Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Star Trek Discovery complaints

I disagree on that last point. While the production design has to look sufficiently futuristic, if "Discovery" is set in the prime timeline, there has to be some continuity connecting it to TOS and/or "Enterprise". And to that end, "Enterprise" actually did a really nice job of creating a

[TV orNotTV] OT: Trump threatens to sue Bloom County

Admittedly, I haven't verified the accuracy, but if it's fake, it's also funny. Letter from Trump's lawyers: https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1577899202240827/?type=3 Response from Berkeley Breathed:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hannity the next to go at FoxNews?

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:43 PM, PGage wrote: > I suspect Huckabee's show will be plenty religious... > Some of the "Christian" man's religious tweets: Proud of @*realDonaldTrump* for telling NATO deadbeats to pay up or shut up. Dems

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hannity the next to go at FoxNews?

USAA pulling ads from Hannity's Fox News show. NEW YORK (AP) - Financial services firm USAA is adding itself to the list of companies that have pulled advertising from Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show. But the company that caters to members of the U.S. military and their families says the move

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hannity the next to go at FoxNews?

I suspect Huckabee's show will be plenty religious... On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:17 AM Bob Jersey wrote: > > Kevin M., yesterday (24): > >> >> Ex-Gov Huckabee isn't waiting for any possible departures... he's signed > to do a show >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Corrie 2-nil Piers

Why isn't Morgan in jail for the whole wiretapping thing? Why doesn't everyone who encounters Morgan punch him in the face and/or kick him in the nuts? On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 5:19 PM Brad Beam wrote: > Two actors from Manchester-based “Coronation Street” made a >

[TV orNotTV] Corrie 2-nil Piers

Two actors from Manchester-based "Coronation Street" made a previously-booked appearance on ITV's "Good Morning Britain" Tuesday morning. Connie Hyde and Sally Dynevor - whose character stands as an independent on the suburban Weatherfield council - acknowledged the events of the previous night

[TV orNotTV] NBC gets musical schedule in sync, says bye-bye "Bye" (for now)

With J-Lo working on "Shades of Blue," "The World of Dance," and a Vegas residency - as well as a jam-packed musical 4Q ("A Christmas Story" and "The Little Mermaid") elsewhere on the tube - NBC has decided to put "Bye Bye Birdie" back on the shelf and focus on its April Fools' Day production of

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: National news breaks at 5 PM

> On May 25, 2017, at 4:04 PM, daniel anderson > wrote: > > I've always wondered; do the networks sometimes interrupt local news to do a > bulletin? Do they have a countdown to alert stations? Yes -- if they feel it necessary to do a mandatory special report,

[TV orNotTV] Re: National news breaks at 5 PM

I've always wondered; do the networks sometimes interrupt local news to do a bulletin? Do they have a countdown to alert stations? On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 5:02:15 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: > > The thread started in another thread about James Corden. A reporter from > Talking Points Memo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Star Trek Discovery complaints

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:43 AM, M-D November wrote: > One of the sites I read on a daily basis (io9, I think) did a breakdown of > the Discovery upfront trailer, and it looks like the ship & uniforms we see > are primarily from a 24th century (post-TNG era) ship, not from

[TV orNotTV] National news breaks at 5 PM

The thread started in another thread about James Corden. A reporter from Talking Points Memo talked to the editors of the NYT and Washington Post to ask why the big stories always break late in the afternoon. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/why-evening-bombshell-reports-keep-happening -- -- TV

[TV orNotTV] Re: Hannity the next to go at FoxNews?

Kevin M., yesterday (24): > > He is doubling down on his defense of covering the baseless Seth Rich > conspiracy theory, after the Rich family begged him to stop and begged him > not to have fellow conspirator "Kim Dot Com" on his show to fan the flames. > FoxNews itself pulled all the Seth

Re: [TV orNotTV] ICYMI: Corden's Opening Last Night

On the political side of things, I remember lamentations during the campaigns about how the big investigative bombshells from newspapers seemed to always become public around midnight Eastern because the NYT, WaPo, et al wouldn't put those stories on the web until the print editions went to press.