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Have TLC Execs Lost Their MFing Minds?!?!?!?
It’s rare when I hear from one particular friend of mine who keeps an extremely busy schedule, what with nonstop travel, an upcoming book and personal obligations including caretaking for her ailing mom. So when she asks me to check out an upcoming reality show, of all things, for my nuanced take, and perhaps some
The Verdict Is: Why?
After more than 30 years since it last aired an original episode, and more than two years after NBC and Warner Brothers announced their intention to revive it, tonight NIGHT COURT is back in session on NBC. To their credit, both entities have gone out of their way to promote it during their more popular
We All Need To Keep Dreaming
Today is Martin Luther King Day, and even though we’re now approaching four decades of its being celebrated on the third Monday in January to commemorate the birth of the famed civil rights leader, a lot of people in my orbit are still surprised when they realize it’s a holiday. Some even snark–Lord, it’s been
He Can Be Your Bodyguard. You Can Call Him Almony*
*–Or, you can call him Bubba. Or Adriano. Or Mr. Almony. Or even Sir. Frankly, my advice would be to call him whatever he’d prefer to call be called. However, if you happen to be the President of the United States, you’d call him a Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and bestow that honor upon him.
If You’re Going To Reopen The Office, You Also Need To Open Your Mind
Bob Iger’s honeymoon return to the CEO helm at Disney became a nightmare for many of its previously overjoyed employees earlier this week when this little missive wound up in inboxes (as reported by Alex Sherman and Sarah Whitten of CNBC.com): Bob Iger told hybrid employees on Monday they must return to corporate offices four
The Mayor Of H-O-L Miscounts Again
Now I’m gonna probably piss off a few people who think I’m yet again shooting myself in the groin by calling out someone who once used to return my calls. Let me state upfront that anything written from this point forward has absolutely nothing to do with any personal history. I’ve long since resolved that
With CBS Local News, It’s Now More Than Meets The Eye
I admit I’m a creature of habit when it comes to certain consumption patterns, and my occasional thirst for local Los Angeles news has been typically quenched with a dose of KCBS-TV’s newscasts, typically middays following THE PRICE IS RIGHT, which I’ve invariably had on for comfort food and background noise even when I worked
These Globes Were Much More Colorful Than Merely Golden
The Golden Globes, which for decades has been the kickoff to an awards season that often championed the more elitist and niche works via a small and easily swayable group of mostly non-American entertainment reporters, returned to NBC and a well-dressed capacity crowd at the Century Plaza hotel last night, Or, as host Jerrold Carmichael
Play Nice, You Kids
Any time you can get competitors to agree upon anything as simple as “it’s raining outside” in this climate, it’s newsworthy. One only needs to look at the sh-tstorm that unfolded in real time in the House of Representatives’ chambers last week as evidence of that unfortunate truth. So when an item like this one