My editor suggested, if I was having trouble coming up with ideas about what to write, that I note that the new CBS prime-time show, Supergirl, will air at eight o’clock Eastern time on Mondays when it starts this fall… up against Gotham on Fox. The assumption, when he mentioned this to me last week,…
It’s the fifth and final season for the SyFy supernatural show, LOST GIRL. Series star Anna Silk talks about her favorite moments (and the things she grabbed from the set on the last day) plus BITTEN’s Laura Vandervoort talks more about her show’s new season and what it was like to be TV’s first Supergirl….
Years ago, there was a CBS miniseries, Chiefs, based on the Stuart Woods novel and featured a murder mystery that spanned the years, embroiling three different police chiefs. In 1983, it ran for three nights and I was captivated. When HBO debuted True Detective with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in January, I was immediately…
Growing up, Saturday morning television meant cartoons and nothing but cartoons. By the 1970s, though, live-action bits crept in, starting with Christopher Glenn’s In the News interstitials on CBS along with silly things like The Banana Splits and H.R. Puffenstuff. In 1974, though, Filmation cleverly blended the two as it took the Big Red Cheese…
It’s been a pretty eventful few weeks on the CBS series, PERSON OF INTEREST. We talk to cast members abut their reactions to those events and where the show may be headed for the rest of the season. Plus WALKING DEAD finishes up big and Robert Downey Jr. hit Crackle. THE POINT covers it 24/7!…
The second season of NBC’s GRIMM has turned the characters upside down, especially “Juliette” played by Bitsi Tulloch. She fills us in on how it all happened – and what’s coming up on the show when it returns in 2013. Plus CBS’ PERSON OF INTEREST is a Top 5 rated show which has been a…
We are losing some good shows this television season, not the least of which is NBC’s 30 ROCK. We talk to Jack McBrayer (Kenneth) and EP Robert Carlocke about how they are making the exit graceful, plus Stan Lee is gonna sue somebody and CBS fires the first “cancelled” bullet. We cover NEW YORK COMIC…
Prime time television in the 1950s and 1960s was packed with family situation comedies, including Hanna-Barbera’s takes on The Honeymooners in the form of The Flintstones and The Jetsons. By the dawn of the 1970s, those situation comedy tropes began to permeate Saturday morning cartoons as funny animal and super-heroic fare began to wane. Then…
It’s a different kind of cop show with a bawdy, rough redhead who not only doesn’t want the job but is blessed (or cursed) with the ability to remember everything she every sees. Poppy Montgomery stars in the CBS series UNFORGETTABLE winding up it’s first season on a ratings high. She dishes on what we…
Reposted from www.tainted-archive.blogspot.com CBS has greenlighted a pilot, a revamp of Sherlock Holmes, that will place the legendary sleuth in modern-day New York. The pilot, currently titled “Elementary,” comes via CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly Productions, the company behind the network’s current series “A Gifted Man” and “Unforgettable.” Robert Doherty, whose credits include “Medium” and…
We knew this was coming and finally, here are the details: LOS ANGELES – The beloved series STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® will be transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray™, it was announced today by Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Home Entertainment. All…
On October 20, 1951, CBS unveiled its Eye Device logo, better known as the CBS Eye. It was created by William Golden, theoretically based on a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign as well as a Shaker drawing. The following season, as Golden prepared a new “ident”, CBS President Frank Stanton insisted on keeping the Eye device…
