Media Funhouse

From high art to low trash and back again!

Your guide to the best and the worst of modern media (and nothing in between).

You have arrived at the online home for NYC cable viewers’ premier guide to “high” and “low” culture. The show airs at 1:00 a.m. on late Saturday nights in Manhattan on Ch. 1997 (Spectrum), Ch. 84 (RCN), and Ch. 35 (FiOS). NEW RE-AIR SLOT: Monday nights at 11:00 p.m. EST in Manhattan on Ch. 56 (Spectrum), Ch. 83 (RCN), and Ch. 34 (FiOS). Viewers outside Manhattan can watch the program via streaming video during the show’s airtime on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network website: http://www.mnn.org/


For weekly journeys “from high art to low trash… and back again,” check out the Media Funhouse blog at mediafunhouse.blogspot.com.


Please feel free to contact us via e-mail at: ed at mediafunhouse dot com

About the Author

Le roi du gag meets Uncle Jean.

Ed Grant has been writing about movies and the media since the late 1980s. He edited, and was involved in every phase of production, of three volumes of the comprehensive, 800-page-plus, library reference volume The Motion Picture Guide (Cinebooks). He previously served as a staff writer for TV Guide and as managing editor of Movies on TV (Bantam). He has written reviews and features for a range of periodicals and websites, including Films in ReviewPsychotronic VideoVideoscope, the books The Video Movie Guide (Ballantine) and Groovy Movies (Visible Ink), and familywonder.com, tvguide.com, and time.com.
 
Site Notes: Big thanks go out to Akira Fitton (Funhouse logo!), Paul Gallagher (technical assistance), and Arnold Neimanis (scans and original Funhouse site).
And those without whom the show would not have kept going — the camera people. They were (contact me if you did camerawork and are not on this list): Chuck, Patrick, Kim, Jim, Bob F., Akira, Michael F., Arnold (who also edited), Eric, Tim (who also edited), Sara, Carle, Bob S., Michael S., Chuck H-J, Rich, Charles.