CultureThe secret to Susan Boyle’s successOther reality stars (think Adam Lambert, Kris Allen) try to be originals. Boyle knows better.
UncategorizedGo Anywhere With a Click of a MouseVia Lee Goldberg , this video gives us a look at the way today’s TV shows use green-screen to turn the studio and the backlot into...
UncategorizedA Handy-Dandy List of Jokes That Aren’t JokesThis post by Nickelodeon TV producing guru Dan Schneider (who also played Dennis on Head of the Class , which means that all his...
UncategorizedGood Cheer and Bad MusicTime to get some Christmas episodes up here, preferably with no connection to A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life . So...
UncategorizedTHE WIRE: Ambition and LimitationDavid Simon interviews always have something interesting in them, because the guy doesn’t talk like a Hollywood screenwriter...
UncategorizedChuck Lorre Wants Critics To Hate Him AgainWhen Chuck Lorre received a critics’ award for The Big Bang Theory , he seemed as amazed as everyone at the change in his critical...
UncategorizedDick Tracy, He’s a Good Cop, or "The Plot To Kill NATO"Someone has finally uploaded the unsold "Dick Tracy" pilot made by Batman producer William Dozier in 1967. (I previously posted...
UncategorizedMy Guest Comments On Someone Else’s ListTodd VanDerWerff was nice enough to invite me onto his podcast where he and his wife Libby listed "the top 10 comedies of the...
CultureThe man who loves Porgy and BessAn Austrian Bach specialist fulfills a 40-year dream: a recording of Gershwin’s ‘folk opera’
UncategorizedHappy Beethoven’s Birthday!It’s also Jane Austen’s birthday, but being a Jane Austen fan is kind of tough in this day and age, and I prefer to wait until she...