A few months back, my cable system added FETV -- just a week or two before they stopped running “Peter Gunn.” I had never seen “Peter Gunn” before, but I was amazed at how good it was -- perfect little half-hour noirish stories. I was so annoyed to realize they had stopped running it.

Desi sold his half of the company to Lucy in 1962, well before either “M:I” or “Star Trek.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu_Productions

Actually, Desi had left the company by then. Lucy greenlit “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible” all by herself.

Congrats for calling “What Up With That!”

That would appear to be Michael Sheen, not Martin.

Joe Camp moved to (and I believe still lives in) the rural Tennessee county where I worked as a newspaper reporter for 34 1/2 years (I took a job with county government right as COVID-19 was hitting). I did an interview with him not long after, in 2012, and it was fun, because I’m old enough to remember seeing “For…

That’s what I was thinking. They probably had the kids say another word, and then applied the Jimmy Kimmel unnecessary censorship effect.

Yes! After I posted I remembered that he also talked about watching “The Equalizer.”

I always think of the SNL monologue Jerry Seinfeld did, soon after the end of the sitcom, where he jokingly describes his typical day in New York, and about half of it ends up being watching “Wings” reruns -- except for one point in the day when he switches over to Telemundo for “Aeropuerto,” which he explains “is…

Hanks may have actually written everything he’s credited with — but then again, songwriting credits can be deceiving. Col. Tom Parker (whom Hanks is playing in an upcoming movie!) insisted that Elvis be listed as co-writer of a few of his early hits even though Elvis had nothing to do with writing them, just so that…

I used to have a Rhein Fire sweatshirt, a souvenir of the school year that my brother and sister-in-law spent in Dusseldorf (she had some sort of fellowship to teach at the university there for a year).

The NFL did have a spring league for a while — the World League of American Football, later called just the World League, then (after they’d dropped the idea of marketing it for US consumption) NFL Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe

I had gotten takeout from our local WH last week, during the outbreak, and brought a takeout menu back with me to the office. I had a hankering for hashbrowns today, but when I called, I couldn’t get through, and then a check of the website revealed that our local WH has now temporarily closed. Now, we’re a small…

I had always heard that song parodies were fair game — Weird Al asks for permission, but it’s been noted in multiple interviews that it’s not because he has to, but because he wants to keep good relations in the music industry. Of course, anyone can file a lawsuit, and (if it’s true that CBS legal didn’t want Colbert…

Colbert made such a joke not five minutes before I clicked on this article.

There’s a regional chain called United Grocery Outlet, sort of a grocery-only Big Lots, and I feel the same way about it -- there have been several times I’ve discovered a great product at UGO, only to realize that the only reason it was at UGO was that it was being discontinued (or it was a test-market product that…

I love Aldi. Unfortunately, the nearest one to me is in the next county, 20 miles away, so I don’t shop there too regularly. I’d love it if our little town would get one.

I discovered that HQ Trivia was coming back from the dead just before the game tonight; by the time I re-downloaded the app and signed on, the countdown had started. The total jackpot was only $1,000 (the winners got 9 or 10 cents each), but it was a fun diversion. The questions all had a theme of resurrection,…

I should have thought to post something here over the weekend, but one of the most remarkable hours of quarantine TV took place Saturday night. A secondary over-the-air channel called Circle had just started running the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. This past Saturday, live from the stage of the Opry, without any…

YouTube to the rescue: