The Post’s TV/Radio columnist since 1982, Phil Mushnick joined the newspaper in 1973. He’s covered the Nets, Rangers and New York Cosmos.
Say it ain’t so! Alex Trebek, 71, last week hinted that he’s leaning toward retirement, that he’ll soon ask his last question in the form of an answer. That would be a shame, given that “Jeopardy!,” on Trebek’s 28-year...
May 13, 2012 12:00 AM
I always liked Dick Clark as a TV host — of music and dance shows, of game shows, of New Year’s Eve shows from Times Square. But it was only after his 2004 stroke that slowed and impaired his speech when I came to...
April 29, 2012 12:00 AMWith Mike Wallace’s death 16 days ago, the predictable salutes to him and CBS’ “60 Minutes” as together synonymous with the best that TV journalism could, can, and may ever offer now seems a matter of historical fact....
April 22, 2012 12:00 AM
Keith Olbermann’s ex-bosses all eventually sound like ex-boat owners, those who say that the second best day of their lives is when they bought a boat, but their best day is when they sold it. Actually, though, if...
April 15, 2012 12:00 AM
To apply politics-based sorrow or glee to Keith Olbermann’s latest expulsion from his latest network — and he’d been hired to be the star of Current TV — is a waste of sentiment. Olbermann would be a first-class pain in...
April 08, 2012 12:00 AM
Apiece in last week’s Post written by business reporter Claire Atkinson pointed to diving overall ratings among Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central and MTV, the latter three networks all fighting for mostly the same crowd...
April 01, 2012 12:00 AMAs the application of common sense continues to be deemed a politically inappropriate position to demonstrate — at least in public — it stands to reason that the more we learn, the less we know — or at least are...
March 25, 2012 12:00 AM
The surprising, even shocking news came in two pieces. 1) Comcast, the Philadelphia-based new ownership of NBC, is not renewing the contract of 30-year WNBC-Ch. 4 news anchor and beloved face of New York, Sue Simmons....
March 18, 2012 12:00 AM
Perhaps we aren’t supposed to remember. Or, perhaps, we’re no longer supposed to care. The actor Matthew Broderick is now starring in a series of Honda auto TV commercials. And that could inspire some of us to ask...
March 11, 2012 12:00 AM
When I was a kid, I wasn’t much for school. I was one of those clock-watchers — seated at 9 a.m., watching and waiting for the clock to hit 3 p.m. Let me outta here!Looking back, the bulk of my intellectual,...
March 04, 2012 12:00 AM
The desperate, depraved state of local TV news last week hit a fresh low. WABC-Ch. 7’s lead anchor, Bill Ritter, likely on tacit orders, several times told an outrageous lie, the kind designed for viewers to act on —...
February 26, 2012 12:00 AM
In sixth grade the most obnoxious kids would holler, “Made ya look! Made ya look!” Today, all day, every day, one can turn to the local TV news to hear and see that game being played by adults, by professional,...
February 19, 2012 12:00 AM
Pick a card, any card. Doesn’t much matter which one: They’re all wild; they’re all crazy.1 Last week, a group called One Million Moms, proponents of family values and common decency — I was raised to have both — called...
February 12, 2012 12:00 AM
What do you do for exhaustion? I do one of two things. I either go to sleep, or, if I don’t make it that far, I simply fall asleep. And I’ve always found that a good night’s sleep cures exhaustion, well, overnight. Yet...
February 05, 2012 12:00 AM
This just in . . . A large sinkhole formed today on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Police are looking into it. The shameless and desperate state of TV news now demands that its shot callers ask themselves the rhetorical...
January 29, 2012 12:00 AM
Late last month, a 20-year-old New Jersey man and his 17-year-old male companion were arrested for beating a homeless man bloody and senseless. They punched him, stomped him and wished him a “Merry Christmas.” We know...
January 22, 2012 12:00 AM
If the quality of presidents and presidential candidates is down, so too is the quality of TV network reporters who dog the candidates. There’s a TMZ-ization to the coverage of this campaign that has allowed significant...
January 15, 2012 12:00 AM
My fictional cousin Tibor, from the tiny nation of West Plaxico, recently flew to New York from LA, his first visit to the United States.When we picked him up at the airport, he had a disturbing story to tell: The man...
December 25, 2011 12:00 AM
Two ACLU lawyers walk into an airport bar . . . Somewhere along the way, the application of common sense has become something that Americans should avoid, be ashamed of and certainly not admit to in public. For example,...
December 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Apparently the only reason the GOP is allowing Donald Trump to host/moderate/conduct its next televised presidential debate is because Krusty the Klown is a cartoon character, Bozo the Clown is in assisted living and...
December 11, 2011 12:00 AM
Who’s the “Biggest Loser”? We all are. It’s not just the big-time athletic departments, those directing the deeds and indulging the misdeeds of coaches and, cough, gag, cough, “student-athletes.” Throughout academia,...
December 04, 2011 12:00 AM
This newscast is rated F, for fools. No viewer discretion, whatsoever, is needed. The not-so-funny funny thing about watching national newscasts is that if some organization of ritual-murderers chose to call itself the...
November 27, 2011 12:00 AM
Think what it now takes to become a front-runner in the race to be elected President of the United States.All you need is one, good wisecrack — something worthy of You Tube and a video/sound bite on the next day’s TV...
November 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Of all the salutes to Andy Rooney, over the past week, I didn’t hear or read one that credited Rooney with his influence on a certain art form: Comedy. Rooney, although not widely identified as a performer or comedian,...
November 13, 2011 12:00 AM
There it was, leaning against the side of someone’s house. Hadn’t seen one in years. It was a functioning relic, a wooden, two-story extension ladder. Once upon a TV time, homeowners kept them on their sides in their...
November 06, 2011 12:00 AM
Nightly and daily newscasts have become satire-proof. The “you can’t make this stuff up” stuff never ends. Rain drops on roses, these are a few of my favorite (recent) things: Last week WBTV, a CBS affiliate in...
October 30, 2011 12:00 AMNot that there were any corrections, retractions or apologies, but six months ago, the national news media, in what seemed to be a don’t-want-to-be-the-last exercise, began to report the most hopeful, fantastic and...
October 23, 2011 12:00 AM
I feel like Quasimodo, chased back up into the bell tower, no place else to turn, nothing left to write or holler except, “Sanctuary!” In New York City -- New York City, for heaven’s sake -- the hardest thing to find...
October 16, 2011 12:00 AM
These days, there’s one preferred way to get your commercial message across on TV: lie.Gosh, we’ve enjoyed those ads for FreeScoreCredit.com and FreeCreditReport.com, starring a hapless musical band of young men forced...
October 09, 2011 12:00 AM
While watching last Sunday afternoon’s Jets-Oakland game on CBS, it struck me that if you only watched Sunday afternoon pro football on CBS the last, oh, 15 years -- and if you watched CBS at no other times -- you’d by...
October 02, 2011 12:00 AM
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