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End of an era as late-night TV grows on cable
By ADAM BUCKMAN It’s the end of the world as we know it. TBS’ decision, announced today, to mount two back-to-back late-night shows on weekday evenings means we’ve reached another one of those...
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Remembering Rooney: My favorite Andy story
By ADAM BUCKMAN This is my favorite Andy Rooney story — the time he publicly lambasted Larry Tisch, the owner of CBS and a man who could have easily fired him, as a “slumlord” who ruined CBS. It was...
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Inside the origins of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
CBS EXECS HATED SHOW, PREDICTED IT WOULD FLOP By ADAM BUCKMAN In a timely interview (timely as far as the holiday season is concerned), “Charlie Brown Christmas” producer Lee Mendelson reveals how this...
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Check out these stories on Xfinity.Comcast.net
By ADAM BUCKMAN Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of television — that’s our mission, whether it be here on TVHowl.com or here, at Xfinity.Comcast.net. And while we’ve been focusing...
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Aftermath: 4 million Leno viewers up for grabs
By ADAM BUCKMAN It’s the big question underlying the Jay Leno-Jimmy Fallon switch on “The Tonight Show”: WWTTSFMVD? That ungainly (and none too clever) acronym means this: What will “The Tonight...
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Quiet giant: An encounter with Sid Caesar
The following excerpt on Sid Caesar — who died Wednesday at age 91 — is adapted from my forthcoming (hopefully) book titled “JERK: How I Wasted My Life Watching Television,” my own personal history of...
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An aging generation mourns loss of Jay, Dave
By ADAM BUCKMAN What about us? We are the ones who have lost our late-night TV. We are the group for whom the Golden Age of late-night television is not necessarily represented by Johnny Carson (though...
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Last Week on MediaPost: My 5 Blogs 4/20-4/24
Catch up with all five of my MediaPost.com TV blogs from last week — starting with my recap of the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas a week earlier, and winding up...
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Curated: My 9 Stories From the NAB in Las Vegas
From the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas last month to the TV upfronts in New York (that actually began back on Feb. 26 with Nickelodeon and ended just last week, on May...
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Last Week on MediaPost: My 5 Blogs 5/11-5/15
From David Letterman and Queen Latifah to M. Night Shyamalan and “Mad Men,” here are all five of my MediaPost.com TV blogs from last week: Monday, May 11: How’s Dave Doing? We Asked His Friend, Tom...
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The Greatest David Letterman Story Ever Told
SUMMER 1995: WHEN A CERTAIN NEWSPAPER TV SECTION WAGED WAR ON THE LETTERMAN SHOW By ADAM BUCKMAN The memories come flooding back in this final week of David Letterman’s CBS “Late Show,” which has its...
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This Week’s Blogs: Letterman Finale Dominates
David Letterman’s farewell was such an important milestone this week that I got three TV blogs out of it. Plus, “Mad Men” said good-bye too, and one column — on Tuesday — was given over to the George...
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Four-Day Week in Review: 4 MediaPost TV Blogs
The work week was only four days long, but this week’s columns managed to encompass everything from the upsetting “19 Kids and Counting” scandal to the annual Book Expo in New York. In case you missed...
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From ‘Caitlyn’ to ‘Colbert’: This Week’s TV Blogs
Bringing you the constant variety of television: This week’s MediaPost blogs included columns on two, new original dramas — “UnREAL” on Lifetime and the cyber-thriller “Mr. Robot” on USA Network — plus...
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Four-day Week, Four MediaPost Blogs: 6/29-7/2
Out of four MediaPost TV blogs this week, two were devoted to Donald Trump and his woes after he blasted Mexican immigrants. Read them both with the links below — plus CBS’s “Zoo” and PBS’s “Poldark.”...
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‘2000s’ Newsmakers Convene for NatGeo Panel
Five newsmakers from the tumultuous decade of the 2000s came together on stage last week to talk about their stories and promote the new documentary in which they all appear — “The 2000s: A New...
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Tragedy In Local TV News Dominates Week
This week’s TV blogs gravitated from summer leisure — a mid-August tour of QVC’s mammoth studio complex in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania — to a summer tragedy: The on-air killing of two young...
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In Just Four Days, Much To Write About: 9/8-9/11
THIS WEEK’S MEDIAPOST TV BLOGS NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2015 — Stephen Colbert’s debut on the CBS “Late Show” was easily the most attention-getting TV story of the week, although it was an unusually busy...
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Fall Season Gets Under Way: This Week’s Blogs
NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2015 — With the fall TV season having its official start this week, the emphasis was on reviews of new shows in three out of five of this week’s MediaPost TV blogs — Monday, Tuesday...
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It Makes Ya Wanna Scream: This Week’s TV Blogs
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2015 — The new fall television season continued with new prime-time shows, a new “Daily Show” host and a new way of spinning the ratings results. I covered it all this week in my...
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