Entertainment reporter living at the end of very cold Canada. Proud owner of a diploma in journalism and just about every CD by John Williams ever released. Favorite directors are Spielberg, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, Fellini, Lynch and Fincher. Twin Peaks, Sopranos and Six Feet Under are the greatest TV dramas ever crafted and I love 90s sitcoms such as Spin City, Sports Night, Newsradio, Seinfeld and even that one with Deadpool working in the pizza place. Click linkies below to follow me.
The term “bad boy of rock” has been lauded on everyone from Mick Jagger to Billy Idol to Gene Simmons but only one bad boy of rock may have actually lived the life: Warren Zevon. Zevon was a genius lyricist whose biggest hit in the ’70s concerned a disturbed young man who performed a series […] More
A pilot can make or break a show, and if it’s not so great, it can turn off any viewer from watching the rest of the series. Join 25YL as we take a deep dive into TV pilots that we found lacking in our Powering Through the Pilot series. This week, join Jason Sheppard as […] More
London-born actor Scott Butler has had a wonderful 2019. With his delightful turn as “Oliver” on the acclaimed AMC series Lodge 49 (described by fans as Better Call Saul meets The Big Lebowski), Butler has displayed an unmistakable talent playing comedy, drama and horror. Butler, who studied at the Aaron Speiser Acting Studio, the William […] More
Some shows start off great but end up sticking around too long. Whether they jump the shark, or just otherwise overstay their welcome, this is the theme of our Cancelled Too Late series. This week we look at Spin City, a show which ended on all the right notes when its leading man departed and […] More
As part of our ‘Cancelled Too Soon’ series, we looked back at the 1995-97 Fox sitcom Ned and Stacey starring Thomas Hayden Church, Debra Messing, Nadia Dajani and Greg Germann. The wonderfully talented Dajani played Amanda Moyer, sister to Stacey (Messing) and wife of Eric (Germann) who for the life of her, can’t understand why […] More
“Anybody who can’t make money off Sports Night should get out of the money-making business.” – “Quo Vadimus,” the series finale of Sports Night which aired May 16, 2000. It has now been close to 19 years since Casey McCall and Dan Rydell, hosts of the nightly series Sports Night, said their final goodnights from […] More
For 33 years, David Letterman has been making audiences laugh with his irreverent sense of humor and lunacy. In May, 2015, after 6000 episodes, more than twice as many guests, several hundred cans of SPAM given away, 150 Regis appearances, some of the most memorable (and contentious) celebrity interviews (Madonna, Joaquin, Farrah) of our time […] More
1995 was a remarkable year for television comedy. The two highest-rated comedy shows in TV history, Seinfeld and Friends were soaring high—earning as many as 25 million viewers per episode. In March of that year, NBC debuted Newsradio, a critically-lauded series because of its sharp writing and cast of extremely talented performers. In September, a […] More
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