Archive for the 'Television' Category


Mailbag-Live/Cowboy Carter/Sopranos

RE: COWBOY CARTER SNUBBED You mentioned two venues on my home turf. To answer your question about Merriweather Post Pavilion – it’s probably the most beloved large venue in the Baltimore / DC area. People DO like going there. It’s a bit of a schlep from Baltimore, even more so from DC, but parking is easy, traffic […]

The Sopranos Documentary

Woke up this morning… Actually, the first time I saw “The Sopranos” was in the morning, just before noon on a Saturday, with the curtains drawn, I heard the opening notes of that Alabama 3 song and… I’ve watched “Breaking Bad,” never made it through “The Wire,” and there’s nothing like “The Sopranos.” I’ve never […]

Fallon Loses A Night

“NBC Pulls Back ‘Tonight Show’ to Four Nights Per Week”: https://t.ly/mEKsD Is this more about content or format? There is no appointment viewing, everything is on demand. And edge sells. But baby boomers inured to the old ways control media and they’d like you to believe otherwise. Fallon loses on both counts, content and format. […]

C.B. Strike

Trailer: https://rb.gy/30b01c This series gets better and better. I’ve never read a complete sentence of “Harry Potter.” And although I knew J.K. Rowling wrote genre books under a pseudonym, the reason I watched this series was because it had great RottenTomatoes ratings, 83/93. And you know those exceed my threshold. Now “C.B. Strike,” or just […]