Being Erica is Like Quantum Leap, But Don’t Call It a FantasyThe CBC must really want Being Erica to be a hit , based on the Subway Station Test: the harder a network is trying to promote a...
The Tale Of The Mismanaged Cartoon CatalogueCartoon Network in the U.S. surprised many viewers (pleasantly) by airing a New Year’s marathon of Looney Tunes -- not Baby Looney...
Happy Viennese New Year!While waiting for the annual TV broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert , conducted this year by Daniel Barenboim...
Anyone can whistle; only Zune owners have toApparently every 30-gig Zune mp3 player in the world is freezing up . I asked Peter Van Loan and he said it’s Dalton McGuinty’s...
MUSIC: One of another kindNobody ever played more trumpet than Freddie Hubbard , in the sense of a guy picking the horn up the way a very angry bulldog...
Just Respond To The Question, TV CharactersWe all can name certain types of scenes that we don’t like, or are usually hard for us to sit through. I was reminded of one of...
An Obvious But Entertaining Riff On A Famous Showbiz MomentOkay, I know jokes about Shatner’s "Rocket Man" have kinda jumped the shark (now that you’ve got dozens of commenters on YouTube...
Why Networks Prefer To Own The Shows They ProduceI mentioned a while back that CBS’s success with comedy has been achieved entirely with shows that are produced by outside...
Best on TV — 2008 EditionBest non-romantic relationship Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) on The Big Bang Theory . He’s an asexual scientific...