Vintage TV Promo Of The Day
Thanks to Stu Shostak, here's a CBS promo for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" promoting its fifth and final season in the fall of 1965. Notice the emphasis on physical humor rather than characters and jokes. By the way, a heads up in case you want to watch any of its...
Random Thoughts
My wife and I binge-watched the second season of "Ozark" this weekend. Jason Bateman and Julia Garner continue to be very good, Janet McTeer is perfect as the cartel's powerful attorney, but the season belongs to Laura Linney, who I once called the best actress of her...
Worth A Link
These stories came across my desktop this week, and I had to share them with you... If you’re a Catholic who ever put any money into the collection plate at church, do you want it back after the new allegations of over 1,000 more victims of pedophile priests?...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
"Watching this show is like observing someone commit a crime, sentence themselves to community service, then try to get credit for their commitment to good works as if they never did anything wrong in the first place."That's a line from Jen Chaney's hysterically...
Game Show Memories
The other night, my wife and daughter and I browsed through YouTube for episodes of old TV game shows. We saw "Concentration" from 1958 with Hugh Downs as host, and a later 1970s version with Alex Trebek in a polo shirt, not a suit. Next I tracked down a "To Tell The...
Well, I’ve Told This Story Before
I have mentioned that I'm a fan of the Sundance Channel's "Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter," with Lacey Rose asking questions of a roundtable of television actors or Stephen Galloway doing the same with a roundtable of movie actors. I also enjoy listening to...
Random Thoughts
I am finally getting around to binge-watching “The Americans,” the FX series that just ended after five seasons. I remember checking out the first episode when it aired and not being impressed enough to continue, but on second viewing I was hooked. I became even more...
Streaming Suggestion: “Shetland”
If you're looking for a streaming show to binge-watch, my wife and I suggest the BBC series "Shetland," which is now on Netflix. Based on a series of novels by Ann Cleeves, it takes place on the Shetland Islands in Scotland, where Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez has...