This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to ask my take on the Oscars. We went on to gab for over 16 minutes and completely ignored the awards talk. Instead we got sidetracked yakking about last week’s epic Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special. I got a call this week from my colleague Bill Carter who, in 1975
NEW YORK–I’m in Manhattan this week to interview the cast of Mozart in the Jungle, a new drama coming later this month to Amazon Prime and early in the New Year in Canada to shomi. It’s kinda Fame meets Girls meets Smash, starring a mix of veterans such as Malcolm McDowall and Bernadette Peters as
Best wishes to my buddy Bill Carter who announced today he is taking advantage of a generous buyout being offered by The New York Times. After distinguishing himself at the Baltimore Sun, Carter spent over 25 years covering television at The Times. Over that time he penned four books that are pretty much required reading for those of
Colbert (right) in a 2011 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman Bill Carter has told me for at least two years that Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman. On Thursday, CBS made it official. As Carter, the author of The War for Late Night as well as The Late Shift, would point out, Colbert
NEW YORK–Some of Manhattan’s best dressed matrons were squealing and carrying on like Justin Bieber fans Thursday night in a salute to Downton Abbey. A screening of the fourth season premiere, which will air January 5th on PBS, was held at the New York Times Building Lobby Auditorium. After the screening, Times columnist Bill Carter
NBC officially fired the gun on Jay Leno’s victory lap, announcing Wednesday that the No. 1 guy in late night will step away from The Tonight Show–this time presumably for good–next February. “JAY LENO ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE FROM SUCCESSFUL 22 YEAR RUN FROM NBC’S ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ IN SPRING 2014” reads the network release headline. Two