Hollywood Deep

I am doing some work on ABC’s new show “Pushing Daisies”, and although it has been a challenging job, there are high hopes amongst the production crew. The feeling is that we are working on something a little different, a show that has a tone and a look that could set it apart. The early [...]

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Hayden Panettiere, The Cheerleader on “Heroes”
OK the television season officially starts this week. There have been a few shows that have already premiered, but tonight the flood gates open. The highlights of the week for me and some of my favorite shows “Heroes” Monday night, “Boston Legal” Tuesday night, “The Office” Thursday night. Not much [...]

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“The Sopranos” finished its seven-season 10-year run fittingly, as the outstanding dramatic series of the year at Sunday’s 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. David Chase’s show, long touted as one of the finest series in television history about a mobster coping with mixing the challenges of his domestic life and running his crime family. [...]

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Longtime TV host and game-show producer Merv Griffin passed away yesterday at the age of 82. He had been battling prostate cancer since 1996.
I must be getting old, the talk show hosts of my youth keep dying off. I spent many an afternoon watching the “Merv Griffin Show”, after school with nothing to do. When [...]

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After having a couple of months to think about it, and come to grips that “The Sopranos” is over for good. David Chase’s final episode’s brilliance was THE perfect ending. Was it what it seemed? Did it just end with a family dinner, and life went on? But why did it just cut to black? [...]

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Normally I could care less about the ridiculous woman’s daytime talk show The View. I’m not sure how women even can stomach those broads yacking it up every day. Since my friend Whoopi Goldberg has replaced blow hard, Rosie O’Donnell, I thought I would wish her luck. Whoopi has had it a little rough the [...]

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Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show highlights
Tom Snyder, talk show host and news anchor, died today in San Fransisco, from complications associated with leukemia, at the age of 71. I normally try to keep it light in this space, I don’t cover many deaths. Tom Snyder, however is someone I grew up with, watching him every night. [...]

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The prime time Emmy Award nominations were announced today. HBO’s The Sopranos, led the way with 15 nominations in for their final season, including best drama. James Gandolfini, who played the emotionally damaged mob boss on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” and Edie Falco, who played his wife, both received top acting nominations. Joining Gandolfini, in a [...]

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The original HBO “The Sopranos” poster 1999
The last word on The Sopranos, and I’m done with it…for now.
Millions of fans of the HBO television mafia series “The Sopranos” watched the hit drama’s final episode two Sundays ago amid a flurry of speculation over the fate of its top mobster, Tony Soprano. Producer, creator writer, director [...]

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It’s Sunday night and The Sopranos are done for good. It’s hard for me not to anticipate another installment of the show on HBO tonight. Just one more, I want to know what happened. The story’s conclusion, as it stands now will forever be shrouded in mystery. While watching he final episode, I was feeling [...]

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