What’s Come Before in this look at the making of Superman 2025: October 2022, November 2022, December 2022, January 2023 Superman: Legacy Is Officially Unveiled February 2023 was the month that speculation gave way to confirmation. What had been swirling for months in the form of rumor, leaks and cautious statements was now made official: James Gunn’s Superman project had […]
Given my lifelong love for movies and television (especially the former when I was a kid), there’s something oddly perfect about the fact that my first job—at the ripe old age of 14—was as a matinee usher at the Twin-Shirley Theatre, located on Long Island, New York. My cousin Alfred was the assistant manager at […]
Having been all of 13 when the animated Star Trek made its animated debut on NBC’s Saturday morning lineup in 1973, I was impressed with the fact that the actors were reprising their roles and many of the scripts, which truly did feel as though they could have come from the original series. But even […]
To be perfectly honest, I figured that with the lack of movement from EON Productions following the 2021 release of No Time to Die, and their seeming inability to get past the departure of Daniel Craig as 007, James Bond, despite the final credit of that film, would not return. And I made peace with […]
Dark Shadows has been a part of my life since I was eight years old. I still watch the show and continue to express my love for it in my writing. But I recently had a chance to talk all things Dark Shadows in my life with Penny Dreadful at the Terror at Collinwood podcast. […]
In a television landscape once dominated by self-contained crime procedurals, Wiseguy broke the mold. Airing on CBS from 1987 to 1990, the show helped usher in a new era of serialized storytelling—years before it became the norm. Now, more than three decades after its finale, Wiseguy is reportedly making a surprise return (according to Yahoo), […]
Posting on April 18, 2023 was my appearance on Michael Bailey’s wonderful It All comes Back to Superman podcast, where I discussed the oral history book Voices from Krypton. Here’s how Michael described the episode: “This time out I celebrate Superman’s 85th birthday by talking with writer Ed Gross. Ed has a book titled Voices […]
An official inside look at the 85+ year history of Superman in all media.
Back in 1990, following its second season, I wrote a book titled Secret: File: The Unofficial Making of a Wiseguy, published by a nightmare company called Pioneer Books (which I’ll have to discuss in a future post). The book was an episode-by-episode behind-the-scenes look at the making of the first two seasons of Wiseguy, the […]
Hundreds of interviews take you inside the making of every Planet of the Apes film and TV series
Losing cast members from Dark Shadows is, unfortunately, something that oldtime fans of the show have gotten used to, yet it’s always a sad moment and that’s particularly true with the loss of Lara Parker, who made such an impact in her role as Angelique Bouchard. I had the opportunity to interview Lara a number […]
The Beatles AI version of the song “Bananaphone” became something of a sensation online, but then was yanked down (understandably). Originally created in 1994 by Raffi, who specializes in children’s songs, someone had the bright idea to kick the originator out (sorry, Raffi; nothing personal) and replace him with the Fab Four. This was the […]
Back in my early college days, I had it in my head that I would write a “making of” book to one of my favorite television shows ever, Dark Shadows, the Gothic horror daytime soap that starred Jonathan Frid as vampire Barnabas Collins. But a friend of mine at the time, Mike Pyne, looked at […]
Let’s get one thing out of the way at the outset: even though this section of the blog is called “Fab Song of the Day,” the odds are pretty strong that it won’t be updated daily (I know myself too well). But you’ve got my promise that I’ll try. Now one thing I can say […]