Jonathan Storm has watched television since he was 5 years old. He would wake up early, turn on the TV and watch the test patterns as he waited for The Modern Farmer to begin. Five years later, he began his news career as editor-in-chief of the mimeographed newspaper in Mr. Merrill's fifth-grade class.
He spent six years as a true journalist at the Rutland Herald (Vt.) and six more at the Detroit Free Press. He joined The Inquirer in 1982, working as an editor in various departments. In 1987, he edited the newspaper's special sections on the Constitution and a companion four-month series. The package won a national award from the Benjamin Franklin Foundation as best special Constitution coverage by a newspaper.
Seeing an opportunity to watch television for a living, he grabbed it and became The Inquirer's television critic in 1990. His reviews appear in the Daily Magazine.
Out of 6 new shows slated for the network's coming season, 4 are from familiar names.
Going to the well to sign fan-favorite producers, Fox yesterday announced that four of its six new series for the 2008-09 TV season will come from the beloved creators of Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development and Family Guy.
Going where the other networks fear to tread, CBS yesterday announced a new sitcom bloc for fall, when The New Adventures of Old Christine will lead Wednesdays at 8 p.m., followed by the new adventures of two skilled TV vets. Jay Mohr and Paula Marshall will star in Project Gary, about the funny side of divorce.
- The network announced it would introduce only two new shows. It plans to relaunch several.In what may be an all-time record, ABC announced yesterday that it would introduce only two new shows onto its fall lineup.
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In spring, an advertiser's fancy used to turn to gala, big-star entertainment and lots of cocktails and huge shrimp. But times are tough. Yesterday, the boys and girls from Madison Avenue meandered through an overgrown science fair, instead.
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Delving deep into the dichotomy of personality that plagues so many successful artists, tonight's American Masters profiles Marvin Gaye, "one of the most musically creative minds ever."
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Hi-ho, the derry-o, the farmer takes a wife. What the heck is the derry-o, anyway? Such random thoughts scurry across your mind as it empties while you watch the latest lamebrained, pick-your-true-love, phony reality show on CW57, starting tonight at 9.
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Fiery Chris Matthews has been back in his hometown covering the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary for MSNBC, which televises his show Hardball weekdays at 5 and 7 p.m. This weekend, he attended his 45th class reunion at La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, and he and Keith Olbermann will be the anchors for MSNBC's primary coverage tonight.
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It's been a while since Big TV has gotten involved with the very sticky business of kindhearted drama about the disabled. Surprisingly, the usually dependable Hallmark Hall of Fame gets stuck in the flypaper tomorrow at 9 p.m. on CBS3, with Sweet Nothing in My Ear.
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Jonathan Storm: Colbert, Nutter, Matthews - and Ben
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It's always a party at The Colbert Report, but things are a little different when the show comes to Philadelphia, and a lengthy lineup comes before comedy. Nobody seems to mind.
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No need to suffer anymore with lame late-night laughers about Hillary Clinton's pantsuits or John McCain, the Ancient Mariner. A page is turning in presidential campaign history. For the first time, some of the best and most widely acknowledged political comedy is coming not from millionaire pros, but from the proletariat. And the homemade comedy is helping to energize a large group of new voters.
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All the longhairs watching and listening to Boston public broadcasting, WGBH, 40 years ago tonight got quite a surprise: "We invite you to stay tuned now for a live memorial concert from the Boston Garden," intoned the announcer with those mellifluous modulations that were de rigueur on stations like WGBH, "featuring Negro singer Jimmy Brown and his group."
- Programs on the Amazon and, especially, elder care are the true reality.People complain that PBS is irrelevant, now that a different cable channel covers its every niche. But a nondescript night, midweek in April, demonstrates the network's value.
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