A new reality series about ice fishing in New England is set to premiere Friday, May 30 on the National Geographic Channel, and two episodes are set right here in Maine. “Ice Holes,” a new show that will follow the exploits of a group of New Hampshire and Maine-based ice fishermen, shot two episodes in […]
Bangor-based late night talk show “The Nite Show with Danny Cashman” has been nominated for two New England EMMY Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences released the list of nominees Wednesday night, which includes entries from all over New England. “The Nite Show” was nominated in the category of Musical Composition/Arrangement for the parody song […]
A few years ago Renee Perron discovered that the property she’s lived on for the past ten years once belonged to a fascinating figure in Bangor’s history — Sam Guess, a Civil War veteran and former slave considered “for many years one of the best known characters of the city,” the Daily Whig and Courier reported […]
Dan Cashman of “The Nite Show” on WABI-TV saw how much room he and his crew had to play with when they did a three-show stand at the Bangor Opera House last November. Going into his fourth year as host of the Bangor-based late night talk show, he knew it was time to think about […]
The Axe Women Loggers of Maine, a new team of female professional timber sports athletes, will appear on “The Queen Latifah Show” at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, broadcast on WABI, Bangor’s CBS affiliate. The Axe Women Loggers of Maine were formed by Bar Harbor resident Alissa Harper, who has more than a decade […]
Aren’t you at least a little bit curious about the identity of the people who comment on the Bangor Daily News website? Who are these people? Are they people you know? What’s the deal? Well, even if you’re not all that curious, former city councilor Charlie Longo is. In a video produced by Sutherland and […]
Maine Public Broadcasting Network announced on Wednesday morning that Robin Rilette, a longtime classical music broadcaster at Northwest Public Radio in Pullman, Washington, would fill the seat vacated in August by Suzanne Nance as MPBN’s new music director and host of the Morning Classical Music program. Nance left MPBN over the summer and now broadcasts […]
Jimmy Kimmel is known for featuring viewer-submitted videos and pictures on his ABC late-night talk show regularly. After the record low temperatures nationwide, he naturally had a few bits talking about how cold it was. One of Kimmel’s writing assistants, a woman named Becky, has a mother who lives in the town of Oxford. She […]
The Victoria Mansion, the ornate, historic mansion and museum on Danforth Street in downtown Portland, is one of the finest examples of Italianate architecture in the country. The long-running PBS series “This Old House” is restoring an Italianate house in Massachusetts this season, and to give viewers an example of the architectural style, last summer […]
“Timber” Tina Scheer, owner of the Great Maine Lumberjack Show in Ellsworth, is no stranger to TV. She’s appeared on everything from the Travel Channel show “Edge of America” to “The Jeff Probst Show,” and in 2006 was a contestant on “Survivor: Panama.” A celebrated timber sports athlete, she’s also no stranger to hard work […]
