September 2, 2008

R.I.P. Don LaFontaine

In a world without the king of voiceovers… it’s not going to be the same. Don LaFontaine, whose work covered everything from thousands of movie trailers to Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40 countdown show died Monday after being hospitalized for a week due to a blood clot in one of his lungs. He was 68. LaFontaine recently appeared on a […]

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March 2, 2007

You’re kidding. Right?

There is a sitcom in development at ABC that is based on – get this – The Geico Caveman.The copywriter behind those ads would also create and write the sitcom. Alright, which TV executive stepped into a time machine and went back to 1967 to get this inane idea? Next thing you know, The CW will develop a sitcom around […]

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