UncategorizedMy Past Comes Back To Haunt MeI try to avoid reprinting comments except on special occasions, but I have a special fondness for comments about "qualifications"...
UncategorizedCorner Gas Self-Linking, and Rural ComedyToday is Corner Gas finale day, and here’s my piece for the print edition on the success of the series . There wasn’t room in the...
UncategorizedWeekend Viewing: PHENOMJames L. Brooks, the grand old man of American television, was very busy in 1993-4. Not only was he working on a new movie, I’ll...
CultureIt was a gas‘Corner Gas’ is ending after six seasons. Jaime J. Weinman explains why it was such a huge success.
UncategorizedMUSIC: Classical Recording Is Better Than It’s Been In YearsI love classical recording, not just as a way of preserving pieces or performers, but as an art form and a business. (Before...
UncategorizedWhat We’re Watching: NCIS, NCIS and More NCISThe subject heading is an exaggeration, but only slightly. Here’s Nielsen’s list of the top-rated cable programs in the U.S. for...
UncategorizedTwo Years of Intros In Three ClipsPosting will be sporadic for the next few days, so here as filler (tm) is another example of how you can trace a show’s...
UncategorizedFurther proof that HBO is no longer cool?President Obama’s favourite show is ’Entourage’
UncategorizedThe Laughs Are Too Far AwayFollowing up on my post about comedies that have the laughter too distantly miked, ABC’s extremely bland but reasonably-performing...
UncategorizedThe Shocking Truth About Shocking TwistsIs it late enough now that this doesn’t count as a House spoiler? Probably; the episode’s already been everywhere, and even has a...