Maybe Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller can join the Great Goalie Debate during his guest stint tonight as a studio analyst on NBC’s coverage of the first game of the Stanley Cup finals. You know, whether a National Hockey League team needs an elite goalie to win the Stanley Cup. The debate has raged on [...]
As if there weren’t enough Buffalo angles to the Stanley Cup finals, NBC has given local fans another reason to watch Saturday night’s opener between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Black Hawks. Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller, who wowed NBC audiences as hockey’s most valuable player during the Vancouver Olympics, will be a guest [...]
Channel 4’s Lisa Flynn plans to leave her weekday anchor duties at 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. at the top-rated news station at the end of June, sources are telling stilltalkintv. The same sources said that Flynn is leaving on her own terms to spend more time with her seven-year-old son, Thomas, who is finishing [...]
Many of my editors at The Buffalo News often weren’t thrilled by my stories about news ratings after sweeps in February, November and May. Too many numbers, they would say. And they were probably right. But I’m a numbers guy. And I think readers and viewers want to know who the winners are whether we’re [...]
Jack Bauer lives another day because of an unofficial presidential pardon that will enable him to make a “24” movie. The series finale Monday of the Fox series was as silly as much of the episodes earlier this season that made it clear that it was time for Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) and Chloe (Mary Lynn [...]
This is Alan Pergament, formerly the TV critic at the Buffalo News. After three weeks of so-called “retirement,” I’m back. My new blog is called “stilltalkintv,” which is the sequel to my Buffalo News blog, Talkin’ TV. I was inspired to blog by two things. The first was my annoyance about how my Time Warner [...]