I don’t think I ever met anyone who had a bad word to say about David Onley. The Citytv television journalist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario died January 15 in Toronto. He was 72. Onley was stricken with Polio at the age of three, resulting in partial paralysis. Starting his on-camera career in 1984
The NBC western Bonanza ended a thirteen-and-a-half season run on this date in January of 1973 – 50 years ago today. I was reminded of the milestone by someone who should know: Andrew J. Klyde, archivist, historian and attorney for Bonanza Ventures which controls merchandising and licensing worldwide for the series. Bonanza had been one
Barbara Walters was a one-person powerhouse on network television for so many decades, dating back to the 1950s. Then, in 2014, after steering The View to impressive daytime ratings for over a dozen years, she retired and completely stepped out of the spotlight. The reports of her death Friday in New York at 93, therefore,
Say kids, what time is it? It is time to celebrate Howdy Doody’s 75th anniversary. Broadcast network television’s first Monday to Friday series and first regularly scheduled colour series launched during a winter snowstorm in New York on December 27, 1947. There were approximately 15,000 to 20,000 television sets within reach of NBC’s signals along
Happy Boxing Day to all. If you are still looking for one last present to unwrap, check out the American Masters “Groucho & Cavett” episode premiering Tuesday night on PBS. I’ve written about this before here at brioux.tv and even had the great joy of interviewing late-night Hall of Famer Dick Cavett at brioux.tv: the
The older I get, the more TV and film stars from my youth are singled out in the anual TCM Remembers year-end videos. This year, Larry Storch from F-Troop — who lived to be 99 — is among the clips, as is Pat Carroll, a Danny Thomas Show regular and frequent talk and game show
Tuesday, January 12, 2005 was not a red letter day in the history of the Television Critics Association. On that day, a press panel was held for the Showtime series Fat Actress. The title character was played by Kirstie Alley, who died Monday following a short battle with cancer. She was 71. Alley’s big show
Imagine if this fall CBS or Netflix or anybody had launched a sitcom about a group of office workers in one of the upper floors of the World Trade Center — and had set it in the year 2001. No one would dare, right? Yet, in 1965, just twenty years after the end of World