When Jess Salgueiro auditioned in person for the role of young single mom Eve on Frasier, she had to do it in front of a pair of sitcom legends: star and producer Kelsey Grammer and director Jim Burrows. Pressure? Yes and no says the actress, who was born in Winnipeg, Man. She figured there must
That’s Iron Mike Tyson eying my ears like they were big juicy pork chops. (Thanks to TCA colleague April Neale for the timely photo op.) Back in 2011, at a Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., the former heavyweight champion was a guest at an OWN Network launch party hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
If you are a fan of The Beatles, all you need is love and a Disney+ subscription to get back to where you once belonged. Every couple of months seems to bring another documentary. The next one, Beatles ’64, begins streaming on November 29. It is produced by Martin Scorsese (too busy, it seems, to
Looking for something to stream you can hum along to? You can do no better than Music By John Williams, streaming now on demand on Disney+. The documentary is directed by French filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau (Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind) and produced by many of the people whose films Williams has enhanced, including Steven Spielberg,
Early last month, when I wrote about the death of Canadian talk show host Mike Bullard, it reminded me of a turning point for one of the biggest late night stars in America: Conan O’Brien. Now 61, O’Brien was 40 early in 2004 and after a decade at 12:35 a.m. secure enough in his job
Stop me if you’ve seen this kind of Hallmark movie before: an enterprising and attractive single woman named Emily Lane (Sarah Drew from Grey’s Anatomy) owns a Christmas store on the main street of a picturesque small town. She crosses paths with a handsome, newly single-police officer (Peter Mooney from Burden of Truth). Before you
If you grew up watching Saturday Morning cartoons on television in the ’60s and ’70s — or wish you did — have I got a show for you. I have a hard time rememberng what I had for lunch yesterday but I can still sing the theme songs from The Bugs Bunny-Rod Runner Hour, The
Because Donald Trump was once host of a reality show called The Apprentice, I was able to meet him on a couple of occasions. Once in his office on the 25th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, but that’s a story for another day. The story below is a little more urgent. Today, Tuesday, November