Re: [TV orNotTV] Even Harvey Levin isn't immune from toxicity allegations

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Wolper
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 7:03 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Bernadette Zilio, 27, worked at TMZ and sister site TooFab until this > year, when she said she got canned "after she complained to HR about a > culture of toxicity and sexism." Levin and two execs

Re: [TV orNotTV] Your RNC Headliners: Trump, Trump, Trump, and Trump

2020-08-25 Thread PGage
Okay, so the Guilfoyle speech seemed like kind of bad TV I kind of thought Trump’s Apprentice producers were supposed to prevent. This Pardon video is exactly the kind of bad TV I assumed they were supposed to deliver.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Kimberly Guilfoyle Shouts Unhinged RNC Speech at the Top of Her Lungs

2020-08-25 Thread Joe Hass
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 21:27 PGage wrote: > (I see now that I bogarted Joe’s thread in the same NYT article, > apologies). > This ain't the first time two people have come knocking with similar takes on the same topic, and I'm reasonably confident it won't be the last. No apology needed, good

Re: [TV orNotTV] Kimberly Guilfoyle Shouts Unhinged RNC Speech at the Top of Her Lungs

2020-08-25 Thread PGage
So, this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I inquired what the Apprentice producers were like, in terms of style and competence (I see now that I bogarted Joe’s thread in the same NYT article, apologies). As Bob notes, this speech was a complete and total train wreck, I think even

[TV orNotTV] Even Harvey Levin isn't immune from toxicity allegations

2020-08-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Bernadette Zilio, 27, worked at TMZ and sister site TooFab until this year, when she said she got canned "after she complained to HR about a culture of toxicity and sexism." Levin and two execs of TooFab are named in the Federal-and-state complaint, which suggests that any "investigation" HR

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ratings: "Yellowstone" finale tops all scripted series this year

2020-08-25 Thread Kevin M.
I bought the first two seasons of Yellowstone on iTunes, but I’m not caught up on them On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:50 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > And Paramount Network is what used to be Spike TV, The New TNN and the > Nashville Network. It's meant to be their home for "premium content" but >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ratings: "Yellowstone" finale tops all scripted series this year

2020-08-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
And Paramount Network is what used to be Spike TV, The New TNN and the Nashville Network. It's meant to be their home for "premium content" but outside of "Yellowstone" they either have had shows bomb (the series based on "Heathers," which was announced for TV Land but moved to PAR and get burned

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NotTV, IYC: POTUS backs down on TikTok

2020-08-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
TikTok users left so many one-star reviews on Plump's 2020 campaign app that Apple had to reset the app's rating at the campaign's request... https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/trumps-official-campaign-app-had-to-reset-its-rating-after-being-trolled-by-tiktokers/

[TV orNotTV] Kevin Hart embarrassed by another tweet

2020-08-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Not his own, but NBC News using an image of him to report that multiple-Olympic-medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt tested positive for the virus... "I am... no longer doing comedy due to my Olympic training schedule,” he joked on IG...

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Tim Allen and Richard Karn, together again

2020-08-25 Thread Kevin M.
Tim Allen probably makes good prison wine... maybe work that into the show somehow? On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:30 AM M-D November wrote: > Episode 1 - border walls on the cheap, perhaps? > > On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 11:42:47 AM UTC-4 Bob Jersey wrote: > >> The "Home Improvement" actors

[TV orNotTV] Re: Tim Allen and Richard Karn, together again

2020-08-25 Thread M-D November
Episode 1 - border walls on the cheap, perhaps? On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 11:42:47 AM UTC-4 Bob Jersey wrote: > The "Home Improvement" actors lead "Assembly Required," "a competition > series which is sounding the call for those with a can-do attitude to take > back their sense of purpose

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ratings: "Yellowstone" finale tops all scripted series this year

2020-08-25 Thread Marti Lawrence
It's kind of like "Dallas" with cattle. Kevin Costner stars as wealthy patriarch John Dutton. He is head of a dysfunctional family and ended up in the season finale with a cliffhanger whose tagline is, "Who Shot J.D.?" It is set in Montana and the geography is gorgeous, the action scenes are

[TV orNotTV] Tim Allen and Richard Karn, together again

2020-08-25 Thread 'bobjersey' via TVorNotTV
The "Home Improvement" actors lead "Assembly Required," "a competition series which is sounding the call for those with a can-do attitude to take back their sense of purpose and awaken their inner builder."

[TV orNotTV] Kimberly Guilfoyle Shouts Unhinged RNC Speech at the Top of Her Lungs

2020-08-25 Thread Steve Timko
I watched the speech and it didn't work for me. I am trying to list the reasons why. No. 1 a speech like that needs an audience to react. Guilfoyle's shortcomings as an orator are amplified by the echoes of an empty auditorium. No. 2 is that she lacked sincerity. Think of all the great civil

[TV orNotTV] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Teaches News Literacy

2020-08-25 Thread Joe Hass
I was going to write up on here last week about how NBC News's twitter feed f'ed up royally during the DNC with a bullshit tweet on AOC during her procedural speech for Bernie Sanders. Instead, God bless her, AOC turned it into a teachable moment for *everyone* on being news literate in this day

[TV orNotTV] "West Wing" cast to reunite to get out the vote

2020-08-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
They'll redo the "Hartsfield's Landing" episode from Season 3 as a benefit for When We All Vote, co-chaired by Michelle Obama... https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/west-wing-reunion-special-hbo-max-1234747476/ (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ratings: "Yellowstone" finale tops all scripted series this year

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 7:38 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > "[A] full 1 million more viewers than the show’s previous largest > audience, and an impressive 84% increase on last season’s finale"... > > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Ellen DeGeneres is 'Notoriously One of the Meanest People in Hollywood,' Comedian Claims

2020-08-25 Thread Steve Timko
Ellen's show pulled from Australian TV. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a33753899/ellen-degeneres-show-removed-australia-channel-nine/ On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 12:47 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > More from that Monday Zoom call: staffers will