Think of Phil Donahue as the Norman Lear of daytime talk shows. The popular daytime talk show host passed away Aug. 18 after a lengthy illness. He was 88. Dating back to when the War in Vietnam was raging and Women’s and Civil Rights movements were prime fodder on evening newscasts, broadcasters generally looked the
How lucky am I to have a conversation with Bill Persky, the Emmy-winnng writer-producer of, among many other things TV-related, The Dick Van Dyke Show. The spry 89-year-old New Yorker is the latest guest on brioux.tv: the podcast. (Listen now at the link above.) He’s pretty sure that he is the last remaining writer from
Did you know that there were horrible remakes made of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Christmas in Conneticuit”? And that one was made in the ’70s and one in the ’90s? Yes, nothing is sacred at Christmastime, even evergreen originals. One just has to look at all the horrifying re-boots of Dr. Seuss’ How the