Set phasers for stunned! Kevin Vahey, an eagle-eyed reader from Cambridge, MA, knows his TV history. He has shared some little known facts here in the past and just sent another red alert. If you’re surfing around social media you may have noticed several postings celebrating today, September 8, as the 55th anniversary of the
After weeks of landing in the No. 2 or 3 spots on Numeris’ list of the Top 30 TV programs in English Canada, Private Eyes finished its summer run in the very top position. Close to 1.4 million Canadians said goodbye to Matt Shade and Angie Everett (Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson) on the final
No doubt viewers will remember Jon Stewart’s impassioned plea before the U.S. congress on behalf of the first responders. These were the people who fearlessly did their jobs at ground zero on those horrible days 20 years ago this September. Now a Canadian-made documentary, shot over five years and chronicling the fight to gain compensation
The term “showrunner” is tossed around a lot today in television. You never really heard it, however, until Steven Bochco came along. Bochco, who cut his teeth writing for ’70s detective shows such as Ironside, Columbo and McMillan & Wife, co-created a string of hits starting in the early 1980s with Hill Street Blues, LA
Podcasts. I’ve got one; you’ve got one, everybody’s got one. They’re fun to guest on, as well, as I found out this week when I was welcomed aboard Bad Pilots. That’s the podcast where my son Dan Brioux, and co-host Aidan D’Aoust, watch pilot episodes of TV shows and take a deep dive into just
Willard Scott, for many years the friendly weatherman on The Today Show, died Saturday at 87 with lows of 83 in the valley. Scott, who began his career as an NBC page, brought a local, small market charm to network television — one that was not always appreciated by NBC colleague Bryant Gumbel. In 1989,
Gather round, fans of rare, early, one-of-a-kind TV gems, You won’t want to miss this: Labour Day weekend marks the return of another LA-based Cinecon movie festival. For the second September in a row, the coronavirus has moved the festival on-line only. That’s good news to many of us who live far from LA as
Shaun Majumder, wife Shelby and their infant daughter Mattis Maple were in Mexico when COVID srarted to shut everything down early in 2020. They scrambled out in the nick of time before they would have had to isolate in place. That marked the beginning of a very upside down 18 months. As it did for