Saturday, June 27, 2026

Television

Grammy Awards Sneakily Pull Off Nearly All- Female Show With Alicia Keys as a Fine Host and No Overt Announcement

The Grammy Awards were very sneaky this year. With no fanfare they offered a nearly all female show with very few male acts. The show...

“Song of Parkland” Tries to Find Some Harmony After Last Year’s Senseless Tragedy at Florida High School

When we ran into Melody Herzfeld at the Tony Awards, she seemed stunned at the place history had taken her. This week at a...

Grammys: Lady Gaga In, Ariana Grande Out, and It’s All Good

Lady Gaga has chosen the Grammys over BAFTA. She'll perform Shallow because she isn't shallow. Ariana Grande is shallow, however. She's off the show because...

NBC Decides Live Naked Hippie Musical “Hair” Isn’t for Them, No Longer Mentions JLo “Bye Bye Birdie,” Aiming for Family Fare Now

NBC has cancelled its live musical, "Hair." Apparently no one told them it was about hippies, and naked ones at that. It was supposed...

Super Bowl Ratings for Patriots-Rams Averaged 80 Million Viewers, A Historic Low But Still, Really, a Lot of People

The Super Bowl ratings are in. It's good news and bad news. The bad news is that the numbers are way down, historically low, and...

Tragic: Young and the Restless Star Kristoff St. John Dead at 52, Two Time Emmy Award Winner Suffered from Depression, Took His Own Life

This is really sad, heartbreaking news. Kristoff St. John, a star of the Young and the Restless for 19 years, has been found dead...

Directors Guild DGA Awards: “Roma” Alfonso Cuaron Wins Best Feature, But Big Surprises in First Feature (“Eighth Grade”), Documentary (“Three Identical Strangers”), TV Comedy...

Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director for "Roma." He will win the Oscar, but not necessarily Best Picture. The DGA Awards have produced some big surprises...

Grammy Awards Will Salute Motown’s 60th Anniversary with TV Special Taped Two Days After Show

Maybe the greatest TV Music special ever was "Motown 25," taped back in 1983. That's when Michael Jackson moonwalked across the stage to "Billie...