Tag Archives: Television

A pair of MIT students have developed a music sharing system that is in compliance with current copyright law: Keith Winstein and Josh Mandel may soon be the most popular guys on campus. They say they’ve discovered a way to give their fellow students at MIT and elsewhere dorm-room access …

I am certainly not in the 18-24 demographic causing the greatest concern in this NY Times article, but I can tell you this: I have barely missed an inning of the MLB playoffs and World Series, and the unrelenting promos for The New Joe Millionaire and Skin have cumulatively induced …

Not just another Jerry Bruckheimer police procedural drama. . .

The ratings thus far have been great for Fox – I predict the World Series will be less so. The pairing of the Yankees and the Marlins is the worst possible scenario of the original eight teams that began the playoffs: the world is absolutely fed up with the disgusting …

“Up next on Antiques Roadshow: Hitler’s gonads!” When is an “antique” an antique? Meaning, when is an object transformed into a curiosity, stripped of its original context and turned into a product? Like in this case: FEDERAL officials want to know how an Ohio man got hold of a controversial …

The NBC-Universal deal announced on September 2 has officially gone through: Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. have reached an agreement to merge the French company’s Hollywood studio, cable TV networks and theme parks with GE’s NBC business, creating a media giant with about $13 billion in annual revenue. ….The …

Last night’s episode of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, called “Godfathers and Sons,” was a fascinating failure: fascinating because it gave insight into what made Chicago special in the development of the blues, especially the electric blues, and had some great recent and archival performances by Koko Taylor, Howlin’ Wolf, …

There is no way anyone can accuse Martin Scorsese of imposing any kind of uniformity of style of format upon the directors he chose for the seven films that make up his PBS series The Blues. Thus far we’ve had his own fairly straight documentary “Feel Like Going Home” connecting …

Sure, it’s a marketing tsunami, and the “Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues” branding on everything but Robert Johnson’s grave is a bit much. But the films have been tremendous, and the music is even better. After a pause due to the departure of our great friend and colleague Jan Herman, …

Steve was right: last night’s episode of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, “The Road to Memphis,” was fun, powerful and very moving. Director Richard Pearce followed blues superstar B.B. King and mid-level blues veteran Bobby Rush in their respective tour buses as they and other performers converged on Memphis for …