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2008
Nov
12
 
 
It hasn't taken long at all -- less than a month -- for David Alan Grier to turn his new "Chocolate News" comedy series into Must-See TV. Exhibit A: The day after Barack Obama was elected, Grier opened his program with an emphatic, unbleeped two-word phrase. The first word was "Holy." The second word rhymed with "fit." And then he screamed with joy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
11
 
 
I don't post a video link often -- about once every vernal equinox, actually -- but this one definitely is TV Worth Watching...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
10
 
 
Expect to see this blog entry headline more and more this month, because my book manuscript on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" is due at the end of the month...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
6
 
 
November 5 marked the first anniversary of this TV WORTH WATCHING website. I would have mentioned it then, but there was this pesky presidential election thing to write about instead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
5
 
 
Today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough likened last night's Barack Obama victory to another internationally televised event that took place in his lifetime: the moon landing in 1969. That's quite a comparison -- but there's no denying that, last night, the whole world was watching...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
4
 
 
...And if you want to share your voting experience -- not for whom you voted, necessarily, but the locatlon and conditions of your polling place, unless you voted early -- feel free to fire off a sentence or two. We might be able to compile an early snapshot of what's happening nationwide, even if from a very small and skewed sample...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Nov
3
 
 
Tomorrow, the election. Tonight, one last chance to revel in the inspired political parodies from NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Don't miss it, because it's not only TV reacting instantly to history -- it's TV history, as well...