Those blockheads at ABC have Boomers all a Twitter. They’ve decided not to air A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in prime time on network TV in 2020. Curse you, Disney executive chairman Robert Iger! It’s been 55 years since A Charlie Brown Christmas first charmed kids and parents in
The past seven or eight months have been hard on families all around the world. Folks have been dealing with serious illness and, in way too many cases, the loss of a family member. Then there is mental fatigue, coping with isolation, job loss and relentless uncertainty. Television has largely provided a diversion for the
When I first heard ABC was reviving Supermarket Sweep I thought, is this another sign of the apolcalypse? Is the sight of people running around lunging at groceries really the right way to entertain folks in the midst of double-digit unemployment? The question will be answered Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and
Not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s an election coming up in the United States. There’s even a debate featuring two presidential candidates happening Tuesday night. The November 3 presidential election has been an ugly, partisan pissing match for, what, almost four years it seems. Therefore it’s nice to see something with a little civility
Sunday night’s Emmy Awards were the best Emmys Ever — especially for a Canadian. The so-called “PandEmmys” were over an hour old before anything other than Schitt’s Creek claimed an award. The shot-in-Toronto series swept all the major primetime comedy awards — the first time this has ever happened — on its way to becoming
As we edge towards fall, broadcasters are starting to reveal more about their patched together, pandemic-impacted schedules. Leave it to The Conners then to try to stitch things together. Co-star and executive producer Sara Gilbert went on Good Morning America Thursday and revealed this poster for the upcoming third season of the re-booted sitcom. Featured
As it is with everything else, this is an unusual year for TV networks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing, the major US broadcasters had to cancel their pricey upfront launches in New York in May. Instead of talent and producers doing the annual ad market meet and greet — and in
Today, Thursday May 21, marks the return of ABC’s To Tell the Truth. The game show, hosted by black-ish star Anthony Anderson, is starting its fifth season. Overall, the show has bounced around broadcast network schedules for nerly 30 years. This version boasts Anderson mother, Mama Doris, as a permanent guest judge. It otherwise sticks