I saw the tweet from series co-creator Jackson Publick, and it caught me with a punch in the guts. Unfortunately, it’s true: #VentureBros has been canceled. We got the highly disappointing news a few months ago, while we were writing what would have been season 8. We thank you, our amazing fans, for 17 years…
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Steve Bannon needs to watch Saturday morning cartoons
In the past few days, four men – including Donald Trump’s political advisor Steve Bannon – were indicted on charges of money-laundering and wire fraud, in connection with a plan to fund construction of Trump’s border wall with crowd-sourced funds. You remember this, right? When Trump couldn’t get the funding he wanted for his vanity…
Read MoreCountdown – the game show of spelling, math, and whoopsies
I stumbled across this TV game show some time ago, it was an attempt by a British company to export their game shows online as playable entertainment. The show was called Countdown, and apparently it’s one of the longest-running British game shows out there. Essentially, the game of Countdown involves letters and numbers, as you…
Read MoreHow about supporting the championship work of Ken Screven today?
You know him from his years as WRGB’s top on-camera reporter. He’s interviewed everyone from governors and mayors to average citizens. And even in retirement, he has stood up for the rights of the LGBTQ nation. And with that, Ken Screven will be honored and feted by the Albany Damien Center, and will receive the…
Read MoreI’ve got a Dirty Pair to show you…
I do enjoy watching anime. But my initial forays into anime involved watching American-dubbed and American-edited versions of such Japanese TV shows as Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers), Mach Go Go Go (Speed Racer), and Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). So one day, back when the Thruway Inn in Albany was hosting a sci-fi convention…
Read MoreThere are nominations. It is the way.
We live in very crazy times right now. VERY crazy times. And yesterday, I received a teensy tiny bit of normalcy in my crazy life. Somewhere along the line, the Emmy Award nominations were announced. And among all the usual nominations (Jeez, can you give the award for Best Supporting Actress Comedy to D’Arcy Carden…
Read MoreSo I signed up for this NBC Peacock streaming video service…
I don’t know why I get involved in video streaming services. I sign up for them, then I watch two shows total on that channel. I added DC Universe, and all I watch there is Doom Patrol and Harley Quinn. I signed up for the History Channel, and all I watch are reruns of Forged…
Read MoreStar Trek: Lower Decks? Set phasers to obliterate.
Of late, there have been several attempts to invigorate the Star Trek television universe. There’s the series Star Trek: Discovery, which has its good moments and its bad moments; there’s the Star Trek: Short Treks anthology series, where Trek-related stories are provided in 10-minute snippets; and there’s Star Trek: Picard, which makes me worry every…
Read MoreI see your Lady A, and your other Lady A, and raise you a Lady A.
All right, everybody follow along. Once upon a time, there was a blues singer named Anita White, who for the past twenty years has fronted her own blues band, and has performed on stage under the name “Lady A.” Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a country trio who called themselves Lady Antebellum……
Read MoreHoly shit, Richard Pryor had a variety TV series and they let him air THIS??
There are so many TV shows in broadcast history that make you wonder, “If they only did this, or if they only did that, it would be a success. But why they did this instead, makes me wonder.” Such is the case with the 1977 variety TV series The Richard Pryor Show. This is 1977. …
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