by David Krell | Nov 17, 2016 | David Krell
Baseball is a never-ending source for popular culture storytellers whose tales tap a range of emotional veins in fans of the National Pastime. We cry when Gary Cooper reenacts Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech in The Pride of the Yankees. We cheer...
by David Krell | Jun 3, 2015 | David Krell
Many a cop has said that Barney Miller is the most realist cop show of all time. Not Hill Street Blues. Not Naked City. Not Delvecchio. Not Dragnet. Not NYPD Blue. Not even any of the shows in the Law & Order family. On an episode of Jon Favreau’s...
by David Krell | May 10, 2015 | David Krell
Under William Paley, CBS became the gold standard of television programming in news and entertainment. Nicknamed the Tiffany Network, CBS fell under Paley’s patriarchy from the 1920s to 1990, when Paley died. It was Paley who gave Edward R. Murrow an outlet to...
by David Krell | Feb 27, 2015 | David Krell
In the 1980s, America’s three television networks changed hands. ABC to Capital Cities. NBC to General Electric. CBS to Loews. Ken Auletta documented the decade in his 1991 book Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. It is, indeed, a fantastic...
by David Krell | May 2, 2013 | David Krell
All in the Family dominated prime time programming in the first half of the 1970s. It was a jewel for the Tiffany Network, a nickname for CBS because of the network’s high quality news and entertainment programming. Created by Norman Lear, All in the Family...
