Always loved this Larry Fritz illustration, which graced the cover of TV Guide for the week of December 24, 1955–exactly 55 years ago today. Back when signals were pulled in from all over on rooftop antennas–for free. Apparently they still work. Off to Cloverdale to start my shopping. For those of you not wrapping gifts tonight by the Yule
When it comes to Christmas and television, Diane Werts literally wrote the book. (“Christmas on Television”; order your copy here.) Not only does the TV Worth Watching editor know all about the various holiday specials and TV movies made over the years, but today on Facebook (shouldn’t it have been on Twitter?) she posted the above clip from this
TCM always does such a beautiful job with their end of the year “In Memoriam” videos. As you can see above, this year is no exception. An eye opener, thanks to some clever scene selections, is that three people in “Airplane” passed away in 2010–Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley and Leslie Nielsen. Don’t fret that Blake Edwards
Roger Abbott, unidentified fan and Don Ferguson at Friday’s Air Farce taping “At least we know this is one way to get into your blog.” That was Roger Abbott’s very perceptive crack as the above photo was snapped at Friday night’s taping of the Air Farce New Year’s Eve special. The taping took place at a
Crazed buzz boy at Yellowknife site of Ice Pilots NWT Hats off to History Television. After a nudge or two from this corner, they announced today they are moving the Season Two premiere of their top domestic series, Ice Pilots NWT–along with the premiere of their new Ice Road Truckers spinoff–back a week from Jan.
YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.: Where to go to escape the snow and ice of Brampton, Ont.? Yellowknife, of course.I’m back visiting the mad men and women of Ice Pilots, NWT, the most successful Canadian debut ever on History Television. The series opened last year to 459,000 viewers. It is currently scheduled to take off for a second
Cast member Scott Grimes, co-creators Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman and Seth MacFarlane Today I’m at Toronto’s Pearson airport, en route to Yellowknife, Ice Pilots NWT country. The History Television series returns for a second season in January. Hey, any excuse to jump back into a DC3.All this flying to eventually go flying means I’ll miss tonight’s
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Carrie Fisher shot to fame as Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars.” I remember being completely caught up in the fun of that movie in the summer of ’77. The floating car and all those Cabana critters were cool, as were those nimble cross-wing fighters. Fisher made a