New Tricks, new series 5 now on PBS Spokane

Good news, everyone: PBS Spokane has started Series 5 of the fabulous BBC show New Tricks — every Thursday night.

Matt Smith (“Who?”) – The new Doctor Who

I don’t know about any of you, but somehow the new Doctor Who doesn’t instil me with much confidence:

Matt Smith has been cast as the replacement for David Tennant as the Time Lord in the BBC’s sci-fi series Doctor Who. Ahead of Smith’s incarnation as the 11th Doctor, we [...]

Majel Roddenberry – united with Gene

This is so sad:
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s widow and a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died on Thursday. She was 76. Roddenberry, who suffered from leukemia, died at home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a spokesperson.
I was fortunate enough to meet her and her family [...]

Praise the Lord!

Canadians have finally found the silver lining of the dark and gloomy cloud of the recession: No more Canadian Idol — well, for a year, that is:
“Canadian Idol” is being put on the shelf in 2009, CTV announced Tuesday.
The program hosted by Ben Mulroney finished its sixth season this fall and remained a Canadian TV [...]

It’s been 30 years …

Hard to believe, but it’s already been thirty years since Dallas first went on the air (see reports here and here).
I’ll always have fond memories of the show, because I worked on the show for about 4 weeks while the show was shot on location in Europe. I acted as a translator for Mr. Hagman, [...]

The good old days of TV

I remember a time when we heard grand predictions of a brighter future in TV that would see TV consumers be immersed in a “500-channel universe”. Well, now we have it, and I have yet to see that brighter future we were promised then.
There’s simply too much out there – browsing the onscreen TV guide [...]