Jan 12, 2021 | Television
I watched Ken Jennings host the first post-Trebek “Jeopardy!” yesterday and thought he did a fine job. He opened with a nice tribute to Alex (above), then got down to the business of the game. Because it has so many moving parts, hosting a game show like...
Dec 24, 2020 | Movies, Television
This may come as a surprise to those who know how much I dislike content with subtitles because they are difficult to watch through my trifocal glasses, constantly raising and lowering my head to view the screen through an appropriate lens. But during the pandemic, as...
Dec 8, 2020 | Radio Business, Television
Forty years ago tonight, millions of Americans learned from Howard Cosell that John Lennon was dead. Cosell made the announcement towards the end of a Dolphins-Patriots game on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” — and I missed it. At the time, I was...
Nov 25, 2020 | Television
“The Accidental Wolf” is a web series from 2017 that was originally produced in eleven smaller chapters, but they’ve been re-packaged as a four-part limited series that debuts tomorrow on Topic, a new streaming service from First Look Media. It stars...
Nov 24, 2020 | Television
There’s an online petition to get LeVar Burton named the new host of “Jeopardy!” While the former “Star Trek: The Next Generation” actor did win a celebrity edition of the game in 1995, and has stated publicly that he’d love the...