It’s May sweeps, which means season finales, plenty of guest stars and cross over stunts. Two happen tonight, and they’re both damn intriquing. First, CSI and Two And A Half Men flip script writers, a cool idea given one is a dramatic police drama and the other is a studio audience sitcom. Most weeks they
It was 50 years ago today that Wayne & Shuster made their first of what would stand as a record 67 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.If you are asking a) what’s a Wayne & Shuster b) who was Ed Sullivan and c) is Brioux, what, 100?, here are a few answers for you, wise
ORLANDO, Fla. —Miley Cyrus finally stuck her head out of that deep hole Disney had put her in this week–meaning six more weeks of world wide publicity.The 15-year-old Hannah Montana star, who has been at the centre of a controversy ever since her arty Vanity Fair photo shoot surfaced last week, joined several other Disney
Steve Allen may have invented late night, but by the time I spoke with him in 1992, at the age of 71, he rarely watched it anymore. This excerpt from that conversation was unearthed for a book on late night TV I am in the process of writing. If you missed Part One of my
This week, on my regular radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson, the topics include the premiere of a new reality series that screams “end of civilization as we know it.” Yes, that would be Farmer Wants A Wife, which oinks onto the schedule tonight at 9 on The CW.You can listen to the farm report
Global execs climbed back in from their window ledges (never shoulda moved to that Toronto high rise on Bloor Street) after House returned strong last night in Canada. The medical drama scored 2.1 million viewers nationally Monday night, giving Global their first 2 million topper not named Survivor in months.Global likes to break things down
Over the past few months, there have been plenty of shout outs here about my book, Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths. It is available at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble, thanks for asking. My publisher, Greenwood Publishing in Connecticut, is anxious to see some copy for my next book,
“This is just another case of immigrants taking jobs that Americans don’t want.” That was new U.S. citizen Craig Ferguson’s take on hosting Saturday’s White House Correspondent’s dinner. The (single!) C-SPAN camera captured it all; here are the highlights: Ferguson and Bush–one recovering alcoholic roasting another. The Glasgow-native snuck plenty of blunt talk into his