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Mark Snow

Composer Mark Snow Explains The Origins of His Music for Some Files Marked “X”

 Fri, 08/26/2016 It’s one of THE most iconic TV themes of all time. It starts with a spooky echo, followed by 6 whistled notes. It’s from a popular sci-fi show, which was recently revived after its original 1993-2002 run. Yep, that would be The X-Files theme, composed by the talented Mark Snow . I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Mark for a few hours about his long, melifluous career; if you're a fan of TV scores and theme songs (I am!!), you're going to enjoy his interview. Mark first started...
Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall: An Appreciation

 Tue, 08/16/2016 In the 1970s, three men dominated the network television landscape. They were a holy trinity of comedic programming. Norman Lear , James L. Brooks , and Garry Marshall . We sadly lost Garry on July 19th. It is remarkable to look back at the top ten regularly scheduled programs of the 1975-76 season and see that Lear, Brooks, and Marshall were responsible for creating eight of them. They each had several other shows in the top thirty, and their influence can be found in dozens of other shows on...
Florence Henderson

Bringing Back Bradys

 Thu, 07/21/2016 “You can’t reheat a soufflé” was Paul McCartney’s wise answer in the ‘70s when people would ask him about the possibility of a Beatles reunion. Sir Paul was exactly right. When any popular band reunites for an album, it’s almost never as good as the work that came before. The same principle holds true for television shows. I’ve been fooled countless times. No matter how many times they disappointed me, television reunion shows (and we’re not talking about reboots here, we’re talking about...
68th Emmy Awards

And The 2016 Emmy Nominees Are ...

 Thu, 07/14/2016 The 2016 Primetime Emmy Award season began today with the official nomination announcement at 8:30 AM PST! Congratulations to all the nominees for the 68th Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards and a special congratulations to o ur interviewees who were nominated this year: Hank Azaria for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series ( Ray Donovan ) Tom Bergeron for Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program ( Dancing with the Stars ) Anthony Bourdain for Outstanding...
Henry Winkler

Notes on Shark Jumping

 Tue, 06/21/2016 In 1985 at The University of Michigan, a term was quietly coined that would one day enter the lexicon and forever change the way we talked about television. Sean Connolly, Jon Hein’s roommate, invented the phrase “jump the shark” to describe that heretofore undefined moment when a television show you love starts going downhill. Twelve years later, Hein created the website jumptheshark.com where users voted on and described in comments that defining moment in their favorite shows. The term, of...