Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN+ halts marketing, yet production continues on content

[Kevin M.]

Remember this picture trending of a bunch of white guys in charge of CNN+?
People, myself included, pointed out that in Atlanta, to not have ANY other
ethnic representation showed a profound disconnect from the potential
online audience. I can’t prove that’s why it failed, but…

https://twitter.com/morsea/status/1508645771066982403?s=21=-7ealiXbkRNUZFSbMb2T6A


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:40 AM Tom Wolper  wrote:

> I wish I had $300 million I could throw away like that. I was surprised to
> see that Chris Wallace’s show wasn’t about interviewing newsmakers but
> interviewing people like William Shatner and Joan Collins. Were they
> targeting nursing homes?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:33 PM Kevin M. 
> wrote:
>
>> All anybody wanted was access to a live stream for breaking news. CNN
>> execs couldn’t figure that out.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:27 AM Joe Hass  wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Quibi: you've got company!
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.wsj.com/articles/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-streaming-service-11650556680?st=6x8pi3k7qmjr1rr=desktopwebshare_permalink
>>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:28 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>>> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>
 At least till new bosses JB Perrette and Chris Licht get a chance to
 look over things.


 https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-future-warner-bros-discovery-1235235816/
  (link)

 Licht begins at the company May 2nd, at which time he'll quit Twitter.

 https://twitter.com/ChrisLicht/status/1516071114073645060 (link)

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert has the Covid

['David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV]

 So at this point all the major network late night hosts have tested positive 
for COVID?
David

On Thursday, April 21, 2022, 02:47:03 PM PDT, Kevin M. 
 wrote:  
 
 Per his Twitter. 
https://twitter.com/stephenathome/status/1517214298245939201?s=21=b5RfvaH6n-Tx3inA_GJlSw
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[TV orNotTV] Colbert has the Covid

[Kevin M.]

Per his Twitter.

https://twitter.com/stephenathome/status/1517214298245939201?s=21=b5RfvaH6n-Tx3inA_GJlSw

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[TV orNotTV] Re: Florida Gov proposes ending "special" districts

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

The quickly-drafted proposal passed both chambers of the state legislature 
and awaits DeSantis' sig, even though one of the two county tax collectors 
involved told V it would cost his county $163mil/year to take over the 
applicable services and obligations...

https://variety.com/2022/politics/news/florida-cancels-disney-district-1235238105/
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Moi, April 19th:

> Including the one encompassing D!sney... danged if he cares about the 
> court challenge...
>
>
> https://variety.com/2022/film/news/ron-desantis-disney-reedy-creek-district-1235235575/
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Rudy Giuliani was a singer on the "Masked Singer"

[Brad Beam]

I was going to mention Congressional candidate Sarah Palin, but Wiki sez she 
was on Season 3, which aired in early ‘20.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2022, at 12:37, Kevin M.  wrote:
> 
> 
> George Wallace’s Twitter had the best take: 
> 
> “Folks are ripping Masked Singer for having Rudy on, but that shit was a 
> brilliant plan to finally get a Republican to wear a mask.”

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Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN+ halts marketing, yet production continues on content

[Tom Wolper]

I wish I had $300 million I could throw away like that. I was surprised to
see that Chris Wallace’s show wasn’t about interviewing newsmakers but
interviewing people like William Shatner and Joan Collins. Were they
targeting nursing homes?


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:33 PM Kevin M.  wrote:

> All anybody wanted was access to a live stream for breaking news. CNN
> execs couldn’t figure that out.
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:27 AM Joe Hass  wrote:
>
>> Hey Quibi: you've got company!
>>
>>
>> https://www.wsj.com/articles/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-streaming-service-11650556680?st=6x8pi3k7qmjr1rr=desktopwebshare_permalink
>>
>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:28 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
>> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At least till new bosses JB Perrette and Chris Licht get a chance to
>>> look over things.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-future-warner-bros-discovery-1235235816/
>>>  (link)
>>>
>>> Licht begins at the company May 2nd, at which time he'll quit Twitter.
>>>
>>> https://twitter.com/ChrisLicht/status/1516071114073645060 (link)
>>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Rudy Giuliani was a singer on the "Masked Singer"

[Kevin M.]

George Wallace’s Twitter had the best take:

“Folks are ripping Masked Singer for having Rudy on, but that shit was a
brilliant plan to finally get a Republican to wear a mask.”


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Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN+ halts marketing, yet production continues on content

[Kevin M.]

All anybody wanted was access to a live stream for breaking news. CNN execs
couldn’t figure that out.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:27 AM Joe Hass  wrote:

> Hey Quibi: you've got company!
>
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-streaming-service-11650556680?st=6x8pi3k7qmjr1rr=desktopwebshare_permalink
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:28 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> At least till new bosses JB Perrette and Chris Licht get a chance to look
>> over things.
>>
>>
>> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-future-warner-bros-discovery-1235235816/
>>  (link)
>>
>> Licht begins at the company May 2nd, at which time he'll quit Twitter.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/ChrisLicht/status/1516071114073645060 (link)
>>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN+ halts marketing, yet production continues on content

[Joe Hass]

Hey Quibi: you've got company!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-streaming-service-11650556680?st=6x8pi3k7qmjr1rr=desktopwebshare_permalink

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:28 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> At least till new bosses JB Perrette and Chris Licht get a chance to look
> over things.
>
>
> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-future-warner-bros-discovery-1235235816/
>  (link)
>
> Licht begins at the company May 2nd, at which time he'll quit Twitter.
>
> https://twitter.com/ChrisLicht/status/1516071114073645060 (link)
>
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[TV orNotTV] Re: Rudy Giuliani was a singer on the "Masked Singer"

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

Sorry about that, Steve Timko... B

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[TV orNotTV] Re: Rudy Giuliani was a singer on the "Masked Singer"

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

The show aired last night, and it's just like what's been written earlier. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/masked-singer-rudy-giuliani-ken-jeong-walks-off-1235133157/
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Moi, Feb 2nd:

>
> Two judges walk out.
>
>
> https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/02/rudy-giuliani-reveal-masked-singer-ken-jeong-robin-thicke-protest-walk-out/
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[TV orNotTV] Re: Alec Baldwin fired the gun that killed a person on New Mexico movie set

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

New Mexico fines "Rust" nearly $137k for safety violations. Court review 
likely. Hannah Gutierrez Reed's attorney said that had anyone from the 
production called her back inside the church on set, nobody would have 
gotten shot or killed. (Duh.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/04/20/rust-movie-maximum-fine-gun-safety-failures-alec-baldwin-shooting/7385746001/
 

 (link)

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Moi, Feb 23rd:

> Halyna's husband, utterly p*ssed with Baldwin, taped an interview with NBC 
> News, which will air tomorrow (24) on "Today."
>
>
> https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-02-23/husband-of-cinematographer-killed-on-rust-movie-blames-baldwin-in-interview
>  (link)  
>B
>
> Moi, to Steve Timko, Feb 15th:
>
>> Here's the wrongful death suit from the victim's kin...
>>
>>
>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/halyna-hutchins-family-sues-rust-producers-1235093866/
>>  (link)
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[TV orNotTV] Robert Morse, RIP

[Paul Murray]

90. Two Tonys and an Emmy (though not for the role you're probably thinking 
of).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-morse-dead-mad-men-tony-winner-1235133283/

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rip "Winning Time"

['Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV]

I was a fan of those Lakers, too, and I just can't get past the, frankly, 
stupid and unnecessary tinkering with history in the name of creating a 
(badly-told) story. The most egregious examples in the latest episode were 
that, despite the show claiming that the first Lakers/Celtics game that 
year was played in Boston around Christmas, the teams had already played at 
the Forum, and LA had won handily. Even the game they did create had the 
wrong score and the wrong outcome (a tie-breaking free throw vs. a 
"dramatic" last-second shot). 

In addition, the show's conceit was that the Lakers were reeling under 
Westhead's leadership, when they had just won something like 10 of 14 at 
the time they went into Boston -- in February, not December. 

Even something as simple as the team's flirtation with Elgin Baylor was 
that he would take Riley's place, not Westhead.

If they can't get even those basics right, they have no business painting 
the rest as even remotely factual.

After this disaster and "Don't Look Up," I'm starting to wonder if Will 
Ferrell was the brains of the partnership, after all. (Which, if true, is a 
very, very low bar.)

--Dave Sikula

On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 8:03:30 AM UTC-7 PGage wrote:

> The list of things I am actually an expert on is very small; one of the 
> items on that list is the Lakers in general, and the Showtime era in 
> particular. I actually am enjoying the HBO series, even though Kareem is my 
> favorite athlete of all time, and Jerry West one of my childhood heroes. 
>
> Kareem, who has become one of the most thoughtful and insightful of public 
> intellectuals, is still not exactly high on the sense of humor scale, and I 
> think does not get McKay’s style or tone. Winning Time exaggerates Kareem’s 
> more surly personality traits in the pre-Magic days, and does not 
> sufficiently contextualizing them, but it is in the ballpark. 
>
> But it’s portrayal of West is more puzzlingly extreme and distorted. West 
> was (and is) extremely intense, but it is fueled more by pathological and 
> self destructive anxiety, not insecurity or assholitry. I guess McKay just 
> wanted a comic foil, but it’s kind of mean spirited to leave such a 
> negatively defining imprint on such an important and tragically unhappy 
> figure.
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 6:57 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
> tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> The Lakers greats took different paths to do so... West fired off a nasty 
>> letter to Adam McKay and HBO calling for legal retraction of his portrayal, 
>> while "Cap" on his (paywalled) blog generally knocked the "bland 
>> characterization" and questioned how it "turn[ed West] into a Wile E. 
>> Coyote character"...
>>
>>
>> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/jerry-west-winning-time-demands-retraction-1235236494/
>>
>> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-slams-winning-time-boring-dishonest-1235235529/
>>  (links)
>>
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