Larry King: Hero or Hypocrite?
Am I the only one who has found all this recent on-air hoopla at CNN surrounding Larry King’s 25th anniversary of his talk show, culminating in King declaring on his show last night that HE has decided to quit “Larry…
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10th BET Awards: A Queen, a Prince and Family
It’s the baby of entertainment industry awards shows. This Sunday, the BET Awards turn 10 years old in ‘10, as the network itself celebrates its 30th year. The show got booted into adulthood last year, when just three days before it…
A Wonderful Father’s Day, Thanks to TV
Yesterday was Father’s Day, and turned out to be a great day to watch sports on TV. Furthermore, if you watched with your kids, a good life lesson came out of it as well. The day started, at least in…
Guest Blog: A Long Time ‘Idol’ Watcher Says that Show is Broken and Needs to be Fixed
This is a guest essay from one of the biggest fans of ‘American Idol" that I know; Judy Pollack, the managing editor at our sibling publication, Advertising Age, where I used to work once upon a time. For as long…
’24’: A Grand Finale or a Missed Opportunity?
The finale of “24” actually began in the waning moments of the episode that aired on May 3rd. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) had just forced double agent Dana Walsh (Katee Sackoff) to give him evidence of the Russians helping in…
‘Lost’ Finale: For Dance 10, Looks 5; and Did It Damage Whatever Future Potential the Franchise Has
So, I’ve already rated last night’s “Lost” finale a 10 emotionally and a 5 narratively … and the 5 was perhaps being generous. Now here’s the billion-dollar question: Did last night’s finale do permanent damage to the LOST brand, or…
The Network Upfront Presentations, Part 2
In my blog yesterday I wrote that I thought the broadcast networks need to share their upfront presentations with their viewers. They can either just broadcast the presentations or publicize how to watch them being streamed on the internet, or…
A Wakeup Call for the Broadcast Networks About Your Upfront Presentations
While many of us in this Twitterized, FiOSed, Facebooked, Comcastic world have noticed that we’re a decade or so into the 21st Century, it appears that the broadcast networks have not. Hey, even old fogies realize that we’re living in…
Betty White’s Golden Moments on ‘SNL’
Betty White didn’t — and couldn’t — physically bound out on stage to take the reins of “Saturday Night Live,” but her highly-rated hosting gig Saturday will go down in history as one of the 35-year old show’s sweetest moments….
Roger Ailes and Fox News: Traitors or Patriots?
There may be a truce of sorts at any given moment, but there’s no doubt that there’s been a war going on between Fox News and the Obama White House. I thought about this on May 1st, during the White…