Sometimes a television series can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up — or whether it wants to grow up at all. Case in point: Bridgerton, now on Netflix. One knows from the previews that it will…
The following pitch meeting never took place, but it should have. The names of the characters have been changed to protect the insufferable. The writer sat in the outer office of Titan Pictures sipping coffee from a biodegradable paper cup…
A&E Network’s cancellation of its popular police show “Live PD” has backfired, big time. Average prime-time viewership for the channel has declined by 49 percent year over year since the show’s cancellation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Prior to…
I’m old enough to remember when most women on the silver screen were beautiful. Some 30 years ago, I went to the rerelease of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder in 3D. My date, Sharon, was a pretty 20-something blonde,…
Even before all this COVID-19 stuff, you couldn’t fail to notice a fast-developing genre of television series that might be described as “Ditch the Rat Race.” They showcase people who have left modern life behind, given up the commute and…
Amazon Prime’s new series Hunters has caused quite the controversy. In the show, a group of vigilantes hunts down Nazis who have fled to the United States. Video depictions of hunting Nazi exiles have been successfully executed in the past, such…
I first learned of Max von Sydow’s passing by reading Nic Rowan’s fine tribute about midnight-30 today. I enjoyed a good deal of Max’s work. To name just one, I liked his portrayal of the intelligent but amoral assassin in Three Days of the Condor….
There’s a remote outpost in the culture war as yet unassailed by the forces of wokeness. Soap operas have been a popular form of entertainment since radio days, and they still enthrall women by the millions. That’s because the women…
Last month, the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards show garnered the lowest TV ratings in the event’s history, with less than seven million viewers, a 32-percent drop from the previous year’s record low of 10 million. I didn’t even know the thing…
