Ah, the 80s. If you wanted original programming you had your three networks (until Fox came along at the end of the decade and HBO jumped into original shows around the same time) plus PBS. Nowadays you’d have to go to the likes of the Sci-Fi Channel… oh excuse me, SyFy to see the level [...]
Film and TV actor Robert Culp died today in Los Angeles at the age of 79. For a baby boomers he will always be best known for his role opposite Bill Cosby as a spy in I Spy, a show that broke down televisions race barriers. But to Generation Xies like myself it was his [...]
Bea Arthur, star of groundbreaking sitcoms Maude and The Golden Girls as well as numerous Broadway shows, has died. Tall and deep voiced, the actress born Bernice Frankel in New York found success on and off-Broadway for years after studying acting at the New School for Social Research before TV came calling.
By Noah MallinThere’s been a lot of hubbub here in New York over anchorwoman Sue Simmons and an inadvertent on-air outburst. The iconic television fixture was doing an on-air promo with longtime anchorman Chuck Scarborough when someone did something to prompt her call out of “What the fuck are you doing?” To be fair, Chuck [...]
Pitchfork, not content with wielding the unholy power to force bands like Vampire Weekend down our throats, is launching an all-music Internet TV network. This may sound akin to an all ventriloquism film network on the radio but we hear its the new coming thing. For real. Sez the ‘fork: “In recent years, independent film [...]
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