combat-related stories
Posted Aug 25th 2009 12:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free
It's time for another TV list! Everybody loves lists, right? This one has
AOL picking the best TV shows of the 1960s.
As usual, it's a list that will get the debate going. Shows that without a doubt deserve to be on the list:
The Twilight Zone,
The Dick Van Dyke Show,
Star Trek,
The Andy Griffith Show,
I Spy, and
Bewitched.
Shows that without a doubt don't belong on the list:
The Flying Nun,
Hogan's Heroes, and
The Mod Squad. Sure, I enjoyed those shows when I was younger, but I really don't think they belong in the "best" category (I'll let you debate another show on the list,
Batman - great or just "campy" great?)
Continue reading AOL picks the best TV shows of the 60s
Posted Jun 9th 2008 10:40AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Private Eye Shows
While channel-surfing on my little office TV last week around 1 a.m., looking for something to keep me company, I stumbled across an episode of
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (star Richard Basehart, pictured), followed by
Combat!.
"What is this channel that plays all these old shows I remember as a kid?" I asked the TV Gods.
"It's AmericanLife," they replied. "They feature classic family shows aimed at Baby Boomers -- shows like
Remington Steele, The Courtship of Eddie's Father,
Lost in Space, and
Welcome Back, Kotter."
Ok, the TV Gods didn't really say that. I looked it up on
the AmericanLife Web site, not to be confused with Showtime's
This American Life, the fab documentary series hosted by Ira Glass.
Continue reading AmericanLife: It's swell
Posted Mar 11th 2008 8:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.
- Boyd Coddington: He was a custom car designer and star of TLC's American Hot Rod. A former machinist at Disneyland, he opened up Boyd's Wheels in 1988 and won several awards for his car designs. He died of complications from surgery at age 63 in Whittier, CA.
Continue reading TV Obits: Coddington, Rosenmen, Pingitore, Heinz
Posted Mar 23rd 2007 7:34AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Smallville, The CW
(S06E17) You know you're in for a very special
Smallville when it starts out with a WWF-style cage match, an extremely gratuitous shot of some very large boobs, and an all-out brawl between Clark and a Zoner who seems stronger than he is. It's like a Bizarro world version of the show starring everyone's favorite Kryptonian. Zowie.
Basically, it's
Fight Club meets
Smallville meets ... well,
Superheroes Gone Wild. Toss in Lois chomping at the bit for a story, and you've got half the makings of a regular old episode of
Lois & Clark, or is it just me? Although I don't remember Teri Hatcher donning red leather and claiming to be a wayward stripper from down the street who has a penchant for loving the ladies. Plus, did you catch the way Lois claimed she does a killer "Stars and Stripes" routine? Hello throwback to an old episode.
Continue reading Smallville: Combat
Posted Nov 21st 2006 12:47PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
Filmmaker and iconoclast Robert Altman
died Monday evening in Los Angeles at the age of 81. While his legacy is firmly rooted in the cinematic realm with films like
Nashville,
MASH and
The Player to his credit, television wouldn't be the same with him.
Altman's career actually started in television in the early 1950s. He directed dozens of television episodes for shows like
Combat! and
Bonanza, as well as the short-lived, but critically-acclaimed 1997 series
Gun, which followed the history of a single gun as it passed through different owners and scenarios. The mini-series
Tanner '88 is still the guidepost for political satire in film and television. His film
MASH, of course, became a revolutionary television series of the same name.
Continue reading Robert Altman dies at 81
Posted Oct 19th 2006 7:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, News
CNN will offer an insider's look at a combat hospital in Baghdad on Veterans' Day, November 11 at 8 pm and 11 pm with a special titled
CNN Presents: Combat Hospital. The special, which will repeat on November 12 at 8 pm and 11 pm, will not use any narration or musical score, but will simply follow the doctors and nurses in a combat hospital located in a building once used by Saddam Hussein himself as they try to help anyone who arrives wounded, whether it be US soldiers, civilians, coalition forces or insurgents. While I find this topic very interesting, such things can often be ruined by poor or misguided coverage, but this special sounds like it was done in a tasteful manner. I certainly like the idea of not using narration or trying to emphasize the drama with a musical score. It seems enough to just have the cameras there to record the chaos.
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