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I first met Daniela Malave way back in 2005, when we both worked for the Albany Patroons (I was a photographer, she was one of the “Emeralds” cheerleaders / dance team members).  We stayed friends throughout the years, kept in contact with each other, and Daniela moved on to pursue an acting career. Her acting…

Once upon a time, television networks would air their unsold pilots as an ersatz anthology series, essentially to fill up summertime broadcasting hours and to show why the programs really didn’t have enough of an “oomph” to make it to series. In 1991, one enterprising viewer actually videotaped one of those “failed pilot” episodes, and…

Here’s the plotline.  A big, strapping hulk of a man travels from the backwaters of a small town to become a bouncer in an urban nightclub.  And in being that bouncer, he becomes part enforcer, part detective, part hired muscle, part comedy relief. And in doing so, we see not only his world, but the…

I think that Batman: The Animated Series was one of the best made-for-TV cartoons ever produced.  The show featured amazing artwork, detailed storylines, and character concepts that just completely worked.  Plus, Kevin Conroy’s gravel-throated voice of Batman set the standard for future animated Batman projects. And a character from that original TV series – the…

Yesterday, one of my Facebook friends posted a trailer for a documentary on her FB wall.  It looked intriguing.  So last night, I decided it would be worth watching. The documentary, Life in he Doghouse, follows the life of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta, two experts in equestrian dressage training who developed a passion for…

As a child of the 1970’s, I feasted on Saturday morning programming.  And I had a serious feast for the Saturday morning creations of Sid and Marty Krofft.  Their puppet / live action series were inventive and creative and fun.  I’ve already written in the past about how Joy the Bugaloo was one of my…

There was this great Australian soap opera drama called Love Child, a period piece about unwed teen mothers in the late 1960’s.  I really enjoyed it, and although I hoped that Love Child would somehow make it to an American broadcast (it would have done well on PBS Masterpiece or maybe as a Netflix import),…

I’ve watched Game of Thrones for the past eight seasons.  And although it seems that last Sunday’s episode, “The Iron Throne,” was listed as the series finale, for some reason my Apple TV listed an extra episode.  Maybe it was an accident, maybe it was an Easter egg. But sure enough, apparently HBO made one…