in his home last Sunday along with his wife and fellow activist, Michele Singer Reiner. The couple’s younest son, Nick Reiner, 32, has been arrested and charged with the slayings.
UPDATED. When the world goes mad, you have the clowns to give you hope in humanity. John Candy, rising like the warmest summer sun with the recent release of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Dick Van Dyke, also beloved. He made it to 100 Saturday, and young and old felt their hearts lifted
When I was a child of the 1960s, it was the wild west when it came to keeping kids entertained on television. Sure there were national shows such as The Friendly Giant and Captain Kangaroo, amd Romper Room, Soupy Sales and Sherri Lewis and Lambchop were everywhere back then, but the regional shows are the
Today is a jolly holiday occasion — Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday. Hats off to one of the greatest entertainers of this or any century. He is well known, of course, for his ’60s series The Dick Van Dyke Show, “Bye Bye Birdie,” and such cherished children’s films as “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang
Celebrate one of television’s greatest stars a day before his 100th birthday with the American Masters special “Starring Dick Van Dyke.” The two hour presentation premieres Friday night starting at 9/8C and will also be available at pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS App The two hour celebration has no new interview with Van Dyke. The beloved
Back when I was seven, I used to take a pair of plastic safety sissors and cut Peanuts comic strips out of the Toronto Star. Then I’d fetch some Elmers Glue-all and paste them in a scrapbook. My obsession grew. I spent all my nickels and dimes on the Fawcett Crest Peanuts paperbacks. They were
UPDATED. When the world goes mad, you have the clowns to give you hope in humanity. John Candy, rising like the warmest summer sun with the recent release of the documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Dick Van Dyke, also beloved. He made it to 100 Saturday, and young and old felt their hearts lifted
Back when I was seven, I used to take a pair of plastic safety sissors and cut Peanuts comic strips out of the Toronto Star. Then I’d fetch some Elmers Glue-all and paste them in a scrapbook. My obsession grew. I spent all my nickels and dimes on the Fawcett Crest Peanuts paperbacks. They were
We called him “President for Life” of the Television Critics Association, but Eric Kohanik was always really its greatest ambassador, the glue that held the whole thing together. The TCA’s semi-annual press tours, prized by TV critics and editors across North America for unequalled access to executives and talent, would not have lasted as long
Jimmy Kimmel has hosted some incredibly emotional hours of his late night series in 23 seasons, but none so devestatingly personal as the one he delivered last night. Kimmel was mourning the loss of his lifelong friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III. The saxophonist and leader of Cleto and the Cletones passed
I took this photograph of June Lockhart in 2001 — nearly a quarter century ago. The actress and several of her colleagues from the sci-fi series Lost in Space (1965-68) gathered at a Television Critics Association press tour that summer at what was then the Ritz Carlton Hunnington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. If you were
Johnny Carson was born on this days a century ago. One hundred years ago?! You are correct, sir. The Emmy and Peabody award-winning entertainer died in 2005 at age 79. In 30 years as host of The Tonight Show, Carson presided over over 4500 episodes, interviewing over 25,000 guests. From 1962 to 1992 he was
