October 2006

Before we get to anything else, here's the latest (and hysterically funny) check out what the "Nobody's Watching" gang has done with "Lost" in this video. Hysterically funny, and with a surprise guest.
Well, not so much a surprise now.
Anyway, because Thursday was a night of reruns, the bride and I were able to get to [...]

From today's announcements:
NBC will return the Emmy Award-nominated "Scrubs" and move freshman comedy "30 Rock" to Thursday nights beginning November 30 to form a new two-hour 8-10 p.m. (ET) comedy block with "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office." The change will follow a special super-sized night of comedy two weeks earlier on Thursday, November [...]

Michael J. Fox has weighed into a political race in this spot. It's very powerful and makes its point both in what Fox says and in how he looks.
It reminds me of some other forceful ads from bygone days, especially a couple of anti-smoking spots. One featured William Talman, who played Hamilton Burger on "Perry [...]

After I wrote about a new "Daniel Boone" DVD in a recent column, the following arrived in the e-mail:
Do you know someone who used to run around in that iconic coonskin cap? If so, the Fess Parker Daniel Boone gift basket, available at www.fessparker.com, may be the perfect holiday gift. The Daniel Boone series recently [...]

Some of you may have noticed last night that the name on this blog as changed to "The HeldenFiles Online." Although I wrote about things other than TV under the old "Beacon TV" name, the change aims to make clearer that the blog will range wide on cultural issues. ("Kuo Time," below, is one example.) [...]

For the last several days we've been hearing about David Kuo, once the director of faith-based initiatives for President Bush, who has described in some detail his disenchantment with the Bush administration.
In an excerpt from his new book in Time magazine, Kuo said: "George W. Bush, the man, is a person of profound faith and [...]

Last night the bride and I went to the Students Against Multiple Sclerosis lip-synching fund-raiser over at the University of Akron. I hope someone gets YouTube a video of Brian Dominguez's splendid performance. But, once again, it meant a night of delayed viewing. We checked out the "Dancing With the Stars" results (which had no [...]