The loss of Grant Tinker this week feels very personal to me – even though I never even met the man, and not because so many of the shows he was responsible for in the Seventies and Eighties...

2016

Oct

LOOKING BACK, CLASSIC TV HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY – FOR COMMUNITY AND POLICE By Ed Martin

A professor of mine once said that films are “cultural artifacts.” They capture the details of the period in which they are set, reflect the social mores of the day...

2016

Jun

THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM CORDEN, 'HAMILTON' AND THE '70TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS' By Ed Martin

Broadcast television accomplished something quite remarkable Sunday night; something that proved there is still great life in the old “dinosaur” of media...

2016

May

MOURNING THE LOSS OF ‘THE GOOD WIFE’ By Ed Martin

What’s to become of broadcast television now that CBS’ The Good Wife has reached the end of its run? It’s an important question...

2016

Apr

WE SAY GOODBYE (PERHAPS) TO 'AMERICAN IDOL' By Ed Martin

La’Porsha for the win! Even at the last, American Idol can get me (and millions of others) caught up in the excitement of it all...

2016

Mar

A FOND FAREWELL TO PATTY DUKE By Ed Martin

It seems that every passing week this year brings word of the passing of yet another great television star of yesterday or not that long ago...Garry Shandling...The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr. And now Patty Duke...

2016

Feb

SUDDENLY BINGE-WORTHY SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES ABOUND By Ed Martin

The overload of quality television shows no sign of waning anytime soon, even if critics are collapsing under the burden of it all and ordinary people are starting to push back...

2016

Feb

FOX’S 'GREASE' WAS MORE THAN A MUSICAL: IT WAS TV’S FIRST LIVE MOVIE By Ed Martin

For as far back as I can remember, Grease has been “the word.” And yet, during Sunday night’s three-hour live production of that campy pop-culture classic, many other words came to mind: “Dazzling,” “thrilling,” “ground-breaking,”...

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