Spent Friday in New York on the set of one of my favorite shows on TV, Rescue Me. The scorching, New York firehouse black comedy is produced on a sound stage in Queens, N.Y. Rescue Me has been off air for a year-and-a-half due to the writers strike and is roaring back for a sixth
SYRACUSE, N.Y.–Cinefest wraps up today with a few more surprises–although the biggest bomb was dropped last night outside the screening room.One of the regulars here, an ad sales veteran who has worked in broadcast television for years, happened to mention how hard the economy has hammered local New York TV stations. Case in point: the
Catching up from beautiful downtown Liverpool, N.Y., home of Cinefest 29. People here are buzzed about the Syracuse Orangemen in the March Madness B-ball tourney, president Obama on Leno tonight and a bunch of old films from the `20s and `30s–pretty much in that order.The big gem from the floor of the Liverpool Holiday Inn
Hitting the road for the rest of the week to attend Cinefest 29 in beautiful downtown Liverpool N.Y. This is geek paradise for 16mm film collectors, with wall-to-wall film screenings over the next four days. On the bill: The Lady Who Dared (1931), with Billie Dove, The Darkening Trail (1915) with William S. Hart and,
We asked and you answered. A record 136 readers voted in the latest TVFMF poll, which asked, “Should Geri Hall‘s ‘Single Female Voter’ stop crashing political press conferences on This Hour Has 22 Minutes?”An overwhelming 83% of you said, go Geri, go, keep gooning politicians. Just 16% said cut it out.This Hour Has 22 Minutes
How long has it taken for The Line to get to air? So long that the magazine that assigned me to write about it folded.Which is a bloody shame since The Line is great television and deserves all the coverage it can get. It starts tonight on The Movie Network (10 p.m.) and Movie Central
Will going local save television? It has worked on radio, where local clothing store ads from “the heart of Greektown” seem to run on Toronto’s The Fan and AM640 every eight minutes. Moses Znaimer’s philosophy, when City-TV was his playpen, was it was all about what was happening on your street. Maybe Moses was on
Do casting stunts score in specialty the way they do on broadcast TV?Thursday night’s dust up between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer on The Daily Show shows a mixed reaction. In Canada, The Daily Show scored 138,000 viewers at 11 p.m. on The Comedy Channel, then another 282,000 on CTV at midnight for a combined