May 12 2012
Say it ain’t so! Alex Trebek, 71, last week hinted that he’s leaning toward retirement, that he’ll soon ask his last question in the form of an answer.
That would be a shame, given that “Jeopardy!,” on Trebek’s 28-year watch, has not only been a quality...
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May 06 2012
If ever we needed a living, breathing, spouting symbol of our world gone nuts, we’re blessed to have such a man in the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Twenty-five years after serving as the TV point man and center-stager in the dastardly Tawana Brawley hoax — a credibility killer by even minimal...
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Apr 29 2012
I always liked Dick Clark as a TV host — of music and dance shows, of game shows, of New Year’s Eve shows from Times Square.
But it was only after his 2004 stroke that slowed and impaired his speech when I came to admire him. As long as he...
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Apr 21 2012
With Mike Wallace’s death 16 days ago, the predictable salutes to him and CBS’ “60 Minutes” as together synonymous with the best that TV journalism could, can, and may ever offer now seems a matter of historical fact.
Yet, “60 Minutes” took many dives throughout the Wallace years, and...
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Apr 15 2012
Keith Olbermann’s ex-bosses all eventually sound like ex-boat owners, those who say that the second best day of their lives is when they bought a boat, but their best day is when they sold it.
Actually, though, if Olbermann plays his cue cards right, he has a strong case...
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Apr 07 2012
To apply politics-based sorrow or glee to Keith Olbermann’s latest expulsion from his latest network — and he’d been hired to be the star of Current TV — is a waste of sentiment.
Olbermann would be a first-class pain in the butt regardless of what flavor, shade or pattern he...
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Apr 01 2012
Apiece in last week’s Post written by business reporter Claire Atkinson pointed to diving overall ratings among Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central and MTV, the latter three networks all fighting for mostly the same crowd — teens and young adults.
No problem. TV execs have been confronted by such problems before...
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Mar 25 2012
As the application of common sense continues to be deemed a politically inappropriate position to demonstrate — at least in public — it stands to reason that the more we learn, the less we know — or at least are supposed to know.
In the last month, we have been besieged by TV...
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Mar 17 2012
The surprising, even shocking news came in two pieces.
1) Comcast, the Philadelphia-based new ownership of NBC, is not renewing the contract of 30-year WNBC-Ch. 4 news anchor and beloved face of New York, Sue Simmons.
Whoa! Why, those no good, just-off-the-train sons of guns! Have they no respect for...
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Mar 10 2012
Perhaps we aren’t supposed to remember. Or, perhaps, we’re no longer supposed to care.
The actor Matthew Broderick is now starring in a series of Honda auto TV commercials. And that could inspire some of us to ask whether Broderick is forced to do so because he’d...
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