Tag Archives: Television

What in the name of bombastic pricks everywhere do people see in Donald Trump? Is humorless self-aggrandizement really that amusing? Are we to admire asshole businessmen for being asshole businessmen? Usually when non-performers host Saturday Night Live, they set aside their egos – Rudy Giulliani, John McCain and Al Sharpton …

Viacom is planning to launch a new gay channel: Mr Redstone said he was in discussions with cable operators over a gay and lesbian service. At the launch for the new Latin VH1 channel in Mexico City, he said the gay network would be “a good channel for them, and …

Cooke just recently retired from his “Letters From America” show on the BBC after 58 years – hasty he was not: Veteran BBC broadcaster and writer Alistair Cooke has died at his home in New York. ….Leading the tributes, Prime Minister Tony Blair described him as “a remarkable man” and …

24 returns - and is once more back on track.

The drop off in television viewing among young men appears to be a trend that is not going to reverse: Note to the television networks: Pete Brandel is not missing. He’s right here, but like a lot of other 20-something men he’s just not watching as much TV. Mr. Brandel, …

And that dominatrix looks really familiar, too.

I am becoming a bit less sanguine about the new “zero tolerance” broadcast atmosphere. Yesterday the FCC went pretty nuts with the fines and the condemnations: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday overruled its staff and declared that an expletive uttered by rock star Bono on NBC last year was …

I’m really sad to hear about original MTV VJ J.J. Jackson dying. I can’t believe J.J. Jackson was 62! That means he was almost 40 when he was a VJ. So anyway, I’m sad – what a voice that guy had: Jackson, a longtime radio station disc jockey, died of …

Led by excellent and entertaining ongoing reviews by Scott Pepper and the Raging Critic, we are accumulating a very thorough look at American Idol – Season 3, whose popularity appears to be slowing not a whit: Wither American Idol? For three seasons, American Idol has been Fox’s top rated show, …

The U.S. Census Bureau offers a tribute to the 50th anniversary of color TV: It was described as “the wonderful world of color” in the title of an early television program. On March 25, 1954, the Radio Corporation of America began to manufacture color television sets at its Bloomington, Ind., …