If you’re a TV critic, you don’t need to have the instincts of a homicide detective to see a much-talked about new fall series like NBC’s “Prime Suspect.” The network sends out the pilots of most of its fall shows in July, giving critics and bloggers (yes, bloggers get equal access) something to watch on [...]
You have questions, I have answers. It just may take a little time to get them. I’m thankful that readers of stilltalkintv send me requests about things that I didn’t realize had happened. Take the morning show at 97 Rock. A reader astutely noticed that morning man Larry Norton isn’t getting as much help daily [...]
When John Beard arrived at Channel 2 almost two years ago, local TV viewers weren’t instantly enthralled with someone who had been a popular anchor almost three decades earlier when he was at Channel 4. Even when Beard was a star in the Los Angeles market, he always stayed in touch with Buffalo through his friendships [...]
Matthew Barnaby won’t be spending any additional time in ESPN’s version of hockey’s sin bin or penalty box. You may recall that the former Buffalo Sabre was immediately dropped from the cable sports network’s coverage of the NHL playoffs last May after he got into some embarrassing legal problems. Barnaby (in the center in above [...]
In my former life as a Buffalo News TV critic, I became the unofficial biographer of TV history-making Buffalo State College graduate Tom Fontana. I met the Buffalo native in 1982. It was my first year as a critic and the year that he started his TV career as a story editor on “St. Elsewhere,” [...]
This is what I’m thinking: * The No.1 sport around here these days is bashing the Buffalo Bills after their first two sorry preseason losses. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t watching. The Bills are also the No. 1 TV attraction, getting double-digit ratings in the summer when network affiliates typically get ratings of 4 [...]
This is my last Ed Kilgore blog. I promise. Until the next one. I was wrong. I’m not talking about my assessment of the Channel 2 sports anchor. I stand by everything I have written about him. My memory just failed me about how long ago it was that I wrote something that angered him so [...]
My recent blog on Ed Kilgore’s angry reaction to my calling him to get his take on why he no longer is the 11 p.m. sports anchor on Channel 2 led to some amusing comments from readers. “Wow!” wrote someone who identified himself as David Shapiro. “Ed sure sounds like a sorehead. It appears that he [...]
Channel 2’s Adam Benigni sounded like a Buffalo Bill or a Buffalo Sabre trying to make a good impression during training camp when asked Thursday about how he feels about becoming the 11 p.m. sports anchor. “I’m excited about it,” said Benigni, who will replace veteran Ed Kilgore on the Sunday through Thursday 11 p.m. [...]
Channel 2 Sports Director Ed Kilgore, the dean of local sportscasters, is reducing his role at the NBC affiliate as early as Monday and turning over the 11 p.m. weeknight duties to long-time backup Adam Benigni, according to multiple sources. In a move speculated upon by stilltalkintv in a June 3rd blog, the 64-year-old Kilgore (seen far right) [...]