Tom Fontana was one of the writers for St Elsewhere and working with Barry Levinson and his team, he wrote and produced Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, The Jury and a bevy of quality shows. Next week, the team of Fontana, Levinson and Adam Bernstein will be bringing a program to the WB called The Bedford Diaries, starring Matthew Modine. My ( Read more... )

There's just so many ways to go with this story, it's not funny ( Read more... )

I was watching CNN Pipeline on Friday, when a story about a fellow who stole a $1300 designer dog from a Florida pet store by stuffing it in his pants, ran in the main window. As a blogger that likes to comment on the esoteric, I took issue with a quote from a random customer; "It's like taking a child. You wouldn't want a child to be stolen and I ( Read more... )

I have a few tv-related items to pass along and due to the brevity of each, I'm going to throw them into a heap.

• I wasted a few hours the other evening watching some of the first offerings from AOL's In2TV. I didn't register for their HQ service. It is free, but I'm hard-pressed to understand the advantage. If it'd get me a standalone player, I ( Read more... )

If I run across any random Olympics-themed links, I'll edit them into this post for at least the next few days and if anyone has any addresses that they'd like to add or share, you are welcome to use this post's "comments".

• NBC announced this afternoon that they are going to webcast complete runs and routines for all Americans via their NBC ( Read more... )

When Bob Iger was first named to succeed Micheal Eisner, I posted how I was a member of the Roy Disney camp and couldn't think of another public figure with the imagination to replace Uncle Walt, other than Steve Jobs. As you are undoubtedly aware, the deal was just finalized between Pixar and Disney which makes Mr Jobs their largest stockholder ( Read more... )

This morning I linked to the Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram which is the largest daily paper in north-central West Virginia. At the time, I noted that they have a tendency to not update until midday, though it is a morning paper, but now I see that other than their in-house feature columnists and the obituaries, nothing has been updated since ( Read more... )

"Pray." It was the one word suggestion by the president of the mining company, when asked by a reporter if there was anything he'd like to say to the viewers at home during the 5AM (EST) press availability. I'll have to say that to this untrained eye, things aren't looking very good. Thus far and contrary to some of what's being reported from the ( Read more... )

CNN's Pipeline has now been around for a week and previously I offered a few suggestions. This morning, I'd like to add two more;

• I was very disappointed that it was mostly blank for the weekend. I realize the target audience are those at work, but with the proliferation of residential broadband, it'd be nice to have some type of offering other than ( Read more... )

Every night during the late, local news, the deep-voiced announcer says over a bumper; "If you see news happening call KOB-TV". On the station's website is form for news tips and an address to send digital photos. During Hurricane Ophelia, WRAL-TV collected photos of the destruction and put them in a slideshow which they have archived for perpetual ( Read more... )