On Thursday the folks at CBC Syndication radio asked me to weigh in across their network about the news that, after about half a century on ABC, the Academy Awards will migrate to YouTube in 2029. The deal with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is for five years. I’m not sure how
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