2008 Fall TV Preview

Less is more on TV this season, at least when it comes to new shows. That’s because most of the shows starting up this fall really aren’t “new” at all.
There are only 18 bona fide “new” scripted series premiering this year (last year, there were almost 30). Some aren’t so much new as they are [...]

Write What You Know

“I’m thinking about writing a book, but haven’t figured out what to write about yet.”  That’s a statement made to me quite often when I meet people during signings, a writer’s workshop or readings.  It has always puzzled me.  I guess it’s the ‘what came first, the chicken or the egg?’ thing.  Usually something happens that I’m [...]

Remembering William Conrad and Isaac Hayes on TV CONFIDENTIAL

In you case you missed it, last week’s edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL is now available on the archives page of our website, www.tvconfidential.net. Paul Robert Coyle joined Frankie and me in our look back at the career of William Conrad, from his radio work on Gunsmoke, to his behind-the-scenes work as head of Warner Bros. Television, from [...]

Standing His Ground: Brian Copeland finds humor while reliving the pain of isolation in “Not a Genuine Black Man”

Brian Copeland is one of the top voices on KGO radio, but he also knows his television. When he first developed Not a Genuine Black Man – his riveting one-man show about growing up black in San Leandro in the early 1970s, at a time when the East Bay suburb was notoriously 99.9 percent white [...]

No Wonder I Fell In Love

Ansel Adam’s Photo
Art is both love and friendship and understanding: the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness, which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds [...]

TV CONFIDENTIAL: Premiering Tuesday, Aug. 12 on Share-a-Vision Radio

In case you missed it, last week we announced that Dave White has officially handed over the reins of Talking Television, and that Frankie Montiforte and I will be taking over as hosts of the program beginning Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio. As we also announced last week, the [...]

EL DUENDE PARTICULAR

Al doblar la curva del río, entre la espesura de hayas, hay una gran piedra plana, redonda, semiroída en uno de sus cantos. Sentado en ella, apoyado sobre la cagiga milenaria puede contemplarse el río. El agua juega y arremolina espuma entre los surcos de las rocas enmohecidas. Un hilo [...]