Another Fake Kidnapping

I just happened to be watching TV, and another fake kidnapping was served up. I guess this has been going on even longer than I thought. This one happened in 2004, and involved Audrey Seiler, who said she was kidnapped from her apartment and kept in the woods for days, given cold medicine, restrained with …

Thoughts On New Millionaire

Wow, I missed Regis on this show. I know there are the reruns on the Game Show Network, but once you’ve already seen them there’s not much sense in watching again since you can’t play along. So far I like the changes they’ve made, and amazingly the celebrity experts haven’t been a complete embarrassment so …

Who Wants A Violent Beating

I’m happy to see the Regis Philbin version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire make a comeback. There’s nothing wrong with Meredith Vieira, but for my money you can’t beat the original. They’re changing it a bit from the way things used to be, which sounds good and bad. On the not so good …

Big Media Gets What It Wants While The Consumer Gets Hosed…Yet Again

CRTC increases TV funding to bolster local programs, small-market stations Aside from a couple of problems, this is great news. Unfortunately the problems are A that it won’t work and B that we the consumers are going to have to pay for it. The cable companies are alreadymaking that second one perfectly clearby using phrases …