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ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2013
Sep
8
 
 

Mr. Peabody, the erudite dog in the Bullwinkle cartoons, had his WABAC (“way back”) machine for visiting the past. George Foster Peabody, no relation, has his own version... A very large time capsule...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
27
 
 
“Mr. Television Studies” may not be a zingy moniker, but it suits the courtly scholar and overseer of the most revered prize for TV, radio and other electronic media...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Apr
1
 
 
The 2012 programs picked for Peabody recognition included everything from a documentary about Tibetan nomads to HBO's Girls...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
1
 
 
Dale Robertson, who joined those ghost riders in the sky this week at the age of 89, was the first celebrity I ever met. And though I went on to interview hundreds more as a media and entertainment writer, it’s still one of my favorite encounters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
21
 
 
Let’s have a moment of silence for Buck Biggers, and follow it up with a rousing sing-along of the theme from his best-known contribution to television: Underdog...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
25
 
 
There were no high-tech swivel chairs at the recent Atlanta auditions for the forthcoming edition of NBC’s The Voice. Just one anonymous talent scout and a long, long line...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Dec
27
 
 
After I retired from all-hours television monitoring, I decided to try to get by somehow, some way, with just basic cable. And I even have a Top 10 for the year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Dec
1
 
 
It was November, 2004 when I met Larry Hagman for coffee at a rather nice Manhattan hotel. It was probably the most intimate moment I ever had interviewing a celebrity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Nov
29
 
 
Two and a Half Men finally made me laugh. Well, OK, the half man did. It was a first, and as a much-appreciated bonus, I didn’t even have to watch the show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Nov
21
 
 
It’s hard to imagine laugh lines that flip about abortion in a prime-time entertainment show today, but Maude’s most famous episode actually aired without creating a huge stir in November 1972...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Noel Holston

Noel Holston wrote about TV, radio and popular culture for the Orlando Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Newsday before going to grow wine bottles near Athens, GA.
 
 
 
 

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