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A Week With My Father – new show on father/son reunions (Video)

Paul Banas — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:24:46 +0000

Giacaomo Knox is launching a new web show and trying to sell the pilot for A Week with My Father, a new show that explores reunions between dads and sons. It's an interesting idea, and underscores the importance of the father/child bond.

The first episode features Knox reuniting with his father after 33 years apart. The next episode, already in the Development stage, will reunite a former NBA great who came back from a stroke, and his father.

Casting agency looking for stay at home dads for show.

Paul Banas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:45:31 +0000

I spoke with the talent agency involved and she told me that this is going to be a documentary about stay at home dads with a bit of a reality TV angle, but tastefully done. I promised I'd pass on the info: Are you a Stay at Home Dad or know one? Looking for STAY AT HOME DADS in Big Cites (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, New York City, Chicago) Working or Not Working.

Throw out the TV – that’s what happy people do

Paul Banas — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:01:29 +0000

While the study can't definitively say it's TV that makes people unhappy (versus "unhappy people watch a lot of TV), I think we all know all know it's likely the former. ... Whether it's too much steak, vodka, gambling, drugs, or just lying around the beach for years (AKA "sloth," another deadly sin), too much of a good thing is, well, too much of a good thing. ... But reading this article, which can only confirm your suspicions, might help give me the strength to take the remote control in my hand and press OFF... well, maybe after just one more episode of the Backyardigans.