Programming Notes

My buddy Dana Gabbard informs me that he saw in a bulletin for the Motion Picture Academy that their recent screening of All That Jazz used a print prepared for a forthcoming DVD release.  No date is yet known.

If you get The Biography Channel on your cable system (or have a satellite dish) check out their programming for later this month.  They're running lots of episodes of Biography about show biz personalities.  I just marked about nine for my TiVo to record.  Listings for the channel can be found here.

I would especially recommend the two-hour Biography Close-Up that reruns on A&E (as opposed to The Biography Channel) October 8 and 9 in the wee small hours of the morning, and later this month in a more humane time slot.  It's all about the making of Sesame Street and if you have the slightest interest in children's TV programming — or Jim Henson and the Muppets — it's a must-see, must-keep.