With Father’s Day just around the corner, TV is gearing up for various salutes to dear ole dad and I thought it only made sense to focus on some of the best dads on TV. But the big problem was deciding how far back in TV history to travel to pick the best dads. After all there was Jim Anderson ... Read More »

This Thursday NBC will debut the new Canadian medical drama Saving Hope, which stars Michael Shanks (of Stargate: SG-1 fame) as Charlie Harris the Chief of Surgery at Toronto’s Hope-Zion Hospital who, after a car crash, ends up in a coma. He soon finds out that he can roan the hospital in spirit form while his fiancé (and fellow surgeon) ... Read More »

This weekend (June 1-3rd) I will be in Austin, Texas with many other TV fans for the inaugural ATX Television Festival and I am so excited! The ATX Festival is the first festival dedicated to all things television. TV fans and industry professionals will be coming together this weekend to celebrate Television shows past, current and future.   The event ... Read More »

While summer doesn’t technically begin until June 20, the summer TV season will actually start in full force next week, bringing TV viewers plenty of programming to enjoy. Where once summer was a wasteland of repeats and burn-off episodes of TV shows that the networks just didn’t deem “good enough” for airing during the fall TV season, networks now provide ... Read More »

The season finale is here and it’s the big opening night of “Bombshell” – but the bigger issue is who is playing Marilyn? Well, as the episode opens, Julia and Tom are going over the new song they need for the new ending of the musical. As the finally figure it out, with 15 minutes to spare before the curtains ... Read More »

It’s upfronts week. What does that mean, you may ask? Well, for anyone who follows the TV industry, upfronts week means the week when all of the networks – both major and cable – make their annual presentations to the New York advertisers. What do the networks hold the upfronts? Well, they make grand presentations of their existing and new ... Read More »

The big day is here for the cast and creative team of “Bombshell”. It is their opening night of previews in Boston; but first, there is some behind-the-scenes drama to get through first such as Dev sleeping with Ivy – and their subsequent hiding that fact from EVERYONE; Ivy being pissed at Derek for his paying too much “attention” to ... Read More »

Next week the major networks will make their presentations to the New York advertisers, which simply means to TV viewers that we will finally find out what show are coming back and which ones will disappear. Granted, all of the networks have already announced many early renewals for their existing dramas and comedies; but the decisions on the shows that ... Read More »

I’m covering both episodes in this article, because real life got in my way this week. Apologies, I hope I do them both justice. “The Debate” Leslie winning a political debate – slam dunk, right? Well, I think you know where this is going. The whole half hour focused on Leslie and her showdown with Bobby Newport. The fact that ... Read More »

Things with the “Bombshell” production have moved along enough that they are in “Tech” and what that means is that the entire ensemble and production team heads to Boston for a trial run. Putting the musical on stage outside of New York, working with the costuming, set dressing, lighting and oh so much more. The various perspectives from all the ... Read More »