Inquiring minds want to know: Why is Fox premiering “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” at 9:30 tonight after the conclusion of the November sweeps when the other networks are primarily airing concerts, Christmas specials and repeats? It could be because Fox executives hate the show as much as most TV critics did when DVDs were sent [...]
Leftovers after the Thanksgiving holidays, with some new commentary served: Say goodbye to Channel 2’s weekend morning anchor Josh Boose. He’s leaving the local NBC affiliate for a similar job in his native Cleveland. Channel 2 General Manager Jim Toellner said he will be replaced temporarily by current staffers but added a job search will [...]
Despite the loss of Oprah Winfrey as the early news lead-in, despite being the only local newscast not in high definition and despite replacing veteran reporters with people barely out of college, Channel 4 remains the news leader. The CBS affiliate won the November sweeps period that concluded on Thanksgiving Eve and the right to [...]
I love the movies. I thank my late father for inspiring my first love. I am willing to see almost anything as long as popcorn is available. This is background to a story about what happened to me around 6:30 Friday night. I got a call from my sister-in-law asking me what I was doing. [...]
It was a quiet weekend for the Bernie Fine story coming out of Syracuse. Image by Getty Images via @daylife That’s good news for Fine, the assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University who has been accused of sexually abusing two former ball boys decades ago. If true, the Thursday report by ESPN’s Mark Schwarz featuring on-air [...]
The local news battle from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. during the November sweeps is tighter than all the runners will be at the start of the Turkey Trot. Round 3 of the November news ratings battle in the early evening was pretty much a draw between Channel 2 and Channel 4 in the first sweeps [...]
Like Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, “I’ve got all this stuff twirling around my head” again. Buffalo-born supermodel Beverly Johnson (see right) is about to get her own series from OWN, the little-watched Oprah Winfrey Network. According to an OWN release “Beverly’s Full House” is a docu-series that “follows what happens when three generations of [...]
A few of my readers laughed at the line from Satan in the recent “Saturday Night Live” that I blogged about Tuesday. You may remember since I only wrote about it a day ago that Satan (played by Jason Sudeikis, see right) was so exasperated by the Penn State child sexual abuse [...]
Like Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, “I’ve got all this stuff twirling around my head.” So here is what I’m thinking: * The Versus studio guys, Mike Milbury and Keith Jones, covering the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 shootout win over Montreal Monday verbally punished the local heroes for their lack of aggression after the scoreless first period. Milbury [...]
The number of local television viewers who left the Buffalo Bills bandwagon Sunday was as large as the voters who abandoned former County Executive Chris Collins on Election Day. The Bills’ 44-7 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Channel 4 had a season-low 29.2 rating and 50 share of the audience despite the appearance of [...]