I Am Not Built for TV. Tashara Parker Is.
There’s a reason I am a magazine editor and not a TV news anchor. Exhibit A: I am currently sitting at my desk with two-day-old hair rolled into a claw clip at the base of my neck. My jeans are freshly...
View ArticleEarBurner Podcast: FOX 4’s Tim Ryan Looks Forward to Retirement
After August 26, you won’t be seeing Tim Ryan when you turn on Fox 4 in the mornings. He’s been in that spot for 27 years, at one point broadcasting from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m., which required that he wake...
View ArticleThe Chase Tower Rotunda: A Dallas Landmark Unlike Any Other
I’m always curious to see the B-roll footage used during Cowboys home games. You don’t get many shots of Arlington. I wonder why. Sometimes you’ll get some Cowtown. Mostly, though, it’s downtown...
View ArticleReturn of the Pod People: Netflix’s Love Is Blind Ready to Unleash Its Dallas...
I am the only female in my house, so I do not get control of the remote often. My knowledge of the embarrassment of riches we have in quality dating and courtship programming is limited to whatever...
View ArticleLove Is Blind’s Dallas Season Is Complete, But There Is Still Plenty to Talk...
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the times when we argued about Cuties and made fake tears on national TV. I really, really cannot believe that I watched an entire season of...
View ArticleLove Is Blind is Back in Dallas for Three More Episodes
Just in case you thought Dallas was done being the backdrop for a clutch of singles looking for love on a TV show, Netflix is about to drop three follow-up episodes to season three of Love Is Blind....
View ArticleFour North Texas Women Are Trying to Win Hearts in Fox’s “Farmer Wants a Wife”
Heather Carwile didn’t think she’d try to find love on a TV show. But she had been in a relationship for nine years, and it had ended badly. She had just turned 40 and was trying to find her footing...
View ArticleHGTV Star Jenn Todryk Dishes on the New Season of Her Show, No Demo Reno
In 2018, social media star Jenn Todryk got an out-of-the-blue email asking if she wanted to host an HGTV show. She thought it was a scam. “I was like, ‘this isn’t how people get on TV. This is silly,’”...
View ArticleA New Series About Lawman Bass Reeves Tries to Separate Truth from Legend
Growing up in Fort Worth, Chad Feehan thought he had been told the basics about Bass Reeves, the 19th century lawman and first Black deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. The more Feehan...
View ArticleWhat Is Going on With Bally Sports Southwest? A Sports Business Reporter...
In my capacity as a professional sports degenerate for D Magazine, I am asked all manner of questions pertaining to the games we all watch. Among the most frequent question concerns how we watch those...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean Now that Amazon Has Entered the Fray for Bally Sports...
A month after I summoned a very smart sports business reporter to help us all get a better understanding of whatever the hell is going on with Bally Sports Southwest, we have some long-awaited clarity....
View ArticleJohn ‘Lucky’ Luckadoo Is a Master of the Air
John “Lucky” Luckadoo may be the most popular man in Dallas. In January, he met Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg at the Hollywood premiere for Masters of the Air, an Apple TV+ miniseries depicting World...
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