Archive for the 'Television' Category


The Billy Joel Documentary-Part 1

1 Don’t watch this if you’re not a fan of Billy Joel. This isn’t quite hagiography, there are negative aspects of Joel that are talked about, however there’s a desire to turn Billy Joel into something he is not, a credible rocker along the lines of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne, both of whom testify […]

Ballard

Amazon Prime trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKRJGXgK0Q This is not a good show. And the problem is its star, Maggie Q. She’s a cold character with no charisma, the kind of good-looking person in your office who gets the job done but you don’t want to hang with after hours. One whose affect is almost always downbeat. Is […]

Firing Colbert

You NEGOTIATE! Which is how we know that CBS canceled the “Late Show” for political reasons. Let me see now… You take a top producer, a revenue positive show, and you cancel it willy-nilly? Let’s say income is down. Then like the news outlets, you renegotiate the contracts with the talent, you give them the […]

Tour de France: Unchained-Season 3

Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaE5_704KUo Did you watch today’s Formula 1 race from Silverstone? It was the best of the year! Usually I fast-forward through the competition, otherwise it’s just too boring in a whiz-bang world. I keep my eye on the leaderboard and when there’s movement, I slow down the recording and replay it. But not […]