“Hot in Cleveland” Is On Fire

TVLand announced that it has picked up its original, situation comedy, Hot in Cleveland starring Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, and yes, Betty White, for another 20 episode season.  Not since the Cuyahoga River caught fire or since LeBron James clicked his ruby Nikes for Miami, has the city of Cleveland been any hotter. [...]

ABM-a-thon: A Web Series Alternative to Financial Regulation

The biggest obstacle for the web series is obvious…money.  Budget becomes a four letter word of limitation.  Production teams are forced to redirect their creative side from scripts, sets, and location, to the grim task of spinning the corporate short-straw into sponsorship fools’ gold.  As a result, web series creators are faced with the reluctant [...]

What You Should Be Watching: Las Aparicio

I have to preface this review with a muchas gracias to one of my international readers who turned me on to the Mexican telenovela, Las Aparicio.  The sexy soap opera chronicles the lives and loves of three generations of extremely strong, successful, and at times flawed, women who share a family tradition of all giving [...]

Rent-a-Friend? Really?

I was just beginning to shake off my less than three cups of caffeine morning fog when I heard on the Today show a segment referencing renting a friend.  Surely, I must be in some blood sugar stupor of post-Independence barbecue bliss.  Really?  There is a website where you can rent a friend for the [...]

Season 2…that’s a wrap for Anyone, But Me

Curtain Up supposedly finalizes Season 2 of the web series, Anyone But Me, but I perceive the main title as a Miller-ism, an aptly, writer-applied, stage name signaling the real show is about to begin…for the actors and the audience.  And here it comes.  The observations in this last episode are not definitively declarative statements, [...]

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