Image via Wikipedia Talk about trying to build silly suspense. NBC play-by-play man Mike Emrick had this to say about Boston goaltender Tim Thomas Wednesday night after the Bruins 4-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals: “Will he be the MVP? Let’s learn.” It ...

Image via Wikipedia The Voice. It is Fran Drescher’s signature as an actress. So naturally I waited to see how long it would take for a joke about the nasally-sounding voice in Drescher’s new TV Land sitcom premiering at 10:30 tonight, “Happily Divorced.” As they like to say in Las Vegas, the ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife My instinct Saturday about the impact of a federal court ruling on local FiOS subscribers in Western New York appears to be accurate. A FiOS spokesman confirmed Monday that the ruling is “another step” toward allowing its customers here to get Buffalo Sabres games ...

Image via Wikipedia While watching the HBO documentary on the rivalry and subsequent friendship of tennis legends Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, I couldn’t help but think about how much it reminded me of an episode of the TNT series “Men of a Certain Age.” The feeling became even stronger at the ...

Will FiOS subscribers in Western New York be able to see Tyler Myers, Ryan Miller and other Buffalo Sabres in high definition next season? That certainly appears to be a possibility after a U.S Court of Appeals agreed Friday with a decision by government regulators to close a loophole in a 1992 law that ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Why Abe? That was the question many “Today” fans had when 90-year-old Abe Vigoda made an appearance Wednesday during a live dance number to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” on Meredith Vieira’s final show as co-host. I was curious ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is what I’m thinking: *I’m going to miss co-anchor Meredith Vieira (see right) on NBC’s “Today.” But I’m not going to miss spelling — or should it be misspelling — her name. It is one of the trickiest celebrity names to spell. The only ...

Image via Wikipedia This is what I’m thinking: * The NBA Finals are now getting higher ratings  than the Stanley Cup finals in Buffalo. But that statement should come with an asterisk. That’s because Monday’s Game 3 and tonight’s Game 4 of the NHL series between Vancouver and Boston ...

Image via Wikipedia Twelve minutes. After a commercial break. That’s how long it took new CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley (right) to address the humiliation of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner during a bizarre afternoon press conference Monday. It was shocking. Not the press conference (Weiner ...

Image via Wikipedia It is always interesting and educational to see what network television shows Western New Yorkers are watching. We watch a lot more network shows here than people do nationally. That is especially true of CBS shows carried by Channel 4. Here are the Top 10 noticeable things about ...