NOTE FROM LB: Last week’s paean to Howdy Doody was so much fun that I can’t resist a few words about the first adult show I ever saw on TV. (Um, for the record, “adult” back in 1948 “adult” didn’t mean what it means now, so don’t be expecting too much, okay?)
Television wasn’t always the cultural giant it became.
Stephen Colbert strikes gold, thanks to a cast of brilliant 8-year-olds:
This TVWriter™ minion is thinking that it wouldn’t be a bad idea at all for these kids to be in charge.
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are:
The most popular web series genre by far, according to TVWriter™’s go-to experts at Stareable.Com, are comedy shows, which outnumber their closest competitor in terms of sheer volume by almost 3 to 1.
It’s All I Am, a comedy about “a group of teenagers who are in their last year of highschool” has one of the highest approval ratings on the web, so we’ve decided that’s time that all of you out there had a good look at the show.
So here it is, Episode 1 of It’s All I Am:
This video from Film Courage has caused a lot of discussion among the people who, you know, follow the excellent videos shown on YouTube by Film Courage. Watch and see what and why:
From TVWriter™’s perspective, this is Essential Knowledge, so basic that there’s no need for controversy.
But that’ll probably be a controversial view too.