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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Television Critic Tom Shales Passes Away at 79
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Television Critic Tom Shales Passes Away at 79 Renowned television critic and Pulitzer Prize winner, Tom Shales, has passed away at the age of 79 due to complications from COVID-19 and renal failure. Born in Elgin, Illinois, on November 3, 1944, Shales marked his indelible imprint on the world of cultural criticism with…
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Ruth Ashton Taylor Dies: First Female Television Newscaster In Los Angeles Was 101
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneer as the first female television newscaster in Los Angeles and one of the first in the country, died Thursday in Northern California. She was 101. Taylor had a 50-year career in journalism and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among the honors she received in acknowledgment of…
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Multi-time champion to make WWE television comeback after nearly 3 years? Exploring the likelihood
WWE fans witnessed a surprise appearance from The Rock less than two weeks ago. The Great One showed up unannounced on RAW: Day 1. He had a physical altercation with Jinder Mahal before he dropped a major tease for a match against Roman Reigns. Can we witness another surprise return from a multi-time champion on…
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Tom Shales, Pulitzer-winning TV critic of fine-tuned wit, dies at 79
Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post who brought incisive and barbed wit to coverage of the small screen and chronicled the medium as an increasingly powerful cultural force, for better and worse, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79. The cause was complications from…
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Delayed Emmys to spotlight best of television in ‘Succession’ sendoff
LOS ANGELES, Jan 13 — The Emmy Awards, normally one of Hollywood’s September red-carpet rituals, will take the stage on Monday in a strike-delayed ceremony to honour the best of television. HBO’s Succession, about the wealthy but miserable Roy family, leads all nominees with 27 nods. It is widely expected to win its third best-drama…
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Are Transparent TVs the Next Big Thing?
At CES 2024, both LG and Samsung debuted big screen transparent TVs. Like something out of science fiction, these are absolutely as crazy as they sound. When the TVs is off, it’s like it’s no longer there. Not invisible exactly, but if you didn’t know what it was, you’d never guess that in a fraction…
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Top 75 Most Impactful Television Moments
Rank Decade Program Description 1 1960s News Item After Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronaut Neil Armstrong proclaims “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 2 2000s News Item Live coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. 3 1960s The Ed Sullivan Show The Beatles performance.…
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Dear Annie: Advice for making out the dialogue on TV
Dear Annie: I agree with “What Did You Say” that mood music in TV shows often makes it hard to hear the dialogue. I would add that background noises meant to create “realism” also frequently drown out what the actors are saying. Isn’t the dialogue important enough to make it audible? Because the problem is…
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How to Watch the 75th Emmy Awards
TV’s top honors will finally be handed out on Monday, four months later than usual. Here’s what to know. Postponed for months because of last year’s Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will finally be handed out on Monday night. The Emmys are arriving just over a week after the Golden…
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Who is John Anderson and will the referee return for the new Gladiators?
Gladiators, the beloved Saturday night TV staple, is returning to UK television screens. The reality TV show involves a host of superhuman contestants testing their strength and speed against the Gladiators through a series of gruelling physical challenges. During its original eight-year run (1992-2000), it attracted an audience of 14 million to watch ordinary people…