Television

And rumors persist: They say Spielberg is co-financing the Broadway production of a play by Aaron Sorkin called “The Farnsworth Invention”, and he’s not doing it because he loves the stage. Instead, he may be doing it to get his foot in the door to produce and direct a movie version of the play. No, […]

A Hollywood-based blog asks the obvious question: The motive behind Steven Spielberg’s co-financing and co-producing the forthcoming Broadway presentation of Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, about a boy genius named Philo T. Farnsworth who invented television in high school in 1927 only to be ripped off by RCA’s David Sarnoff over the patent, seems obvious.

The Santa Monica Mirror takes note of The Archive of American Television — now available online and viewable via Google Video — which includes interviews with Pem Farnsworth: There is an interview with Elma Farnsworth, the widow of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the electronic television.  This is a woman who worked alongside Farnsworth as

This article from CFO.com tries to make the point that there is no progress without teamwork.  The point might be valid on some level, but the example they site here overlooks a fundamental point: Link: It’s about "Team" – – CFO.com. The life of any business manager would be so much more pleasant if one

Now that "Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip" has aired its final episodes, it’s instructive to see again how it all began: with Judd Hirsch’s Chayefsky-esq (see: "Network") rant about the impact of modern TeeVee on our politics and culture: Critics can take the series to task for whatever flaws they want to dwell on,

Link: John Dilworth: The Father of Television. A portrait of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who brought the monster into the world

It was rumored to be case last week, when somebody reported that the elaborate sets for "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip" were being dismantled.  Now it’s official: Link: NBC cans ‘Studio 60,’ ‘Jordan’ – CNN.com. NBC, the first of the broadcast networks to unveil a new schedule to advertisers this week, canceled "Crossing Jordan"

This was one of the funniest things I’ve seen on the TeeVee in a long time.  I don’t generally watch the Colbert Report in its entirety… I can really only take so much of Steve Colbert, funny and pointed as his commentary is.  But when I heard that Jane Fonda was going to be on

When last we visited the subject, Aaron Sorkin was on his way back to Los Angeles to resume work on his NBC program, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I had hoped maybe the network would put the show on its summer schedule, to see if it could round up a loyal audience while competing

…or why humans have imagination: