When the network having the most successful fall season announces serious changes in its winter schedule, you pay attention. CBS revealed today some interesting changes for early 2011, including: giving Tom Selleck's successful Friday drama Blue Bloods... Read More
For a kid weaned on Star Trek and Lost in Space, it was like snagging a seat on the Starship Enterprise. Fumbling with the knob to my brand-new game of Pong, I was the envy of my mid-'70s neighborhood, mesmerized by the promise of firing up a game just... Read More
You know it's the end of the year in entertainment-land by the lists. It's easy work for us critics who are already halfway headed toward Christmas vacation. But it's also great fun to look back over a year of snarky cheap shots and find a way to take ... Read More
Want to know how tough the network TV game can be? While the new anchors taking over CBS’ Early Show next month toured St. Petersburg affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10 today, taking questions from staffers and trying to spark enthusiasm for the change, Tampa... Read More
This is the delicate dance which goes on when big corporations want public approval for controversial actions. The NAACP, National Urban League and Al Sharpton's National Action Network have announced an agreement with Comcast and NBC Universal to boos... Read More
Just learned I'm scheduled to talk about Larry King's final show tonight on PBS' NewsHour, which airs at 7 p.m. here in the Tampa Bay area on WEDU-Ch. 3. Though plans always change, I'm slated to go on about halfway through the show to examine his lega... Read More
Next week, I'll be working light and posting lots of my best of lists, but this one was too good to wait. Here's proof why Jimmy Fallon will be receiving my Most Underrated award for 2010: a slow jamming the news segment featuring NBC Nightly News... Read More
The call came from a longtime employee at WFLA-Ch. 8 who was so angry the words came spilling out, a river of anger and resentment over a management decision that seemed like a swift kick when things were already down. This was the fourth phone call I'... Read More
It may be hard to remember now, amid all the jokes about his age, multitude of wives and softball questions, but there was a time when Larry King was the biggest star on cable television, period. That was back when CNN had no competition, as the ... Read More
Considering how Facebook is rewriting the rules for media and social interaction, it's hard to dispute TIME magazine choosing the social network's 20-something wunderkind founder Mark Zuckerberg as its person of the year (and could they have chosen a w... Read More
