Can the New York Yankees turn independent station WNGS-TV into a winner? Or can the Yanks at least drive awareness about the channel, which now has a pretty prominent position on Channel 5 on local cable? According to an informed source, WNGS has snagged the local rights to 21 Yankee games that air on a [...]
If you’re looking for something really different on network television, the choice at 9 tonight is a no-brainer. ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” which has always used music as an extra character, airs an episode dealing with the brain that features songs performed by cast members. The gimmick has been done before but isn’t as silly as it [...]
In Sunday’s opening episode of the eight-part miniseries, “The Kennedys,” Joe Kennedy Sr. is talking to his oldest son Joe Jr. about trying to stay out of the World War II fight with Adolph Hitler. “If I could write Hitler a check to call the whole thing off, I’d do it,” says Joe Sr. One [...]
Dana Delany (see right) of “China Beach” and “Desperate Housewives” fame in a new series: What’s not to like? Her character, Megan Hunt, in tonight’s ABC series “Body of Proof” for one thing. The 10 p.m. time slot opposite “The Good Wife” on CBS and “Parenthood” on NBC for another thing. It’s where the critically-acclaimed [...]
One of the more amusing moments of the local television season came Friday when Channel 4 reporter Rich Newberg was interviewed by Channel 4 reporter Luke Moretti. You don’t see something like that happen too often. The subject was Newberg’s testimony that day in the City Grill murder trial of Riccardo M. McCray about the [...]
This is what I’m thinking: * Before you start complaining about the cold weather here today, consider these words from NBC’s “Today” host Matt Lauer (see right) while he stood outside 30 Rock this morning: “Spring time in New York – 29 degrees.” It other words, it is cold all over the East. * Charles Barkley may [...]
Remember Emily Smith? At times, I feel like the biographer of the Western New Yorker who left CBS News several months ago in hopes of landing a job in her hometown. Yes, Mayor Michael Bloomberg some people would rather live in WNY than NYC. A news veteran with a network resume, the 32-year-old Smith [...]
This is what I’m thinking: * So those “new programming opportunities” that Channel 4 General Manager Chris Musial was talking about is a morning show called “Wingin’ It, Buffalo Style.” The station has begun running promos for the new show, which will air at 8 a.m. weekdays on WNLO-TV in place of an hour of [...]
I’ve had enough of Alec Baldwin (see right). Recently, I mentioned that the “30 Rock” star was the new Betty White because he seemed to be everywhere – on TV, on awards shows and on commercials. I don’t knew who was more annoying over the first weekend of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament – Alec or Charles Barkley. [...]
I almost get as annoyed as Larry David or Louis C.K. (see right) when I read self-serving comments about how television works without any analysis or perspective. My annoyance doesn’t quite reach the level reached by Mayor Byron Brown when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a minor shot at Buffalo that made many former [...]