Because Donald Trump was once host of a reality show called The Apprentice, I was able to meet him on a couple of occasions. Once in his office on the 25th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, but that’s a story for another day. The story below is a little more urgent. Today, Tuesday, November
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Random House). In the introduction to Cue the Sun!, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Emily Nussbaum reveals that in 2003 she told a friend that she wanted to write a book about this new genre called ‘reality TV’. After all, Survivor was a smash hit.
Who doesn’t love Meat Loaf? I met the Grammy Award-winning singer — a.k.a. Michael Lee Aday — in 2016 in London. The burly rock star with the booming voice was there to promote the premiere of a West End musical based on his 1977 rock anthem album Bat Out of Hell — one of the
He leaves Washington today in disgrace, but there was a time when a one-on-one interview with Donald Trump was a pretty good “get.” That was back when the real estate tycoon was best known as the host of The Apprentice. The NBC reality series was a ratings hit when it began in 2004. It remained
Whew! Scrambled back across the border Thursday night before all hell breaks loose! Donald Trump’s latest reality show “Impeached by America” begins Friday morning on all networks. The limited run series features the bombastic New York billionaire being sworn in as President of the United States. There was no joking about this during the just-ended
PASADENA, Calif.–Donald Trump’s not here at the winter TCA press tour but he’s certainly a hot topic. The Republican presidential candidate kept coming up at NBC’s executive session Wednesday morning. Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt had plenty to crow about: Blindspot is the No. 1 new series, The Wiz was up 42% over Peter Pan (Hairspray
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to get my thoughts on the first episode of Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris. The host described it to me several weeks ago in Montreal as seven or eight different shows thrown into a blender and that was pretty accurate. The Tuesday night opener was bright and
Remember all that nonsense about Donald Trump running for president? The Donald put the rumours to rest today in New York at NBC’s annual upfront for advertisers, officially declaring himself out of the race. “I will not be running for President, as much as I’d like to,” he told the crowd gathered at the Hilton