“Hanging with Dr. Z”
Did you know Dr. Zaius has a YouTube talk show? He does and you can watch it here!
Bruce Campbell has some things to say!
Bruce Campbell tries to remember lines from his roles at Variety and talks about new-ish doings like Hysteria and Hallmark movies with Den of Geek. Listen here and here.
“Why was the Miami Vice pilot so good?”
At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz writes about the 1984 premiere of Miami Vice. “Created by writer Anthony Yerkovich, helmed by filmmaker Thomas Carter, and guided by executive producer Michael Mann, Vice was ostensibly a police procedural: Crockett is a deep-cover operative based in Miami who partners with Ricardo […]
BBC Archive: “Nineteen Eighty-Four: the Controversial 1954 BBC adaptation”
The BBC Archive has video of a 1965 discussion of 1984 (1954). “Late Night Line-Up looks back on the 1954 BBC television adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasance and André Morell. The television play was performed live on the evening of Sunday […]
Love in the Age of Doctor Who
Being a Whovian was one of my principal personality traits from 1985 until about 2020, and though I have a very casual relationship with the show now–which is truly about me, not it, I am old and busy, guys–people still come to me with little offerings and thoughts […]
BBC Archive: “Max Headroom–TV Host of the Future?”
BBC Archive shares a video segment of Terry Wogan on Max Headroom. “Terry Wogan comes face to face with the future of television presenting, the world’s first ‘computer-generated’ host, Max Headroom. Does the emergence of Max spell the end for homo sapiens as chat show hosts? Originally broadcast […]
The Cultural Gutter 