On Thursday the folks at CBC Syndication radio asked me to weigh in across their network about the news that, after about half a century on ABC, the Academy Awards will migrate to YouTube in 2029. The deal with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is for five years. I’m not sure how
TV critics, like everyone else, sometimes get caught down rabbit holes. This morning I was on with Humble & Fred Radio (except I was speaking with “Humble” Howard Glassman and Maureen Holloway; she sitting in this month for regular co-host Fred Patterson). Howard, who assumed I had seen it, asked for a quick description of
Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the original Peanuts gang have survived nerly 60 years in television. The original animated half-hour holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, premiered on Dec. 23, 1965. I was eight that Christmas and already a devoted Peanuts follower. I used to clip Charle’s Schultz’s comic strip out of the Toronto Star
Paris Hilton turns 40 in February. This will shake some of us who remember her as the “celebutante” who never heard of Wal-Mart. She said things such as, “That’s hot!” a lot at the start of the century on a momentary object of fascination known as The Simple Life. She has stuck around and made
One of the advantages and disadvantages of being cooped up in our own homes all day now is the amount of time spend in front of screens on the Internet. It’s just too easy to get lost down rabbit holes, whether it is listening to music videos or podcasts or checking out old video clips
Sandra, my co-isolater here in the Brampton Bunker, happened upon a familiar face earlier today in her quest for YouTube gold — Graham Kerr. Way back in the late ’60s, the jovial Englishman shot to fame as host of the Ottawa-based cooking show The Galloping Gourmet. Now 86 and living in a retirement community in
PASADENA, Calif. — There are so many streaming on demand services out there these days its easy to overlook the one we’ve all been watching for years — YouTube. The media company presented Saturday morning at press tour and there were several announcements about their programming. Their 2019 slate of shows had three billion views.
TV is expanding at such a rapid pace there’s just no time left for a TV critic to even type! That’s one reason I’m posting more and more video reviews here — shot in my car between errands. WIth Disney and Apple launching even more content in a week, these drive by reviews are the