... and her name is Jeannie Klisiewicz. She’s the Good Cheer assistant on Ellen, and Ellen DeGeneres dispatched her to surprise a big-hearted, hard-working second grade teacher in Leesburg, Va., not only with a little airtime on her favorite daytime talk show, but with a few presents, too...

2015

Dec

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU By Jonathan Storm

British comedy team Greg Haiste and Marie Lawrence have put together an hilarious spoof Star Wars trailer in the style of naturalist British director Ken Loach and his 1969 film Kes, complete with appropriately weird Yorkshire dialect...

2015

Nov

THIS IS NO JENNY FROM THE BLOCK By Jonathan Storm

As part of a BBC special hosted by Graham Norton, producers rounded up nine Adele impersonators, supposedly to audition for a reality show. They’re a varied lot... including one extremely nervous woman introduced as Jenny...

2015

Nov

RACHEL MADDOW'S CRYSTAL BALL By Jonathan Storm

People waking up Wednesday morning to news that police had raided an apartment in the Paris suburbs, and killed two terrorists, were perhaps not surprised, if they had seen this Monday night introduction to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show...

2015

Nov

WHO CALLED IT “THE BOOB TUBE”? By Jonathan Storm

Stephen Colbert pondered the blurry line between art and porn on TV after the recent $170 million sale for Modigliani’s painting “Nu Couche”, which depicts a nude woman lying on a couch...

2015

Sep

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BERESFORD ARE STREAMING By Jonathan Storm

Tuesday (Sept. 15) was Agatha Christie’s 125^th birthday, which is as good a time as any to trot out TV shows featuring a couple of her more obscure sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford...

2015

Sep

THE LATEST SEASON OF 'LONGMIRE' IS RELEASED FROM ITS NEW NETFLIX HOME By Jonathan Storm

Death comes to Longmire in the first episode of Season 4, but Longmire itself was dead for a time when A&E decided a year ago its large audience was too old and too difficult to sell to advertisers...

2015

Jul

THE DIFFICULTIES OF A SIMPLE LIFE ON 'THE LAST ALASKANS' By Jonathan Storm

Do not bet Heimo Korth your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow. Where Korth lives, the sun goes down in November and doesn’t come back until January...

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