Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Ben Scripps
Once or twice a season, I'll drop in for an episode. I typically go in with the same expectations I have with SNL: tired, unoriginal, past its prime, treading water. Unlike SNL, I usually come out thinking it was better than I expected, but still nothing I need to have back in my life on a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Doug Eastick
I have not watched a current season episode in a least a decade. /Doug east...@mcd.on.ca On Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 19:08 Kevin M. wrote: > Is anyone in this group still watching new episodes of The Simpsons? I’ve > always liked the show, but I feel like I’ve watched enough of it. On rare >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tay-Tay = yooge ratings, even in the NFL

2023-11-22 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Commissioner Goodell (for better or worse) weighs in on the couple's influence on the league, among other topics, with "CBS Mornings"... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nfl-commissioner-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-romance-1235675409/ (link), or, to go straight to the 'toob,

[TV orNotTV] Re: You Knew It Was Coming...

2023-11-22 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The THR interview with ...*The Challenge*'s execs addresses things like the freezing conditions, why one game was omitted, and the whole process of boiling down footage of hundreds of contestants into hour-long-or-less episodes...

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
I do catch up on episodes every few months (I'll probably watch the current season so far over the holiday weekend), but it's not the kind of appointment television it would have been for me up until a decade or so ago. I'm making no guarantees of quality, but I think episodes like Treehouse of

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Kevin M.
Is anyone in this group still watching new episodes of The Simpsons? I’ve always liked the show, but I feel like I’ve watched enough of it. On rare occasions, I’ll dig back into the “classic” episodes from the first decade or so, but I don’t think I’m missing much if I choose to not watch let

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Jim Ellwanger
“The Simpsons” has already been airing new episodes this season, so that’s not really a season premiere, more like “a return after ‘Grimsburg’ has been in its regular time slot for a while.”Sent from my iPhoneOn Nov 22, 2023, at 10:49 AM, Tom Wolper wrote:I was a bit thrown by no mention of The

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
I think it didn't help with the audience when the show left BBC America for the Road & Track channel. David On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 12:33:57 PM PST, Kevin M. wrote: I thought the late Sabine Schmitz was a great presenter on the series, but nobody else was able to conjure

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread Kevin M.
I thought the late Sabine Schmitz was a great presenter on the series, but nobody else was able to conjure a fraction of the chemistry of the big trio, no matter how hard they tried. And they tried hard. On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:29 PM M-D November wrote: > I'll be honest, I didn't even

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread M-D November
I'll be honest, I didn't even realize the flagship show was still running. I know it continued after the Clarkson/Hammond/May exodus, but I quickly lost interest in it. On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 1:39:08 PM UTC-5 John Edwards wrote: > The story acting as if “Freddie” is his real name

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Tom Wolper
I was a bit thrown by no mention of The Simpsons so I went to the Fox press release to see what was going on. The new season will premiere on February 18. https://www.foxflash.com/releases/view/fox-announces-premiere-dates-for-new-and-returning-series-to-launch-winter-2024 On Wed, Nov 22, 2023

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread John Edwards
The story acting as if “Freddie” is his real name is hilarious to me. (It’s Andrew) He’s made a few public appearances this summer, as he was getting back into coaching cricket, and it looks like he still has some way to go to recover. On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:51 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread Kevin M.
Wait wait wait… are you saying it is unsafe for amateurs to drive cars really fast? On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 9:51 AM Mark Jeffries wrote: > The long-running (over 45 years!) automobile show has been taken out of > production by the Beeb following an October 22 high-speed crash involving > host

[TV orNotTV] 'Top Gear' Put on Hiatus by BBC

2023-11-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
The long-running (over 45 years!) automobile show has been taken out of production by the Beeb following an October 22 high-speed crash involving host Freddie Flintoff, of which BBC Studios, the for-profit division that actually produces the show and most other in-house productions, had to pay

[TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
It always says something when there's only one night of all-live action scripted programming on the schedule and it won't be until March. Meanwhile, according to Too Much TV, Fox's post-strikes schedule begins similar to the current schedule on Tues. Jan. 2 with the new game show from "Voice"

[TV orNotTV] Eagles-Chiefs gets best ratings in 27 years

2023-11-22 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Over 29 million viewers checked out the MNF matchup across all platforms with it, the most since a 1996 Dallas-Green Bay clash... the mark will likely be topped by the late-afternoon Thanksgiving meeting, Washington at Dallas, THR suggested...

[TV orNotTV] NFL flexing next weekend

2023-11-22 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The deadline for the MNF game (Cincinnati at Jacksonville) being switched, was Monday (20), and it remains where it is... two CBS games, Carolina at Tampa Bay and Denver at Houston, switch time slots, latter to 1, former to 4...