UncategorizedA Great Canadian Trilogy: Zoodles, Alpha-Getti and Dino-Getti2009 is, among many other things, the 25th anniversary of the Libby’s Zoodles commercial. (Assuming it really did start in 1984...
UncategorizedSome Canada Day TV MomentsFirst of all, let me say that I actually approve of the name "Canada Day." Well, "approve" may not be the right word. Let’s say I...
UncategorizedAn Important Influence On MJWhile trying to think of something appropriate to say for Canada Day (something between "go, Canada!" and Robertson Davies’...
UncategorizedWanna Take Bests On How Much Longer It Will Take To Seat Al Franken?Update: Coleman just conceded. I guess he does plan to run for office in Minnesota again after all. The Minnesota Supreme Court...
UncategorizedSay Goodbye To Bobby Wheeler and Hello To TAXI Season 4Well, it’s about damn time: Taxi, Season 4 will be released on DVD, four years after the release of season 3. This will mean that...
UncategorizedA Sitcom Scene With And Without Music and "Sweetening"One thing you rarely get to hear with TV comedies is an "unsweetened" version. That is, a version that doesn’t have any of the...
UncategorizedWhat Is the Most Padded TV Episode You’ve Ever Seen?One theme I return to a lot is how episode length shapes the TV episodes we see: half-hour storytelling is different with 21...
UncategorizedYet Another Celebrity Death: Gale StormAt this rate, the rule of celebrity deaths will have to be altered to "they come in fives." (Let’s knock wood that there aren’t...
UncategorizedBilly Mays Dead, This Has Now Officially Been Most Depressing Week EverAnother celebrity is unexpectedly dead in (sorry: Tampa) at the age of 50. This time it’s Billy Mays, the most famous and prolific...
UncategorizedIt’s Garry Shandling On DVD!Wonderful news, even better that the whole show will be coming out as one complete-series set . (It’ll be expensive, but I doubt...