My TV - old and new

The U of Texas Ransom Center Collection:

Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and important people of the day.

The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960, but the Ransom Center collection includes interviews from only 1957 and 1958. In the early 1960s, Mr. Wallace donated to the Ransom Center kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence.

Copyright of all of the interviews is held by Mike Wallace, who generously agreed to allow the Ransom Center to present them here in their entirety. Any further use of this material requires the permission of both Mike Wallace and the Ransom Center.

BBC Press Release: From Sherwood Forest to Thames House … Richard Armitage joins the cast of hit BBC One drama Spooks

The UK’s favourite team of spies are gaining a new member in the form of Richard Armitage, who joins Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris and Peter Firth on the Grid for series seven of Spooks on BBC One, which began filming in and around London earlier this month.

Yeah!!!!! From Hollywood Daily - Nikki Finke — Lights continues for a third season!

From Variety via my Sewell Blog

If you love Brit TV as I do —The Guardian: Broadcasting Press Guild Awards nominations

I’ve seen Some of The Street, Poliakoff’s Capturing Mary and Joe’s Palace, Cranford (wonderful!) and Five Days on HBO.

Friday Night Lights” may shine on for another season — and on more than one network.

NBC Universal execs have decided they want to go the extra yard to ensure the drama returns for a third season. To make sure that happens, conglom is having serious conversations with several networks about a plan to carve out multiple broadcast windows for the show, which has received critical worship and has a cult-like following.

Great news!! Let’s hope……

Showtime Renews ‘Brotherhood’ — Third season will be eight episodes long

Variety: Meanwhile, NBC’s “30 Rock,” HBO’s “The Wire”, HBO’s “The Sopranos,” NBC’s “The Office” and AMC’s “Mad Men” won the top TV series awards at the WGA Awards.

EW.com: “Oh, that wacky Hollywood Foreign Press Association; when it comes to TV nominations, they go gaga over the middlebrow-daring (The Tudors, Dexter, Californication) while bypassing the truly innovative.”

Variety: Several of my favorites have been recognized - Mad Men and John Hamm, Bill Paxton in Big Love, Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and Ted Danson in Damages, Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths in Brothers and Sisters, Jason Isaacs for The State Within —

Also Five Days from HBO, The Company from Sony, Damages, Big Love

No Friday Night Lights!!! - No Brotherhood!!!