Boston-based cameraman, Bruins fan and eagle-eyed TV history sleuth Kevin Vahey posted a video on Twitter that dovetails nicely with the podcast I have running this week. The YouTube video shows several commercials and “brought-to-you-by” moments from The Flintstones (1960-’66). The modern stone age family was brought to us by Winston cigarettes, as Flintstones‘ producer
Game Show fans are probably already watching the Jeopardy! Masters tournament, which started Monday on ABC. It features Halifax-native Mattea Roach among the six elite players. She won 23 consecutive games last year — the fifth longest streak in the history of the series. For the past seven decades, up until recently, women could win
One of my earliest memories is the time I accompanied my mother, Margaret Brioux, to the then-brand new CFTO Toronto studio in Agincourt for a taping of the Canadian version of the panel show To Tell the Truth. Mom had enough Lucy Ricardo in her to want to be on game shows. The goal on
Len Goodman, for many years the head judge on Dancing with the Stars, has gone to the big ballroom in the sky. He passed away Sunday, April 23rd, just a few days shy of his 79th birthday. As a young man, the elegant Goodman was an apprentice welder for a famous British shipbuilding company. In
An overnight, estimated audience of 3,413,000 watched CTV’s broadcast of the 95th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night. The Hollywood movie awards gala, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, drew an additional 1,153,000 to the red (or champagne) carpet pre-show on the Canadian broadcaster. In the US, Fast National Live+Same Day data suggests 18.7 million viewers watched the
North America was certainly ready for Laverne & Shirley when the series premiered in 1976. It arrived as the ABC network soared from perennial also-ran status become the No. 1 US network for several years. Powering them there were the breezy comedies created by Garry Marshall, including Happy Days, the series that introduced the characters
When Jimmy Kimmel Live! premiered on January 26, 2003, there was an open bar inside his Hollywood Boulevard studio for studio audience members to enjoy. It must have seemed like a good idea as a way to launch a late night series starring one of the co-hosts of Comedy Central’s The Man Show. It lasted
If you watch just 8:52 seconds of TV today, make it this clip from Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Taped prior to the studio audience’s arrival, the ABC late night host made yet another passionate plea for sanity. This time he spoke directly to lawmakers, who seem deaf to pleas for any kind of gun