Pauline Collins is one of those actresses that seem to have been around forever. Now 73 years old, Collins has appeared at regular intervals on the small screen since 1971 when the BBC worldwide hit Upstairs, Downstairs made her a star. Probably best known here for the title role in [...]
http://youtu.be/upAYkFugbco Friday at 9:00 PM TNT will be showing A Christmas Carol (1999) starring Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. I am reasonably certain I have seen every motion picture iteration of this story, and nearly every single television version as well; I even suffered through the musical starring Kelsey Grammer (egads!) [...]
For those of us that love television there is always that one show. The one show where to this day it remains unfathomable how the network executives only gave it one season. Firefly is the most obvious for a lot of people and shows such as My So-Called Life, Freaks [...]
It’s the week before Christmas and two until the new year starts; as I mentioned last week this means pretty much every network series (and even many on cable) are taking a little winter break. The good news is new episodes will return as early as January 2, 2014! As [...]
I’ve been a huge fan of Hulu since it first became available a number of years ago. The ability to watch multiple episodes of shows, in some cases whole seasons of quality television, gives the viewer wonderful freedom and the price – free – can’t be beat. While I have [...]
http://youtu.be/jAFneciOP0M Sunday at 11:00 AM Turner Classic Movies will be showing the excellent holiday film The Bishop’s Wife (1947), staring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. The film tells the story of a hard working Episcopal Bishop who allows his single minded pursuit of funds to build an extravagant [...]
I know it’s not exactly the season for crying and pouting but I’ve been noticing a trend the past couple of decades and I just have to say something; Christmas specials have become weak and uninspired compared to what I grew up with in the seventies. I’m from a time [...]
It seems like the fall TV schedule just got going and yet we are already at the point where many popular shows are either entering a brief hiatus or ending their seasons altogether. This period is somewhat less bleak for the TV obsessed than those dark days filled with summer [...]
There’s something rather comforting and compelling about Trevor Eve. The actor has been on our screens since 1979 when the detective show Eddie Shoestring made him a household name in the UK. Since then Eve, now 62, has appeared regularly as the strong dependable type in such shows as Waking [...]
We’re fresh from an excellent holiday week, which is always a good excuse to catch up on various shows on the old DVR. The Doctor Who 50th anniversary viewed multiple times and truth be told not bad. A quibble here and there, but still fairly epic although it reinforced to [...]
After weeks of premieres and so many new shows and exciting TV events things are starting to wind down for the holiday break. The good news is (well for me) in the coming couple of weeks I will get to write about some of my favorite Christmas specials and episodes. [...]
I find myself profoundly sad at the news that actor Lewis Collins has passed away following a five-year battle with cancer. Strange that the death of someone I have never met and knew only from his television and movie career would have such an impact. For a certain generation of [...]
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Greetings fellow television fans, fanatics, addicts and enthusiasts; welcome to our blog about TV for the Press Democrat Online. Together we will keep up with what’s coming up, examine new and existing programs in depth and from time to time take a moment to appreciate programs from the past. In addition, we’ll delve into the deep corners of Netflix and Hulu to recommend shows from around the world. My hope is together we will find enough quality programming to fill our TV viewing schedules and never again utter the words, “All these channels and nothing to watch!”
— Wallace Poulter