I was asked on my first of several interviews upon hearing the news of Matthew Perry’s passing if there were any signs he would leave us so young. There were, of course, nothing but signs. There have been actors I’ve spoken with in the past who have died even younger, such as Cory Monteith from
How into TV from the ’80s is Jimmy Kimmel? He’s this into it as he told reporters last week in a conference call for Live From in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes (airing Tuesday on ABC). “Many years ago, Gary Coleman was selling a pair of his pants
Scott Thompson asks, “Can they ever do these things right?” The Global News Radio host was talking about Friends: The Reunion, now streaming on HBO Max in the US and on Crave in Canada. The Hamilton, Ont., based broadcaster had heard all about the cast getting back together after 17 years but, when we spoke
I was not a big fan of Friends. The NBC sitcom ran 10 seasons and 234 episodes from 1994 through 2004. I maybe saw 10 of them, six all the way through. It just wasn’t my jam. I liked the theme song by The Rembrandts, and how they would switch up the visuals in the
Do people really care that the six actors who starred in Friends are getting back together to make an infomercial to set up the sale of the series to the upcoming streaming service HBO Max? There were reports Friday that Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will earn between three
My take on Sunday night’s 77th Annual Golden Globes? I liked host Ricky Gervais’ nasty, grumpy edge. He has to say things that are beyond wrong at this stage just to top himself. Slamming Felicity Huffman for making license plates and Martin Scorsese for being short are just jokes. The peevish blast at Apple for
One would almost need another full year to see enough of the TV shows released in 2019 in order to pick the best 10. The launch of AppleTV+, Disney+, the continuing content splurge from Netflix and other streamers and the latest from HBO kept us binging through eye strain for a full 12 months. Full
If you have read any reviews of The Morning Show that slams it as the next Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, ignore them. The $300 million (over two seasons), flagship drama of the new Apple TV+ streaming service is frothy good drama that gets better and better with every episode. This is not to