Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50

"Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor...

Kelsey Grammer Recovering After Heart Attack

Actor Kelsey Grammer is recovering in a hospital in Hawaii after suffering a heart attack over the weekend."Kelsey Grammer, best known from his long-running sitcom "Frasier," suffered a mild heart attack during the...

Big American sitcoms, R.I.P.

Here's a blog entry that asks whether the TV sitcom is going the way of the Dodo bird.I'd argue that a more alternative brand of TV has entered a golden age the past five years or so. Successful HBO series like Six...

NBC quashes Seinfeld rumour

The rumours about a new Seinfeldian sitcom never gained much momentum as far as I can tell,  but anyway here you go."Sorry, Seinfeld fans. NBC and Jerry Seinfeld shot down a New York Post report Friday that...

Timberlake to Develop Peruvian Comdy for NBC

Where Salma Hayek did wonders for bringing the loveable Spanish-language comedy 'Ugly Betty' to American audiences, J.T. is now going to try and bring his star power (and love of Peruvian comedy?) to a show...

Girls with guns - lots of guns

The second series of the ultraviolent comedy Suburban Shootout aired in the UK on five on Thursday 6 September at 10pm. We've created a fan site where we're tracking reactions from across the blogosphere, posting...

Valerie Bertinelli working on a memoir

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWow, this will be the must read Book of the year, full of mystery and suspense on a forgotten star of TV. Valerie's claim to fame will go down in History as the wife...

RIP to one of Britain's best TV comics

John Inman, British television comedian and star of Are You Being Served?, has died.Like many good Canadian kids, I was raised on a steady diet of CBC and BBC productions (the latter of which were broadcast on the...

Whole Hog Homophobia

"Whole Hog Homophobia Given the rampant homophobia motoring through Touchstone/Disney’s latest comedy, “Wild Hogs,” it seems fitting that screenwriter Brad Copeland’s credits include writing for TV’s...

IndieTV Is A Breath Of Fresh Air

Perhaps one of the coolest things about the online television revolution is the simple fact anyone can get in on it. From hacks to actual diamonds in the rough, the Net is a playground for amateur filmmakers looking...

Where is Hollywood looking for new talent? Online

Where is Hollywood looking for new talent? Online If you're undiscovered but Web savvy, the new school of the streaming video revolution may be your big break By MELANIE McFARLAND P-I TELEVISION CRITIC For all of its...

Little Mosque Bombs

"As I predicted once you lost the audience outside of GTA.... the ratings for Little Mosque on the Prairie have dropped from 2.1 million viewers for the first episosde down to 1.2 million for episode 2."

Ho Hum

"Well I watched the much hyped new CBC 'comedy' Little Mosque on the Prairie, a pale imitation of CTV's very successful Corner Gas.  Amatuer, banal, boring, snorefest, are terms that come to mind. That and it seriously needed a laugh track so we can follow...

'Little Mosque' draws whopping two million viewers for premiere episode

"More than two million Canadians tuned in this week to "Little Mosque on the Prairie," the new CBC comedy about a Muslim community in a rural town that has been the subject of worldwide attention. The figure - 2.1 million - is a huge one for a Canadian television show....

Indie TV Series from Seattle, 35th Street Mission, now showing.

35th Street Mission, the new Indie Sitcom from Seattle, is now available for free download via the official 35th Street Mission website, www.35sm.com. "This is an exciting time for the 35th Street Mission series,"...

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