[TV orNotTV] Lewis Black wrapping up his touring career

[Kevin M.]

After more than three decades in standup, 75, Black is stepping back.


https://www.lewisblack.com/pages/tour-tickets


https://deadline.com/2023/11/lewis-blacks-retirement-goodbye-yeller-brick-road-tour-1235601386/amp/

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: It’s Over

[Steve Timko]

Interesting opposition to the contract. No protection for the minions.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRv6y9dH/

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 5:44 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> And actors will be hitting the awards circuit with the fury of
> football linemen...
> https://deadline.com/2023/11/actors-strike-over-oscars-awards-1235593741/ 
> (link)
> B
>
> PGage, Nov 8th:
>
>
> “After 118 days of the actors guild being out on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the
> studios have reached a tentative deal on a new contract that could see
> Hollywood up and running again within weeks. The strike will be over as of
> 12:01 am PT November 9, we hear.”
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Re: [TV orNotTV] SNL’s Baldwin Choice

[Kevin M.]

Was Baldwin holding a gun in the sketch?

Because that would’ve been f-ing funny!

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 5:41 PM PGage  wrote:

> I noticed this morning that there had been a new SNL last weekend, which I
> hadn’t seen, so decided to watch it. Nothing really remarkable, except
> further confirmation of my age. It’s not just that I don’t get most of the
> cultural references, but I don’t even get the comedy vocabulary and grammar
> and logic. The audience is laughing, but I can’t even decode what part of
> what we just saw it was supposed to be the joke. I don’t mean this as a
> criticism of the show perhaps it really was quite funny. I’m just so old
> that I’m actually an alien in the world that SNL targets. Of course Lorne
> Michaels is significantly older than me, so I guess kudos to him for being
> able to keep working in that universe.
>
> What was remarkable was at the very end of a, from what I could tell,
> pedestrian and indecipherable Sketch, Alec Baldwin appears for an extremely
> brief cameo.
>
> I have not been militant in my pre-judgment of Baldwin’s criminal
> liability; perhaps he is guilty of manslaughter of some kind, though my
> inclination is to suspect the prosecutors office of being out to nail a
> celebrity hide to their wall. However, at best he was involved in some
> major bad judgment, both as producer and actor that resulted in the death
> of one and serious injury to another. Short of conviction of a serious
> crime I don’t know that he needs to be permanently banned from television,
> but, really? To force him into a minor and totally irrelevant sketch while
> he’s waiting to hear if he is going to be tried for manslaughter just seems
> like bad taste. I can see that his friends at SNL  Ishtar want to show
> their support for him, but maybe a Twitter post would’ve sufficed.
>
> It did seem like at least one of the members of the singing group that
> night gave him the cold shoulder when he tried to come over and gladhand
> her after the good nights, not sure if any of the regular cast had
> reservations.
>
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[TV orNotTV] SNL’s Baldwin Choice

[PGage]

I noticed this morning that there had been a new SNL last weekend, which I
hadn’t seen, so decided to watch it. Nothing really remarkable, except
further confirmation of my age. It’s not just that I don’t get most of the
cultural references, but I don’t even get the comedy vocabulary and grammar
and logic. The audience is laughing, but I can’t even decode what part of
what we just saw it was supposed to be the joke. I don’t mean this as a
criticism of the show perhaps it really was quite funny. I’m just so old
that I’m actually an alien in the world that SNL targets. Of course Lorne
Michaels is significantly older than me, so I guess kudos to him for being
able to keep working in that universe.

What was remarkable was at the very end of a, from what I could tell,
pedestrian and indecipherable Sketch, Alec Baldwin appears for an extremely
brief cameo.

I have not been militant in my pre-judgment of Baldwin’s criminal
liability; perhaps he is guilty of manslaughter of some kind, though my
inclination is to suspect the prosecutors office of being out to nail a
celebrity hide to their wall. However, at best he was involved in some
major bad judgment, both as producer and actor that resulted in the death
of one and serious injury to another. Short of conviction of a serious
crime I don’t know that he needs to be permanently banned from television,
but, really? To force him into a minor and totally irrelevant sketch while
he’s waiting to hear if he is going to be tried for manslaughter just seems
like bad taste. I can see that his friends at SNL  Ishtar want to show
their support for him, but maybe a Twitter post would’ve sufficed.

It did seem like at least one of the members of the singing group that
night gave him the cold shoulder when he tried to come over and gladhand
her after the good nights, not sure if any of the regular cast had
reservations.

Sent from Gmail Mobile

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[TV orNotTV] Young Sheldon: The Final Season

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

S7 begins Feb 15th, and concludes with a full hour May 16th...
https://deadline.com/2023/11/young-sheldon-end-season-7-cbs-canceled-series-finale-date-1235612167/
 (link)
(See a separate post for all of CBS' post-strike premieres)
B

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Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

[Doug Eastick]

I'd like to think that he's peeved "that a movie displaying the beautiful
geography of the southern USA, and innovative thinking has been killed by a
studio"

(My words, not his)


/Doug
east...@mcd.on.ca

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 19:10 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> A US Congress-member (not from California, but San Antonio TX) who called
> for DOJ investigation of WBD when the write-downs started, did so again on
> X late Monday...
>
> https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-joaquin-castro-congressman-federal-probe-1235612061/
>  (link)
> B
>
> Dave Sikula, to PGage, Nov 14th:
>
> I'm the last one to defend Zaslov, but I found Frazier's original article
> to be strained at best, and Chuck Jones, who probably knew the characters
> better than anyone, realized that they were best seen in seven-minute
> doses, and rarely at that. An hour and a half of it would probably outstay
> its welcome.
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Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

A US Congress-member (not from California, but San Antonio TX) who called 
for DOJ investigation of WBD when the write-downs started, did so again on 
X late Monday...
https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-joaquin-castro-congressman-federal-probe-1235612061/
 (link)
B

Dave Sikula, to PGage, Nov 14th:

I'm the last one to defend Zaslov, but I found Frazier's original article 
to be strained at best, and Chuck Jones, who probably knew the characters 
better than anyone, realized that they were best seen in seven-minute 
doses, and rarely at that. An hour and a half of it would probably outstay 
its welcome.

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[TV orNotTV] Reporter Claims Fox Fired Him for Not Backing Trump Election Claims, Is Suing Them

[Mark Jeffries]

Former Capitol Hill reporter Jason Donner claims that Fox News was 
"purging" anyone who didn't want to follow the "election was rigged" claims 
of Trump--he said that on Jan. 6 while he was sequestered in a Fox News 
booth and heard the net say that the insurrection was "peaceful," he 
immediately called New York and said, "I don’t want to hear any of this 
f-g s--- on our air ever again because you’re gonna get us all killed.":

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fox-news-reporter-jason-donner-sues-saying-fired-lies-2020-election-rcna125016

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Re: [TV orNotTV] A Q with Brian Stelter about his new Fox News book - Poynter

[Kevin M.]

Worth noting that CNN helped Trump quite a bit, too

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:25 AM Steve Timko  wrote:

> A Q with Brian Stelter about his new Fox News bookIn ‘Network of Lies,’
> Stelter’s meticulous reporting looks at the role Fox News played in Donald
> Trump’s desire to stay in power.
>
>
>
> https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/brian-stelter-network-lies-fox-news-donald-trump-book/
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[TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Means Scripted Back on CBS

[Mark Jeffries]

The BIg Game on Feb. 10 will be the Eye's official call for the return of 
scripted programming, with the new Justin Hartley action drama tracker 
getting the coveted post-Super Bowl slot as originally announced. The 
following night, the schedules start to return to normal 
("Neighborhood"/"Abishola"/"NCIS Original"/"NCIS Hawaii" on Monday, Dick 
Wolf FBI Night on Tuesday, "Young Sheldon"/"Ghosts USA"/"So Help Me Todd" 
and the "Good Wife/Fight" spinoff "Elsbeth" on Thursday, "SWAT"/"Fire 
Country"/"Blue Bloods" on Friday and "Equalizer" after "60 Minutes," 
"Tracker" in its regular slot and "CSI Reboot" on Sunday). In the only 
night remaining the same, "Survivor" and "TAR" will play 90-minute episodes 
on Wednesday (meaning that since a season of "TAR" is on hold because they 
were made in the hour format, either they taped another season or Van 
Munster is reformatting the season in the can to the 90-minute format), 
with "Survivor" starting in late February with two weeks of two-hour 
episodes:

https://www.thewrap.com/cbs-2023-2024-winter-schedule/

And the Kathy Bates "Matlock" reboot and the Damon Wayans pere et fil 
sitcom "Poppa's House" have been postponed to the fall--if you want to see 
a Wayans on CBS before then, hope that "Raid the Cage" with Damon Jr. gets 
renewed.

And speaking of the Big Game, after that initial promo last week with Drew 
Barrymore, all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob and some people 
I didn't recognize, CBS/Nick/Paramount+ hasn't run any "Super Bowl 
Countdown" promos since then, unless they're running only on sports for now.

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[TV orNotTV] A Q with Brian Stelter about his new Fox News book - Poynter

[Steve Timko]

A Q with Brian Stelter about his new Fox News bookIn ‘Network of Lies,’
Stelter’s meticulous reporting looks at the role Fox News played in Donald
Trump’s desire to stay in power.


https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/brian-stelter-network-lies-fox-news-donald-trump-book/

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Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

['Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV]

I'm the last one to defend Zaslov, but I found Frazier's original article 
to be strained at best, and Chuck Jones, who probably knew the characters 
better than anyone, realized that they were best seen in seven-minute 
doses, and rarely at that. An hour and a half of it would probably outstay 
its welcome.

--Dave Sikula

On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 11:13:31 AM UTC-8 PGage wrote:

Add to that Wall Street now seems to mostly care about debt reduction, and 
rewards studios and streamers immediately with a bump in their stock price 
when any significant debt reduction is announced. So Zaz pays down his 
enormous debt load and gets a stock bump in basically real time. 

The Studio heads were always about making money, but say what you want 
about the old guard, they also were to some degree interested in making 
good or popular movies. That is in no way true of guys like Zaz, who are 
100% in the money making business, not show business. 

Sent from Gmail Mobile


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