The Loquacious Limey

After five years, 48 awards and 147 nominations, ‘Lost’ is finally reaching the end. And a lucky few of the millions transfixed in its spell got to hear news of that ending from the makers themselves.
Over the weekend at San Diego’s ‘ComicCon’ soiree, some of the show’s more geek-friendly fans heard producers Damon Lindelof and [...]

A struggling TV producer, whose credits include Baretta, The Man from Uncle and a whole list of old shows you would never have heard of is now suing both ABC and Touchstone Television, claiming he was the source of one of their biggest hits – Lost.
Anthony Spinner, 79, claims he was paid $30,000 by ABC [...]

In a related continuance of last week’s ABC story, the number of subscribers ‘cutting the cord’ by canceling their cable or satellite service to watch TV online is now such a threat to their mountainous profits, the industry is due to debate it at the National Cable Show conference that bows tomorrow in Washington state.
In [...]

In a welcome development from the earlier story about Fox’s online ambitions, ABC News plans to bow a daily political webcast, ‘Top Line,’ on Monday, according to Broadcasting and Cable. The 15-minute summary will be available every weekday on ABCNews.com, hosted by reporter, Rick Klein, and the Network’s political director, David Chalian. The show is [...]

In unwelcome news from the ‘What the hell were they smoking??’ department, Hollywood Reporter is saying that, for reasons best known to those who inhabit such rarified realms, Kelsey Grammer has been allowed to secure a new job.
After plumbing the shallows of his gift in Fox’s abysmal and thankfully short-lived, ‘Back to You’ the former [...]

Well, here it comes. The day this whole industry waits for and wants with a mixture of anticipation, excitement and self-serving  hype: Oscar night.
Every year, speculation is rife and blogs are filled with ‘insider tips’ on who’ll get a statue, but this year a lot of the mystery is already gone – Hugh Jackman will [...]

From a petulant birth in 1949, America’s soaps have become famous across the world for more weddings, tortured love-trios and infeasible plots than any sane mind should be asked to conceive. And today, ABC gave us a new one – Two ladies got married on ‘All My Children.’
As with all soap opera weddings, there were [...]

This is a sad day. Despite valiant efforts by dozens of blogs and web sites to rally the faithful, ABC has finally decided to kill “Pushing Daisies.” The press release doesn’t actually use the word ‘canceled,’ but PD’s odds of return or survival make the proverbial snowball’s look like a sure thing.
This is one of [...]

It was Mark Twain who said, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” And apparently the same applies to our beloved Pushing Daisies. Sources tell me PD has not received the last rights and been canceled – Yet. But ABC will be using tonight’s episode, and possibly next week’s as the final and critical [...]

The news is not good. According to those who are advised on such things, Pushing Daisies is effectively dead. Rumors of its demise have been rife for weeks, but Daisies completed its current 13-episode order this week and ABC has made no effort to order more, which is usually a bad sign.
The only viable hope [...]