The Loquacious Limey

[The Limey] – In the final denouement of what may be Hollywood’s worst-kept secret since the personal life choices of the late Liberace, Will and Grace actor Sean Hayes has finally agreed that he’s gay.
When the now 39-year old actor first appeared on the screen in 1998 as Will’s constantly unemployed neighbor, Jack McFarland, speculation [...]

[The Limey] That beacon of truth and incisive reporting, TMZ is running a story that NBC and Jay Leno have struck a deal which puts Jay firmly back on the throne he should never have left.
The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, says that story’s hokum and no deal has been reached.
So, who to believe?
The whole tiresome spat [...]

Today may be a very dark day in this history of this nation’s TV. The New York Times is reporting that nine months of coercing, cajoling and infeasible cash have persuaded General Electric to let Comcast buy NBC.
This potential downside of this deal is not far short of a nightmare – The people so underfunded [...]

Henry Gibson, whose diverse portrayals of the full spectrum of life from Nazis to poets delighted and endeared him to three generations, has died at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73.
Born James Bateman, on September 21, 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvnia, Henry took his stage name from the Norwegian [...]

For seventeen years, Jay Leno ruled late-night with no serious contenders. Since relinquishing his throne to Conan O’Brien, the NBC suits have been faced by a complex conundrum – How to stop Coco’s ratings from tanking once Jay debuts in the fall?
Conan’s rendering of a show that is one of NBC’s biggest cash-cows has been [...]

NBC’s ‘Nightly News’ anchor, and Jay Leno’s most finely-honed straight-man, Brian Williams, has been rightly selected to receive this year’s Walter Cronkite Award.
Mr Williams, who has often said he regarded Walter Cronkite as a childhood idol, will receive the award during a luncheon at Arizona State University’s ‘Walter Cronkite School of Journalism’ in Phoenix on [...]

And so it begins. TNT’s ongoing insult ‘Trust Me’ seems to have started a trend, and this is where I need to record that a regrettable chance for “I told you so!” is now almost certain as part of our future.
The highlight of last weekend, of course, was the football game, which was frankly amazing. [...]

In news that may seriously depress most of you [And if it doesn't, it should,] NBC has announced they’ve ordered twelve more televisual insults from Howie Mandel.
The show, ‘Howie Do It,’ is a US/Canadian co-production, organized between HDI Productions, Hallock Healey Entertainment, Suddenly See-More Productions, 3-Arts Entertainment, Canwest Broadcasting and Alevy Productions. And Howie and [...]

In the rarefied air around Burbank, Johnny Carson is considered a legend. And not only is Jay Leno his worthy successor, he’s also [as his ratings so often prove] the most successful and popular host of his kind. In his hands the Tonight Show earns NBC $250m a year; Which you’d think would be enough, [...]

In welcome [and long overdue!] news from the, ‘Yes, Scarlett, there is a God!’ department, we read that one of the most shameful insults ever visited upon the collected intellect of an innocent and unmedicated audience, has finally been put out of our misery – Knight Rider has been canceled.
Undeservedly resurrected by NBC’s new, and [...]