Princess Diana-related stories
Posted Aug 6th 2008 2:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Cancellations, Reality-Free
Perhaps the strangest soap opera of all time has come to an end now that
Passions has been canceled by DirecTV. The gothic, modern psycho-drama set in a small Maine town replete with witches, elves, zombies and even some regular people, lasted nine years on the air. In primetime terms, that would be a hell of a run. For soaps, it characterizes
Passions as a noble -- to some -- failure.
I never cared for
Passions. It turned me off in the first season, 1999, but it wasn't because of the outre elements. I was actually interested in the gothic stuff because I'd grown up enjoying
Dark Shadows with Barnabus and Quentin and Angelique and all those horror classic reinterpretations on a next-to-nothing budget -- furniture provided by Stern's Department Store, as I recall -- including werewolves,
Frankenstein's monster and
The Innocents, and parallel universes.
Dark Shadows remains a vivid, happy memory.
Continue reading TV Squad Soap Report: Passions played out
Posted Feb 19th 2008 3:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Cable/Satellite, Celebrities
You'd think by now that people would know better. Embellishing a resume, adding credits that are the work of a vivid imagination rather than hard work... they're bound to be unearthed someday. Especially if you're a success. The latest prevaricator caught in a series of lies is Food Network's British chef Robert Irvine. In a scathing expose by the
St. Petersburg Times, the star of
Dinner: Impossible, has been caught with egg on his face. Make that more like egg salad. Multiple claims by Irvine, including creating Princess Diana's wedding cake, cooking for White House dinners, being knighted by the queen, and more, have turned out to be tall tales.
Continue reading Truth: Impossible - Chef Robert Irvine caught in a web of lies
Posted Jun 7th 2007 4:41PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows
If you wanted to get your conspiracy theory fix and are bummed out the upcoming HBO documentary on JFK will be free of such theories, than you might want to check out The Murder of Princess Diana, a TV movie that hits Lifetime this August, the ten-year anniversary of her death.
The TV movie, based on the book of the same name by Noel Botham, will focus on a supposed conspiracy that resulted in the princess' death in a car crash.
Continue reading Lifetime begins production on TV movie about death of Princess Diana
Posted Jun 6th 2007 4:41PM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Documentary
A British television channel has plans to produce a documentary about the death of Princess Diana. Supposedly, the producers have obtained exclusive photos of the crash that ended Diana's life in 1997. Diana's sons, William and Harry have expressed concern and requested that the photos not be included in the final production.
According to producers the photos contain no explicit or damaging images of Diana and are essential to the production, although they haven't said why.
Continue reading Royal sons beg British TV not to run photos
Posted Mar 19th 2006 12:44PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, Programming
What's it called when you produce the
sequel to a show that was called a 'new low' in television? I don't know, either.
In 2003, it was
The
Spirit of Diana, a televised seance to contact the dearly departed Princess Diana. It cost $15 to watch and drew
about 500,000 American viewers. This time around, the same geniuses behind the Diana seance are now attempting to
contact John Lennon. On April 24, it'll cost a mere $10 to watch psychics visit different locations of importance to
the former Beatle, including the New York apartment building where he was shot and killed. It's called... wait for
it...
The Spirit of John Lennon. And, no, Yoko Ono is not involved.
The producer of the program,
Paul Sharratt, said that the Diana seance didn't make him a believer in psychics but he thinks there are "many,
many millions of people around the world who think it's possible." Classy.
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