Television
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
Cumberland woman gets coveted platinum ticket in ‘American Idol’ audition
The judges, shocked by an emotional performance of 'Ain’t No Way' by Aretha Franklin, gave Julia Gagnon a coveted platinum ticket, handed out to only 3 competitors during auditions each season.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2024
They are TV’s ghosts – networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2024
FX reaches back over 400 years for its next ambitious series, adapting the hit novel ‘Shogun’
Almost 50 years after the novel 'Shogun' became a massive hit, the James Clavell fictional saga makes its way to FX.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2024
Marty Engstrom, Maine’s reluctant celebrity TV weatherman, dies at 86
Known as 'Marty on the Mountain,' he was trained as a broadcast engineer but gave weather reports from the top of Mount Washington for WMTW for 38 years.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86
The brothers constantly battled with CBS’s censors and occasionally outraged viewers as well with its daring sketches and irreverent jokes.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2023
Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary "The War on Disco," airing Monday on PBS.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2023
‘Frasier’ returns to TV, but you don’t need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokes
After two decades, Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” set to debut Thursday on Paramount+.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2023
Commentary: Televising Trump’s trials is a major mistake
My concern is less about whether televised proceedings are fair to the defendant and more about their effect on the viewer.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2023
Another View: Allow courtroom cameras for Trump trials
Televising the proceedings could have several benefits, including increasing confidence that the eventual verdicts are justified by a fair process.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2023
Boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore on ‘M-A-S-H’ sell at auction for $125,000 that will go to charity
The money raised from the auction will go to the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York.
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