[TV orNotTV] The Houston Astros Did Something Amazing

2013-09-24 Thread Joe Hass
Their Sunday 9-2 loss to the Indians was bad enough to send them to 41 games behind Oakland in the American League West. But the fact the game was on against the Texans (who also were blown out 30-9 against the Should-Be-Named-Colts from Baltimore) along with the fact that DirecTV, Dish, U-Verse,

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Houston Astros Did Something Amazing

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
Great comment (emphasis added by moi): If I wanted to see all the sports content [I]'d want to watch, I'd need to buy two satellites, have a cable subscription, buy Roku or Apple TV, *and*subscribe to about 4 internet services. And 97 percent of the content I'd receive would be redundant and

[TV orNotTV] NCIS-N'Awlins?

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
Mark Harmon and Gary Glasberg are working on exactly that, Nellie sez... commenters still don't forgive their colleagues for the nonpickup of *Red* ... http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/ncis-spinoff-cbs-mark-harmon-new-orleans/ -- B. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You

[TV orNotTV] Re: Bird-flipping rapper still battling the NFL

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
IYC, she'll flip *you* off too: http://youtu.be/wyVh0O8DiCs Punk rockers want their name back, if you ask me... -- B. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send

[TV orNotTV] Army Wives to end

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
After seven seasons, Lifetime will wrap up the drama with a two-hour retrospective early next year. http://www.thewrap.com/lifetime-cancels-army-wives/ -- B. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not

[TV orNotTV] ESPN boss: I'm not worried about a la carte, or Olby

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
Cable is in no danger of de-bundling or significant decline, and The Woildwide Leadah isn't going to lead in that regard, said John Skipper at the TheGrill media conference run by TheWrap. On KO, “He has of course a track record of having a difficult relationship with his management. In this

[TV orNotTV] Angry Breaking Bad fans to get refunds from iTunes

2013-09-24 Thread Bob in Jersey
The company previously offered a Season Pass for “Season 5″ of the AMC drama at a cost of $22.99. But customers were irked — to put it nicely — when it turned out iTunes was not counting the final eight episodes, classified as “The Final Season,” in the price. They'll officially get credit,

[TV orNotTV] 'Bridge' Up for Season 2

2013-09-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
FX's Americanization of the Scandinavian drama series about border cops (the U.S.-Mexican border in our version) will return next summer with 13 more episodes: http://www.thewrap.com/the-bridge-renewed-for-season-2-by-fx/ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this

[TV orNotTV] Shales/Miller ESPN Book to Become Scripted Movie

2013-09-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
NBCU's arthouse arm Focus Features has bought the rights to ESPN: Those Guys Have All the Fun, the Tom Shales/James Andrew Miller oral history of the Worldwide Leader (which had been turned down by 20th Century Fox), with the producers of the screen version of 50 Shades of Gray involved (no

RE: [TV orNotTV] Shales/Miller ESPN Book to Become Scripted Movie

2013-09-24 Thread Brad Beam
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Jeffries OK, who plays what? Right off the bat, Nick Cannon plays Stuart Scott and I'm sure Olbermann would like to see Jason Bateman as him. Dan, Keith - discuss. (Casting decisions start at 8:25.)

[TV orNotTV] Re: Shales/Miller ESPN Book to Become Scripted Movie

2013-09-24 Thread Diner
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:51:07 PM UTC-4, Mark Jeffries wrote: http://www.thewrap.com/focus-acquires-espn-those-guys-have-all-the-fun-out-of-turnaround-from-fox-exclusive/ OK, who plays what? Right off the bat, Nick Cannon plays Stuart Scott and I'm sure Olbermann would like to

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Bridge' Up for Season 2

2013-09-24 Thread PGage
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote: FX's Americanization of the Scandinavian drama series about border cops (the U.S.-Mexican border in our version) will return next summer with 13 more episodes:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Shales/Miller ESPN Book to Become Scripted Movie

2013-09-24 Thread PGage
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote: NBCU's arthouse arm Focus Features has bought the rights to ESPN: Those Guys Have All the Fun, the Tom Shales/James Andrew Miller oral history of the Worldwide Leader (which had been turned down by 20th Century Fox),

[TV orNotTV] Quickie review: Trophy Wife

2013-09-24 Thread Kevin M.
Time for someone to roll up a newspaper, swat Brad Whitford on the nose with it, and say no in an authoritative voice. https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pilot/id689571430?i=704631130 -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because

[TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Dads

2013-09-24 Thread Kevin M.
If you have to keep jump cutting to eight different scenes in under four minutes to find the funny, you haven't found the funny. https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pilot/id686801210?i=701662164 -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message

[TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: The Blacklist

2013-09-24 Thread Kevin M.
Pilot fell just short of being a good story. I'll give it a couple episodes to improve. James Spader needs to stop slipping in and out of his Robert Loggia impersonation, however, or I'll have to stop watching. https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pilot/id686765477?i=710673198 -- Kevin M.