Image via Wikipedia Emmy host Jane Lynch was severely let down by the show’s writers Sunday night from the overproduced opening number right through the Jersey Shore parody and barely got a passable performance . The best moment of the Emmy Awards came when the Canadian Tenors – who weren’t initially ...

Image via Wikipedia Channel 2 morning anchor John Beard is joining his buddy Ed Kilgore in the world of the shorter work week. General Manager Jim Toellner confirmed that part of Beard’s new deal enables him to give up the station’s midday news at 11 a.m., the only local newscast to air on a local ...

Image via Wikipedia You’d be up all night trying to figure out why NBC commissioned two new comedies premiering tonight geared to the age 35-54 crowd. My advice: Go to bed and avoid “Up All Night” (10 tonight, Channel 2) and “Free Agents” (10:30 tonight, Channel 2), adult comedies dealing ...

Image by vagueonthehow via Flickr “Ringer” is a humdinger of a new fall series. It would easily have made my Top Five of the fall if I hadn’t gotten sick and had time to actually list a Top Five. I’m advising you of this because anyone over the age of 25 might not be able to find the series ...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Miss me? I’ve been sick. And I can’t even blame the Buffalo Bills, who until Sunday seemed to have been blamed for everything but the national debt. I’m writing this from where I’ve been for most the past five days – my bed. And what do you do when you are ...

Image via Wikipedia A few episodes into the seventh and final season of FX’s “Rescue Me,” New York City firefighter Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) told a television interviewer doing a story on the aftermath of 9/11 that “there are no happy endings.” That seemed to be a clue about how the series ...

Image by pete riches via Flickr This is what I’m thinking: * Someone asked me why President Obama didn’t schedule his jobs plan speech to Congress on Labor Day instead of creating a controversy by first scheduling it for Wednesday opposite a  Republican presidential debate and then moving it ...

Image via Wikipedia Notes before the long Labor Day holiday, which coincides with another of my 39th birthdays: * If you get up Tuesday morning, don’t expect to see the new local morning show that WBBZ-TV Owner Phil Arno had planned to premiere that day. Arno said Wednesday that all local programming ...