The Academy Awards is one of the most prestigious, and highest-rated, events annually broadcast on television. And the announcement of who will host the show is often much more anticipated, and controversial, than the motion picture nominees. We should know who (or whom) will be hosting the 2017 show any day now – and the […]
Friday, November 18th, 2011 – TV legend Regis Philbin said goodbye to “LIVE” after 28 and a half years. Nearly 8.5 million viewers turned on their TVs at 9am to watch the emotional goodbye (which is still available online). And while that number is only a little more than half of the viewership total for […]
To celebrate Mickey Mouse’s 88th Birthday (this Friday, Nov. 18th) Fathom Events held a sneak preview this past Saturday of the upcoming Disney Junior animated series “Mickey and the Roadster Racers”. The show debuts in January and centers on Mickey and pals Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Pluto and Pete as racecar drivers, with the most […]
I’ve always been interested in the world of late night TV, from Johnny Carson & Joey Bishop (obviously way before my time) to the final years of Letterman and the Leno/O’Brien & Leno/Fallon escapades (I was on with Jay a couple of times in between). Currently, I’m watching episodes of the late Garry Shandling’s 90s […]
The elevator pitch: “Jack Bauer is the President.” And with that, ABC executives were instantly hooked. The most anticipated (and promoted) new show of the Fall 2016 TV season was the network’s political drama “Designated Survivor”, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a low-level cabinet member who, following a bombing of the U.S. Capitol building during the State of […]
We’re less than a week away from the culmination of the wildest Election period of my lifetime (and I was two years old in 2000). It’s also the first year I will be voting. But I’ve been casting votes on, and helping determine the fate of, films for over 10 years. Here are my favorite […]
Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s “Da Vinci Code” threequel, “Inferno”, stunningly lost at the box office to “Boo! A Madea Halloween” (in its 2nd week) over the weekend. “Inferno” becomes this year’s latest unsuccessful attempt to bring a fading or forgotten movie franchise back to life: “ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE” Previous Installment: “Ice Age: Continental […]
In the late 80s, Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford changed the face of daytime television with a formula that has since been copied, altered and stolen by just about everyone. The idea that two people could carry-on a twenty-minute conversation about what they did last night and current events is what made “LIVE! with […]
The Golden Trailer Awards honor the best – and worst – in theatrical movie previews. But they’re held in May, an odd time of the year for an awards show. Now that trailers have been made for practically every film set to open for the rest of 2016, and since we are heading into the actual […]
So many films this year have involved the dysfunctional relationships of family members, from siblings to spouses, aunts, uncles, cousins and children. Keeping all these movies straight and describing them to others can be tricky and complicated. So, as a public service, I have condensed the plots of 30 these 2016 movies down to one-sentence […]