the star-ledger-related stories
Posted Aug 17th 2008 12:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free
A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.
- George Furth: He was a veteran character actor who appeared in tons of TV shows over the years, including L.A. Law, All in the Family, Murder, She Wrote, Happy Days, The Odd Couple, Bonanza, Green Acres, Adam-12, Night Gallery, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees, The Good Guys, That Girl, Batman, F Troop, McHale's Navy, The Defenders, The Nanny, and Wings, as well as movies such as Blazing Saddles, Shampoo, Airport '77, The Boston Strangler, Bulworth, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He was also an acclaimed playwright, writing the play Twigs and collaborating with Stephen Sondheim on Company, Merrily We Roll Along, and Getting Away with Murder. He died at age 75.
Continue reading TV Obits: Furth, Rigby, Stulla, Krupnick, Boghossian
Posted Sep 14th 2007 12:01PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: OpEd, NYTVF
I sometimes look around the internet and am amazed by the sheer volume of content. People can write about almost anything -- especially when they're obsessed with a specific topic. And a lot of people seem to be specifically obsessed with television.
Not that I can judge. I'm TV addict who writes for
TV Squad. But I sometimes wonder if it all really matters. Is anyone listening to any of us? And more importantly, do we have any influence on the television world at large with our opinions and criticisms?
As a devoted TV addict, I headed out last week to cover the
New York Television Festival (NYTVF) and listened in on a panel discussion which looked at the explosion of blogs and TV fan sites and questioned their impact (if any) on the industry.
Continue reading NYTVF: TV Criticism on the Web
Posted Jun 12th 2007 3:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Celebrities, The Sopranos
Give David Chase some credit. He promised Alan Sepinwall of the Newark
Star-Ledger an interview right after the finale of
The Sopranos aired. Sure enough, even though he's on a sabbatical in France and is denying all interview requests, he kept his promise
and spoke to Sepinwall yesterday, despite the controversy surrounding how his series closed out its run.
Did he reveal what happened in final scene, where Tony Soprano eyes some shady figures while waiting for his family to arrive for dinner, after it cut to black? Of course not. But he did try to allay fan's assertions that he pulled the rug out from under them.
Continue reading David Chase talks about The Sopranos finale
Posted Feb 27th 2007 4:02PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: American Idol, Contestants, News and Gossip
Due to
Idol's tight control over their semifinalists (they're currently in
Idol lockdown and are not allowed any contact with the press), Antonella Barba hasn't been able to defend herself or make a public statement regarding
all those naughty online photos.
Luckily for Antonella, her best friend Amanda Coluccio, who auditioned with Antonella and made it to Hollywood,
is speaking out for her. Amanda claims that the girl pictured in the pornographic photos IS NOT Antonella.
Continue reading Best friend says Antonella didn't take sex photos
Posted Feb 26th 2007 8:43PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Industry, OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Video, Web, The Office, Friday Night Lights
Sunday's edition of the Newark
Star-Ledger had
a good article about the relatively new phenomenon of online-viewable deleted scenes, and how show-runners have been utilizing them. Alan Sepinwall, the paper's TV critic, spoke to Greg Daniels of
The Office, Jason Katims of
Friday Night Lights, and Ronald D. Moore of
Battlestar Galactica, about how they've been able to throw in little plot or character details in the deleted scenes, knowing that the fanatical viewers of each show will see them on the web.
Continue reading Exploring the new world of online deleted scenes
Six Mad Men characters who are in limbo after the finale
Fact or Fiction: Big Bang, Brothers & Sisters and CSI
The TV Squad Podcast: Linda Purl talks about The Office, we talk spoilers, and more
