30 Rock: FINAL EPISODES AIR TONIGHT!
Great send off article in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/bracing-for-30-rocks-sharp-witted-farewell/2013/01/30/a5d7aa1a-6b1e-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html
Laugh Tracks: RARE Black Box Found! A couple of years ago, this piece of television history popped up on ‘Antiques Roadshow’. Here is the video of the Charlie Douglas ‘Laff Box’ which was discovered among the items sold in a storage locker sale. Thankfully the new owner was curious, other wise, it would have gone […]
November 17, 1946…TV’s 1st Magazine Style Show Debuts “Television Screen Magazine” was the show, and it may have been the second ever NBC network series, but it was certainly among the first. NBC’s “Hour Glass” variety show came first with a debut on May 9, 1946. At the time, NBC’s television network included only three […]
CBS Studio 72…Their Only New York RCA Color Facility In the early 50’s, the network had a Field Sequential Color setup in The Peace Theater at 1280 Fifth Avenue. This was called CBS Color Studio 57. After RCA won the color war, that studio went back to a black and white facility. In early 1954, […]
A Very Interesting History: The Chaplin Studios In 1919, construction was completed on the land bought in 1917 by silent screen icon Charlie Chaplin, including his personal residence on the site. Many of Chaplin’s classic films were shot at the studios, including The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), […]