David Zurawik – Page 15

'House of Cards' filming in Mount Vernon

‘House of Cards’ moves into Mount Vernon’s Peabody Institute this week

June 1, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

UPDATES WITH STREET CLOSINGS: "House of Cards" is at Mount Vernon's Peabody Institute this week where the producers are expected to film one of the biggest scenes in the first...

Peabody Institute gets a Georgetown makeover for ‘House of Cards’ next week

June 1, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

"House of Cards" is coming to another major Baltimore institution, Mount Vernon's Peabody Institute, where the producers are expected to film one of the biggest scenes in the first 13...

Andy Griffith and the myth of a fair-minded, small-town Southern America in the turbulent ’60s

June 1, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Andy Griffith, one of the stars who put CBS on top of the TV world in the 1960s with an easy-going but culturally-packed sitcom that ran for eight seasons during...

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ speaks truth to a press that lost its way

June 1, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

As I have said earlier, I believe the pilot for Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" is one of the decade's best productions. I love this series for the way it calls...

Preakness coverage by NBC shows power of preparation

August 19, 2019 at 4:44 a.m.

NBC Sports says it had 170 employees in Baltimore this week to cover the Preakness, and from the looks of the TV package it presented, all of them earned their...

Turn to Team NBC for most complete Preakness TV coverage

August 19, 2019 at 4:43 a.m.

Last year, 8.8 million viewers saw NBC's coverage of the Preakness. That's the kind of big-tent mass audience that makes the race one of Baltimore's showcase events. And that doesn't...

Jeannine Edwards on covering the Preakness for ESPN

August 19, 2019 at 4:43 a.m.

ESPN's Jeannine Edwards started her TV career as an in-track host at Pimlico and Laurel in the early 1990s. "It allowed me to learn television, because I came from a...

Baltimore Ravens Joe Flacco, Ray Rice get HBO shoutout on ‘VEEP’

August 19, 2019 at 4:43 a.m.

For the second week in a row, Baltimore got some prime-time, Sunday-night love on high-end cable TV. Two weeks ago, Lutherville got a mention on "Mad Men." Granted, it was...

WJZ-TV cuts away from incredible Orioles game – Can you say ‘Heidi Bowl’?

August 19, 2019 at 4:42 a.m.

The decision wasn't in a league with the infamous one NBC made in 1968 to cut away from the ending of an incredible AFC football game to show a rerun...

What critics are saying about Baltimore-made ‘VEEP’

June 1, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

From a Sunday magazine cover piece to Page One stories and blogs posts, I feel like I have been writing about the new HBO satire "VEEP" for at least a...

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