October 2005

The official word, from ABC today:
The summer hit “Dancing with the Stars” will return with an eight-week run, beginning Thursday, January 5 (8:00 p.m., ET), it was announced today by Andrea Wong, executive vice president, Alternative Programming, Specials and Late-Night, ABC Entertainment. This summer’s only true hit series, “Dancing” will replace the action drama “Alias,” [...]

With the availability of information across the Internet, some news organizations across media have become ever more focused on the local angle — either a story about something in the news organization's backyard, or a local element of a national or international story. It provides a way of giving a story a unique context, as [...]

Has "Logan" gotten a bad name? Think of Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry) on "Gilmore Girls," who is so bad for Rory. And troubled, cynical Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) on "Veronica Mars." And, if you've read some of my e-mail lately, you would add Mike Logan (Chris Noth) on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Some fans [...]

When I go on vacation, it usually takes me a couple of days to start relaxing for real; naturally, by then I can see the end of the vacation and begin agonizing over all I'll have to do when I get back. I am, in other words, not a good vacationer. A day off — [...]

On Thursday, I sat in on a conference call with Lucy Lawless about "Vampire Bats," a CBS movie she's co-starring in. It was not heavily attended. In these calls, you punch in a code to get in line to ask a question; I punched in well after other people had had a chance, so things [...]

I was looking at an upcoming re-release of "Sex and the City" on DVD when I noticed a significant change in one episode. Samantha, a social outcast after a prominent matron caught her with the matron's husband, redeemed herself by making contact with John F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy himself did not appear in the episode, [...]

A couple of calls have come in this morning from people wanting to donate books to a library that "Three Wishes" helped set up in Mineral City. (I have a story about it in today's Beacon Journal, which you should be able to see here.)
It made me feel good about going to the library opening, [...]