Paying Attention: The Big Day is closing in. Just a few more nights of viewing time for Christmas Specials. For those keeping score, here’s a list of the top 10 Christmas Specials of all time, as selected by WatchMojo. Binge them all…you’ve got time!. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube. Posted originally by WatchMojo. …
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Churchill on Christmas
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection…..”
Bob Hope Christmas Special 1968
Paying Attention. The Bob Hope Christmas special from 1968, the last in our three-part look back at the quintessential American entertainer (who just happened to be born in England). This show features Glen Campbell, Carol Lawrence, Wally Cox, Nancy Ames and long-time sidekick Jerry Colonna. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube. (thanks guys). Posted by …
Air Apparent: How Jimmy Fallon Won Late Night
Press Clips. Late night television is a treasure trove for the networks, a minefield for the entertainers who work in that time slot and an ever-changing cultural zeitgeist for the viewers. The old guard has now officially left the building (Leno, Letterman, Stewart) and a new crew is working to make the time slot theirs. …
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Bob Hope Christmas Special 1967
Paying Attention: This post features another one of Bob Hope’s justifiably famous Christmas specials, this one broadcast in 1967 and filmed on one of Bob’s USO Tours during the contentious Vietnam war. Hope is joined by Racquel Welch, Elaine Dunne, Phil Crosby and Barbara McNair, among others. Hope did over 50 USO tours in his …
C.O.M.T. X, The Best of COMT
The Hunt For New Music (Christmas Edition). One last Christmas playlist for the season, this one, like the preceding one, contains the very best of the previous Christmas One More Time lists.
SNL On Christmas
A new classic, from Saturday Night Live…..
COMT X : The Best of C.O.M.T.
The Hunt for New Music.(Holiday Edition) A holiday season’s worth of playlists ends with a double feature: two playlists composed of the very best Christmas and holiday music. Here’s the first of two. The second one will be posted tomorrow.
Merry Christmas from Texas…..
Paying Attention: Texas is a different kind of place. It’s actually more of a country than a state, and within Texas there is a rich diversity of cultures and art and personalities. It’s a state that accepts a very wide range of personalities…you can be outlandishly eccentric in Texas and no one will think twice …
One Night In London
Paying Attention: (London, 14 May 1998). It is 9:00 o’clock in the morning and I am walking into the headquarters of SKY TV, outside London, with my good friend and long-time working partner, Michael Brock. We are there to create a new type of TV Guide for Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV, a satellite TV …