Somewhere in time – I suspect it was during the late 1970’s or early 1980’s – we changed our fashion styles. At one time, we wanted our blue jeans to be less blue than jeans. They needed to be a sky blue rather than a deep dark blue, and they had to feel like soft…
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Kickstarter for a stopmotion Jonny Quest episode
Last year, I blogged about Roger D. Evans’ efforts to re-create the Jonny Quest opening theme in stop-motion animation. What he did was pretty freakin’ impressive. Here’s what a classic Jonny Quest episode looks like. And here’s what Roger D. Evans did – he built his own Jonny Quest action figures and re-created the opening…
Read More“Shipping Wars” on A&E – my new published article
How’s this for a nice big plate of cool beans? Last month, I pitched an article to one of my writing clients, the travel magazine RoadKing. The idea was to cover the A&E television series Shipping Wars, a reality TV show that profiles independent transporters and haulers who will deliver items that the major carriers…
Read MoreAn Offer Against the Chance
Last May, I was in the middle of planning a Times Union Community Bloggers’ golf tournament, when I received a Twitter message that offered me a very interesting and intriguing choice. The message was from a casting director, who was looking for contestants to participate in a pilot episode of a potential new game show.…
Read More“Bad Ronald” on the ABC Movie of the Week
Back in the 1970’s, the prime time television networks often featured a mixture of sitcoms, dramas, sporting events and variety shows. Eventually ABC blocked off their Tuesday nights for something special – a series of made-for-TV motion pictures under the umbrella title of the ABC Movie of the Week. And it also had some cutting-edge…
Read MoreDownton Abbey Season 3 videos and spoilers!
All right, who wants some fresh Downton Abbey updates? Okay, okay, not so loud… wow… all of you want some Downton Abbey spoilers? Granted, we aren’t even going to be able to see the new season until it premiers on PBS’ Masterpiece! anthology show in January of 2013 (and between now and then, Masterpiece! should…
Read MoreThe Direwolves Win the Stanley Cup!
Yep. I do enjoy watching the HBO series Game of Thrones. It’s probably the first time I’ve really gotten into a low fantasy series like this – the show is well-paced, the characters are distinctive and unique, and they have lots of talent around the ice. No, I’m not talking about the Night’s Watch upon…
Read MoreThe PBS children’s shows you forgot about
At one point in my life, as far as I was concerned, the best children’s television shows were all on WMHT, my local PBS station. Okay, this may have been back in the era of B.C. (Before Cable), but once a week WMHT aired a whole lineup of educational and entertaining juvenile TV shows and…
Read MoreHooked on “Unsung”
Remember the VH1 series Behind the Music, the show that discussed the trials and tribulations, the rises and falls, of popular singers and bands? Heck, the first two episodes featured the first truly in-depth overview of the Milli Vanilli scandal, which was followed by MC Hammer’s financial implosion. I used to love watching Behind the…
Read More“Solfeggio” and the Nairobi Trio
Feel like having a good laugh this morning? Let me present to you one of the stars of early television – the Nairobi Trio! Funny stuff, right? Yes it is, especially when you consider that the creator of the Nairobi Trio – Ernie Kovacs – was one of the pioneers of experimental television. The song…
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