College football bowl season doesn't burst onto the TV scene as much as it simply ooozes into our collective consciousness. Lots of factors come into play...The bowls don't have the convenient packaging of the ballyhooed March Madness...

2010

Nov

TIGER, LURKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT By Gerald Jordan

This is a grab straight from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs. Set your clocks for "ridiculous" time and get ready to watch Tiger Woods take one last swipe at dragging his season from the wreckage of 2010. His chance for redemption starts at midnight ET Thursday and extends to 4 a.m. Friday on The Golf Channel for round one of The World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions tournament...

2010

Sep

NBC'S 'UNDERCOVERS' SIGNALS CHANGE IN NETWORK "CREATIVE REASONING" By Gerald Jordan

The conversation still is vivid in my mind. CBS had just previewed Scarecrow and Mrs. King for television critics from across the country and the hour-long drama looked as though it would be popular...The time was 1983, and African American actors still were pushed to the margins when television networks looked to fill leading dramatic roles. The reasons, though, seemed flimsy...

2010

Sep

IS TIME-TRAVELLING "EUREKA" STILL AHEAD OF ITS TIME? OR, AT LEAST, AHEAD OF THE BROADCAST NETWORKS? By Gerald Jordan

Only those whose lives are caught up in the thick web of conspiracies would surmise that Eureka is on the SyFy channel because its casting is too avant garde for network TV. Count me among those spiders. Well, maybe I'm not committed to the true belief that a conspiracy exists, but the question does arise: Why can't network TV dramas be bolder in defying convention?...

2010

Sep

FEAST, NOT FAMINE: DO YOU BELIEVE IN (COLLEGE FOOTBALL) MIRACLES? By Gerald Jordan

Burp. Goodness! Pardon me. Did Thanksgiving come early? Even Canadian T-day? The feast has been on since Thursday night, and college football fans across the land have been stuffing themselves with a cable TV cornucopia of football from colleges large and small, prominent and obscure (how else can Elon be described?)...

2010

Aug

GROWING UP WITH BLACK & WHITE, AND "COLORED," TV By Gerald Jordan

The memories seem funny now. My brothers, my sister and I can't help but laugh every time we relive the days when Uncle Shag would call on us to verify his suspicions about what he saw on TV. That was during the late 1950s and early 1960s in Malvern, Ark. It was an era of visions in black & white from the standpoint of both the picture on TV and the even sharper contrast of the segregated life we lived. It was a time when African Americans were rendered invisible on TV, except in some spars

2010

Apr

GUEST BLOG #85: GERALD B. JORDAN ON THE 2010 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT By Gerald Jordan

The planets were aligned properly, the perfect cast was assembled, the weather was astonishingly beautiful and Augusta National, which yesterday could have been taped for a demonstration of high definition TV, was equal to the task. Script writers could not have penned a more perfect Masters yesterday...

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