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rip charles nelson riley, maker of ribald ripostes.
the universe is history.
winged migration pbs at 8pm.
sam cooke legend / wliw 8 pm this thursday
Hell is no place for happy ducks.
Hippies get the History Channel treatment tonight at 8. Will they use re-enactors, like in the barbarian docs, or just show the same old clips over and over?
The 9-screen cinerama in downtown Santa Cruz is going nuts with the advertising. Lots of TV promos before the trailers. They had an oh far too long promo for this train wreck of a travel show. It was so full of "OMG these foreign countries are not only different from the U.S., they are different from each other" that I had to openly mock it -- and I don't do that sort of thing in theaters.
lost is on the clock.
Goodbye "Gilmore Girls." The sharp-witted saga of an independent mother and daughter that added to the luster of the young WB network, will end its run after seven seasons.
PBS American Masters profiles the late great Ahmet Ertegun tonight at nine. My dad used to tell me how he knew the Ertegun brothers in DC in the early ‘40s where he was a naval civilian and they were the Turkish ambassador’s sons, hanging around the music scene. He said Ahmet always wanted to borrow his jazz records but was not so good at returning them.
Tom Poston, one of the classic veterans of TV comedy, died earlier today at his home in Los Angeles. He appeared on The Steve Allen Show in the 1950s and Newhart in the 1980s.
Poston played handyman George Utley on Newhart, and was also a regular on another Bob Newhart series, Bob. And to keep the connection to Newhart going, he played Cliff "The Peeper" Murdock on The Bob Newhart Show in the 70s. Poston also appeared on Grace Under Fire, Mork & Mindy, The Simpsons, Will & Grace, Home Improvement, Murphy Brown, Get Smart, Coach, The Love Boat, Studio One, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Just Shoot Me, That 70s Show, and dozens of other shows over the years.
Poston was married to actress Suzanne Pleshette, who played Newhart's wife Emily on The Bob Newhart Show.
final month to spay your pets.