The hockey fanatic in me can't let this one pass without promotion. Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of hall-of-famer Jacques Plante donning the first true goalie mask in an NHL game...

2009

Oct

FLICK PICKS: HALLOWEEN HORRORS! By Diane Werts

Fright flicks are all over the place Friday and Saturday, in places you'd expect (TCM, AMC) and places you wouldn't (like PBS stations). Choices run the gamut from classic Boris Karloff to blaxploitation's Blacula to Troma's Toxic Avenger...

2009

Oct

COMING UP: GERVAIS HOSTS THE GLOBES By Diane Werts

Are you having a laugh? You certainly should when Ricky Gervais hosts January's freewheeling Golden Globe Awards ceremony on NBC...

2009

Oct

THE TIME HAS COME: I'M GROUNDING MYSELF UNTIL MY ROOM IS CLEAN By David Bianculli

The Best Bets will continue daily, but I'm taking a few days from writing a blog because I just can't stand it any more. Not the blogging -- the mess. My basement office, and everything in it, desperately needs some attention...

2009

Oct

GUEST BLOG #59: TOM BRINKMOELLER LEADS US ON A "NATURE" WALK By Tom Brinkmoeller

[Bianculli here: This weekend, contributing writer Tom Brinkmoeller tracks down the executive producer of the long-running PBS series "Nature," to explain the birds and the bees. Or, at least, the bees and the stallions...]

2009

Oct

IN MEMORIAM: VIC MIZZY, SOUPY SALES By Diane Werts

They're sucking all the fun out of TV. "They" would be the grim reapers of time and evolution. While the latter agent of change seems intent on making TV as grim and/or convoluted as possible...

2009

Oct

POSTSEASON BASEBALL DELIVERS DRAMA, IF YOU CAN SEE IT, FIND IT -- OR STAY AWAKE FOR IT By David Bianculli

A friend called Monday night, knowing I was a big Phillies fan, to share in the joy of Philadelphia's bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out comeback victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, right after Jimmy Rollins hit the game-winning two-run double. The phone call woke me up. I'd passed out on the couch the inning before, after a long teaching day...

2009

Oct

BACK FROM MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD -- AND WHAT A WARM, INSPIRING PLACE IT WAS By David Bianculli

I just spent a few glorious days at the Fred Rogers Center, an inspiring facility at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. It's a place devoted to the development of children, and worthwhile children's media, and it's populated by employees, executives, fellows and advisors that leave no doubt that Mister Rogers' mission is in the best of hands...

2009

Oct

NEW MONTY PYTHON MEGA-DOCUMENTARY: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY ENTERTAINING By David Bianculli

Beginning Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET, The Independent Film Channel presents a six-day, six-hour documentary series honoring the 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus. You can expect new details, big laughs, fresh insights and, yes, you can even expect the Spanish Inquisition...

2009

Oct

SCARY STUFF: HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVALS By Diane Werts

It isn't just Monty Python hitting the air on IFC this Sunday. That's also the night the channel starts its Indie Screams festival as we head toward Halloween...

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