Monthly Archives: August 2010

Jimmy Fallon, the late night star who is hosting his first Emmy Awards show Sunday, says the only problem he’s had so far is coming up with too much material. Chatting with reporters at the TV Critics Press Tour a few weeks back, he said he and his team had already come up with scripts [...]

Ric O’Barry first became attached to dolphins when he was trainer on “Flipper.” Now, years later, he’s infrontof the cameras for a new series that, like “Whale Wars” before it, flirts with Japanese law enforcement to raise the veil on the bloody slaughter he’s depicted already in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove.” In the new [...]

For his last adventure series, “Survivorman,” Les Stroud was literally parachuted into the wild and forced to find a way to survive it. He did, so now he has another series, “Beyond Survival with Les Stroud,” in which he visits some of the most remote tribes on earth and tries to walk in their shoes. [...]

Spike Lee was nearly finished with his already long sequel to his New Orleans tome, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” showing this week on HBO, called “If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise.” Then the BP oil spill happened and they loaded up the cameras again. “We were done [...]

Canada’s premier comedy troupe returns to American TV Friday with their series “The Kids in the Hall: The Devil Comes to Town” on IFC. Like Sonic Youth, they’ve pretty much outgrown their name. But they continue to base a lot of their humor on well-drawn characters, about half of them women. That’s meant cross-dressing has [...]