[TV orNotTV] Does The Amazing Race seem a little meaner this season? (SPOILERS)

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Timko
I think this season of The Amazing Race is the best they've had in a long time. Oddly enough, there were no major villains to root against, only minor ones with the last for me eliminated last night. It started with an immediate elimination. Last week you had a team unable to finish a challenge

[TV orNotTV] Re: White Collar won't give you the blues

2009-11-02 Thread Karla Robinson
Well, with Leno on at 10, the prime time real estate on NBC is pretty slim pickings right now.. From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvorno...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason Carpio Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:56 PM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: White

[TV orNotTV] Re: Does The Amazing Race seem a little meaner this season? (SPOILERS)

2009-11-02 Thread David Lynch
I think the ladies had the same problem with the golf that they had with the gong - not having a lot of brute strength combined with not applying enough leverage to get the maximum force out of what strength they do have. I think they were also the smallest out of any of the competitors; the two

[TV orNotTV] Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
About the press, the affiliates, Dave... http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/366971-Jay_Leno_Talks_Back_An_Exclusive_Interview_With_B_C.php -- BOB --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread MrBuddwing
On Nov 2, 11:05 am, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: About the press, the affiliates, Dave... http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/366971-Jay_Leno_Talks_Back_A... Can't claim to be one of Leno's biggest fans, but I've always respected his clear, sane view of himself and show

[TV orNotTV] Charlie Logan lives!!

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
And he'll be back on '24' this coming season to help the current prez deal with 'an escalating international diplomatic crisis', sez Nellie: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i422dde68f61e91f20245ee9f0b3e0e98 -- BOB

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Mark J.
On Nov 2, 10:08 am, MrBuddwing mrbuddw...@aol.com wrote: On Nov 2, 11:05 am, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: About the press, the affiliates, Dave... http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/366971-Jay_Leno_Talks_Back_A... Can't claim to be one of Leno's biggest fans, but

[TV orNotTV] TNT may announce 'Southland' pickup today

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
NY Times: No night yet, but the Time Warner web will show all of the initial season, most of which never made it to NBC: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02tnt.html?ref=media -- BOB --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV)

[TV orNotTV] LO-CI gets female captain

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio succeeds Eric Bogosian... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i422dde68f61e91f245b448122f894b5d -- BOB --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message

[TV orNotTV] Re: TNT may announce 'Southland' pickup today

2009-11-02 Thread Jon Delfin
Confirmed: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-11-02-tnt-southland_N.htm On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: NY Times: No night yet, but the Time Warner web will show all of the initial season, most of which never made it to NBC:

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote: On Nov 2, 10:08 am, MrBuddwing mrbuddw...@aol.com wrote: On Nov 2, 11:05 am, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: About the press, the affiliates, Dave...

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
Mark J., to MrBuddwing and moi: I'm just amazed how much the comments are pro-Leno and anti-Letterman and other hosts for political reasons.  Did this page get Drudged? Yep...right under the yooge cruise ship... -- BOB --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV

[TV orNotTV] Report: Hulu will not go pay-only

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Wolper
http://www.macworld.com/article/143606/2009/11/hulu_nopay.html Excerpt: The earlier remarks on Hulu's pay plans came from News Corp.’s Deputy Chairman, the alliteratively named Chase Carey, who said at a conference last month that Hulu might have to turn to a subscription model to start pulling

[TV orNotTV] Re: Report: Hulu will not go pay-only

2009-11-02 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Tom Wolper wrote: The earlier remarks on Hulu's pay plans came from News Corp.’s Deputy Chairman, the alliteratively named Chase Carey, who said at a conference last month that Hulu might have to turn to a subscription model to start pulling in the dough. Chase

[TV orNotTV] Re: Leno's First 7 Weeks

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:22 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2009/10/jay-leno-may-be-pulling-down-11-pm-ratings-for-wflach-8.html WFLA isn't alone. according to the New York Post: Ratings for late newscasts at NBC affiliates in 44 of the top 56 metered

[TV orNotTV] Re: Leno's First 7 Weeks

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Rhodes
But Deggans does write: For example, while WFLA's 11 p.m. ratings have fallen, rival WTSP-Ch. 10 has seen its 11 p.m. ratings rise 46 percent, likely due to stronger ratings for its popular 10 p.m. dramas such as *CSI: Miami *and *The Mentalist.* * * So it can't just be because of the election.

[TV orNotTV] Re: Report: Hulu will not go pay-only

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Tom Wolper wrote: The earlier remarks on Hulu's pay plans came from News Corp.’s Deputy Chairman, the alliteratively named Chase Carey, who said at a conference last month that Hulu

[TV orNotTV] Re: SGU: Water

2009-11-02 Thread M-D November
I'm not entirely sure that's strictly true. It's not technically true that a PLANET is required, but the stargate (or, more properly, the DHD) has to be able to determine its position in space in order to establish a connection with the rest of the network - like an interstellar IP address. The

[TV orNotTV] Re: SGU: Water

2009-11-02 Thread David Risner
You don't need to torrent SGU: Water to watch it. It is available on syfy.com: http://www.syfy.com/rewind/index.php?__source=Syfy_Global_Nav --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed

[TV orNotTV] Re: TNT may announce 'Southland' pickup today

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote: Does this confirm that TNT is only going to be showing episodes already produced? I suppose it is unlikely they will pay for new episodes... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ TV or Not TV The Smartest

[TV orNotTV] Re: Does The Amazing Race seem a little meaner this season? (SPOILERS)

2009-11-02 Thread Bradford
The gals in the original rolling the hay challenge didn't have a problem with the challenge physically. The problem was that, for one reason or another, they contestant doing the challenge never spotted any of the clues that were hidden inside the bundles. So although it was like trying to

[TV orNotTV] Comcast Takeover of NBC-Universal

2009-11-02 Thread Klaatu
Questions on this: Comcast taking over NBC-Universal? What about anti-trust laws? Didn't the feds break up Paramount in the 1950's for owning both the production (movie studio) and outlets (theaters)? Also, Isn't there some FCC regulation about this as well? I wonder if the other

[TV orNotTV] Re: TNT may announce 'Southland' pickup today

2009-11-02 Thread David Lynch
What I've read is that they're going to see how the 13 already-produced episodes do in the ratings before deciding. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 18:23, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote: Does this confirm that TNT is only going to be

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM, MrBuddwing mrbuddw...@aol.com wrote: On Nov 2, 11:05 am, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: About the press, the affiliates, Dave... http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/366971-Jay_Leno_Talks_Back_A... Can't claim to be one of Leno's biggest

[TV orNotTV] Re: Leno's First 7 Weeks

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Rhodes srho...@gmail.com wrote: But Deggans does write: For example, while WFLA's 11 p.m. ratings have fallen, rival WTSP-Ch. 10 has seen its 11 p.m. ratings rise 46 percent, likely due to stronger ratings for its popular 10 p.m. dramas such as CSI:

[TV orNotTV] Re: Leno's First 7 Weeks

2009-11-02 Thread televisiongirl
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Steve Timko steveti...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if the ratings for 11 p.m. news continue to decline. If they do, I don't think affiliate station managers will be shy about pointing that

[TV orNotTV] Re: Comcast Takeover of NBC-Universal

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
Inside a Broadcasting Cable piece on upcoming financial reports from media giants, including Comcast on Wednesday, is a confirmation from a 'Wall Street player' that the cabler was inviting bankers to advise them on unloading NBC and its OOs.

[TV orNotTV] Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
Game 4 averaged 22.8 million viewers, almost half again as much as last year; the runover from 4:00 pigskin helped Fox win the overall and A18-49 derbies; the Peacock's pigskin substitute, the Nic Cage theatrical 'National Treasure', was kept from the bottom by CBS' later drammers...

[TV orNotTV] Re: Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread M-D November
How is it that FOX had a double-header (followed by baseball), while CBS NBC had no games at all? Was this just a scheduling anomaly? On Nov 2, 8:47 pm, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: Game 4 averaged 22.8 million viewers, almost half again as much as last year; the runover from

[TV orNotTV] Southland stuff

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
TNT is at least considering un-bleeping the NBC episodes... they've already done 'MA'-rated shows, why not? http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/02/will-tnt-allow-the-cursing-in-southland-to-air-unbleeped/32374 And, an identified source tells Ausiello, episodes will be somewhat lengthened to allow

[TV orNotTV] Another star daddy for NCIS... RJ

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
The 150th ep of the CBS procedural, if nothing else, will be remembered for introducing Tony DiNozzo's pop, to be played by one Robert Wagner... oddly, portrayed in a telemovie once by Michael Weatherly... http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/11/02/ncis-exclusive-robert-wagner-to-play-tonys-dad/

[TV orNotTV] Re: Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread Pete Ahles
M-D November wrote: How is it that FOX had a double-header (followed by baseball), while CBS NBC had no games at all? Was this just a scheduling anomaly? CBS had a single game. (1 pm in the East coast). The Sunday night game has always taken the week off for the first weekend of the

[TV orNotTV] Re: Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:55 PM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote: How is it that FOX had a double-header (followed by baseball), while CBS NBC had no games at all?  Was this just a scheduling anomaly? On Nov 2, 8:47 pm, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: Game 4 averaged

[TV orNotTV] Re: Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread Brad Beam
- Original Message - From: M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com How is it that FOX had a double-header (followed by baseball), while CBS NBC had no games at all? Was this just a scheduling anomaly? According to the Wiki article, it has been NBC practice to not air a Sunday night

[TV orNotTV] Re: Ratings: On a Sunday night without NFL, World Series cleans up

2009-11-02 Thread Bob in Jersey
Pete Ahles, in part, to M-D November: CBS had a single game. (1 pm in the East coast). It could have been at 1 or 4. Philly, because the Eagles home game was at 1, got Oakland @ San Diego, while Tennessee @ Jacksonville went to their cities as well as St. Louis and Indy. -- BOB

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/366935-NBC_Affiliates_Standing_by_Jay_Leno_Show_.php This is a related story on BC about how the affiliates feel about the JLS. The title is a bit misleading, unless standing by the show

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: The reason NBC is confident in their all-Leno-all-the-time approach is because NBC has made a sound economic choice (albeit a horrible creative choice), and no affiliate can argue with fiscal strategy. NBC has the

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:37 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: The reason NBC is confident in their all-Leno-all-the-time approach is because NBC has made a sound economic choice (albeit a horrible creative choice), and

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jay talks back

2009-11-02 Thread PGage
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen the numbers you posted, but the ratings only tell a part of the story. Assume Jay's show does, as the stories indicate, cost about $300k per episode to produce (some say more, some say less, but that seems to