As we enter the dog days of summer, here are this week’s Friday Questions. VHS Village (Formerly The Beta Barn) starts us off. What is the u...

One of the most successful playwrights and screenwriters in history and no one on Jeopardy even knew who he was. Time to spotlight the work ...

Quite simply, no one besides my father has had as much impact on my life as Vin Scully.  My love of baseball, announcing storytelling, even ...

With a play currently running at the Cape May Stage ( go see it ), I was asked to write my bio for the Playbill.  This is standard practice....

Fans of MASH will recognize the name Burt Metcalfe.  Starting as Associate Producer when the series began he graduated to showrunner by seas...

Last FQ’s of the month.  Come and get ‘em. Spike de Beauvoir gets the ball rolling: What are three of your favorite classic Looney Tunes car...

The family sitcom has been a staple of television from I LOVE LUCY to MODERN FAMILY. Ken traces the evolution of this venerable genre and sp...

A new monthly tradition -- re-posting Friday Question from 10 years ago.  I've answered close to 4,000 FQ's but most are buried deep...

Sitting in my AirBnB in Cape May last week, just chilling, channel surfing, I came upon THE WEAKEST LINK on NBC.  I had not watched that pro...

I watched the movie of THE ODD COUPLE recently starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. A lot of it still holds up, but when I first saw...

Those lazy hazy days of summer continue… along with Friday Questions. Chris Bernard is first up. Hi Ken, when you write can you sit down and...

What if I told you there was a woman who in the early days of television wrote 11,000 scripts, and starred in her own TV network hit sitcom ...

Thank you MLB and Fox for utterly destroying the Major League Baseball All-Star game.   At one time the Mid Summer Classic was far and away ...

Here’s a follow-up to this weekend’s post.  It’s a story Jason Robert Brown tells.  Now a very accomplished Broadway composer himself, when ...

Come see my play at the Cape May Stage.  Cape May is beautiful this time of year.  I'll be there this weekend.  Come for the laughs, sta...

  Now with YouTube, everybody makes videos. HD cameras are so inexpensive that full-length films can be produced on a shoestring budget....

Thanks to everyone at the Cape May Stage for a great opening night of my play, AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE.  Now through mid-August.   I’ll be ...

Pilot development is always nuts. From concept to completion so much can go wrong. It’s a wonder when one good one escapes and gets on the a...

Tonight is the preview performance of my romantic comedy play, AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE at the Cape May Stage on the Joisy Shore .  Opening ...

Here's a FQ that became an entire post.  It's from... George Tramountanas. I notice when you talk about your favorite sitcoms, you d...