Image by Getty Images via @daylife Pigs can fly! The New Orleans Saints have won the Super Bowl and Verizon’s FiOS and Time Warner Cable have made a sports programming deal. I’m not sure if the last statement is the most surprising. After all, Time Warner has been running ads for awhile ...

Image via Wikipedia   This is what I’m thinking: And the local ratings winner at 11 p.m. on primary night was … Channel 2. Since I voted it the station that did the best job on the night of Carl Paladino and Tim Kennedy victories, I’d like to think the viewing public was tuning in because ...

Image via Wikipedia   Steve Buscemi, TV series lead? Only on HBO. He doesn’t have leading man looks by network TV standards. After all, the veteran character actor looks a little like a rat and has mostly played one over the years. Now he gets his star turn in “Boardwalk Empire,” a ...

Image by azipaybarah via Flickr   And the winner in declaring the winner in the Republican race for governor is … Channel 2.  It was at times comical watching all three local news stations deal with Carl Paladino’s (see right)  surprising primary upset of Rick Lazio Tuesday night. Perhaps ...

Image via Wikipedia   This is what I’m thinking a few days before the new TV season officially begins next week: *Buffalo’s Fred Keller is now a producer-director of the new Friday night CBS series “Blue Bloods.” That’s the show headlined by Tom Selleck (see above)  about three ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife   If ever there was a good year to stop being a full-time TV critic, this is it. I have to give the networks’ promotional departments credit – they have made several shows look intriguing.  But I’ve watched just about all the pilots for the new fall shows ...

Image via Wikipedia   Steve Tasker admits his mistakes but he doesn’t think being more optimistic about the Buffalo Bills than most national experts this season is one of them.  First, let’s go to the mistake or “misinterpretation” that Tasker made during the Bills preseason games he ...

Image via Wikipedia   This is what I’m thinking: * Steve Tasker, who worked all of the Buffalo Bills preseason games on Channel 7, will be the analyst alongside play-by-play man Gus Johnson on the Bills season opener against Miami at 1 p.m. Sunday on Channel 4.  CBS isn’t exactly sending ...

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * Inquiring minds wanted to know what Channel 4’s ratings were on Aug. 25 when the man accused of the Main Street shootings surrendered to Rich Newberg  and was interviewed by the veteran reporter.  They weren’t as high as you might have ...

Image via Wikipedia   Tonight’s the night for “Hellcats” (9, WNLO-TV) and “Terriers” (10, FX). And the two shows couldn’t be more different. They certainly are looking for different audiences. The first new network series of the fall – if you call the CW a network – “Hellcats” ...